The things toursists say!

Skagway Alaska is nearly 100 percent tourism, which offers ample amount of jobs, opportunities and headaches. It's a love hate relationship with the average 40,000 tourists a week that visit Skagway. Love because the tourists offer everyone jobs and money and hate because they do stupid things. Here is the list of stupid things that were said to me or others this summer, enjoy!
(I didn't make any of these up, they are all true!)

Driver what is the elevation of Skagway? (Skagway is a port town)
What is the Temperature?
Is it "really" colder on the glaciers?
Does it snow in Alaska?
Why is it raining? (me) Because you're in a rain forest! (tourist) Really?
Do people really ski those mountains? They look way too steep?
What are the chances of it raining today? (Me) Sir this is Alaska, anything is possible.
While driving over the Skagway river bridge a tourist asks... Why is the ocean tide so high?
(Me) Sir that's a river! (Tourist) oh?
Is Skagway a "real" town or is it fake for us tourists?
Does Princess cruises own all of these stores?
What kind of rocks are those? (driver) It's granite carved by the glaciers. (tourist) What's granite?

One of our drivers was next to the Fraser Lakes in BC, Canada (several miles away from the ocean). While driving, another motor coach was heading the opposite direction. The other motor coach has huge printing of whales on it. The driver says, "Hey everyone look a whale!" As he looked into his mirror all of his tourists were smashed against the window looking at the lake. Driver says, "umm folks, jokes on me! First off the whale was a printing on the other bus and second that's a fresh water lake!

White pass railroad has to give safety annulments before each ride. They always emphasize safety with your fingers for many have been lost. An impatient husband was trying to get his wife into the train cart and while she walked through the door he slammed it, with one finger still in the door. Her finger was chopped off. Screaming downsized to shock where she eventually was laughing and making jokes about her one lost finger. This particular day had such bad weather that life flight could not get fly a helicopter, all medivac planes couldn't fly. She won her self (and husband) an ambulance ride to Whitehorse Canada (3 hours a way) and then a flight to Seattle. Expensive trip eh!
( I never heard if they saved her finger.)

Employee Jokes

We have an older couple that work for Holland America. The husband drives busses and the wife does Hollands finances and is also a Dock Rep. She helps with the madness on each dock where our shops dock. The wife was helping drivers park their motor coaches and her husband got on the radio and says "Hey, where do you want me to put this thing?" Wife says, "You shouldn't say that on the radio!"

During a driving meeting we were checking the oil, transmission fluid, antifreeze level, etc. Another employee asks, "So how do we check the gas level?"