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[Previous entry: "Nude bodypainted Spiderman"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Super deformed Star Wars figures"] 05/31/2002 Entry: "Tourists mistake homes for museums" Tourists mistake homes for museums. I think this just speaks volumes about tourist culture with all its fabricated trappings and easy to please shutterbugs. With tourist spots looking little more than just places with fancy crap on the walls is it such a surprise that tourists would might just one day end up in your own home? Look at your furniture and decorations, to someone its odd, exotic, quaint, provincial, etc. To you its just home. Conversely, an above-average home in a what you would consider an exotic place would have the same effect on you. [link] Few tourists are so confused or so bold as to walk right into private homes, but with thousands of visitors pouring into town every day, residents soon become accustomed to seeing people examining their homes and peering into windows. Rubin, who lived in her three-century-old Francis Street home for 54 years before moving into an apartment, said she enjoyed sitting on her porch with her cat and talking to tourists. "It happened all the time. People would walk up my steps and start toward the door, and I would have to tell them it was not a restaurant or museum," Rubin said. "I think they thought I was sitting there taking tickets or something."