Cool Tourists, Cruel Tourist: November 24, 2018 in St. Augustine Florida Historic Area

Brian and I were proudly showing off our wonderful historic area to a visiting friend today on this beautiful day in St. Augustine.  At Charlotte and Cuna, some superficial arrogant condescending corporate-type in a lime green polo shirt opined stupidly and snarkily to his family that St. Augustine was "rundown."

Rundown?

The Ugly American Tacky Tourist doesn't know any more about historic preservation and authenticity than a hog, and proceeded to curse me out, emitting words I would never speak in front of my family.  He committed crimes, threatening bodily harm when I quietly disagreed, to our listing friend, with his asinine proposition that our historic area was "rundown,"

Dimwitted Ignorant Corporate Klansman proceeded to go all macho-pscyho, making an ass of himself all the way up Cuna Street.

I looked around and did not see SAPD, or else the weird white termagant-terrorist-tourist might have been arrested for impersonating a human being.  (Pugilistic Philistine was looking at the cool building that houses Crucial Coffee when he said "rundown").   What an oaf.  He can kiss my grits.  Pray for this simian member of the species Slobbus Americanus Vulgaris Suburbus.

As they say on Cape Cod, "some people make their own bad weather."

But a few minutes earlier, there was a lovely African-American couple at the Foot Soldiers Monument, told them about its history -- turned out they were from Jacksonville and did not know St. Augustine's Civil Rights History.  Proudly shared the story of our two civil rights monuments with them.  They were eager to learn and went to view the Andrew Young Monument that I pointed out to tem

Our Nation's Oldest City needs more tourists like the latter and fewer like the former.

Ignoranti, go home.

Cognosenti, come visit.

We need St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore.  Now.