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As a native New Yorker, I do my best to avoid tourist hotspots. Times Square, Rockefeller Center at Christmas, the zoo on free days. I just don’t go near them. Heading to the Acropolis Museum reminded me why.
It’s not just that there’s a ton of people all wanting to be in the exact same five-foot square to get the best picture. It’s the school groups with the teacher walking backward, not caring if she steps on you, just as long as none of her students go AWOL. And the mom who forgot that if she didn’t pack a juice box, her kid was going to have a meltdown, and now the kid’s realized there’s no juice box in sight so its DEFCON five tantrum time.
Then there are the retired dodderers who can’t seem to remember that anyone could be on a schedule, so they just meander while somehow blocki
