No matter how much they've travelled even the most seasoned globetrotter is still susceptible to pulling a dumb stroke.
The internet's international jetsetters have spent the past 24 hours revealing their silliest travelling clangers on an online forum. And some of them will leave you with a palm print pressed into your forehead.
From getting locked in the toilet of a ferry on a 15-hour journey to being chased by ostriches in Patagonia, they've been there and done that.
The slew of revelations came in response to a Reddit user posting: 'I just locked myself out on the balcony of an Airbnb in a foreign country for three hours. What's the dumbest thing you've done while traveling?'
One of the quickest to comment was Karenet from Ottawa, who said: 'Locked myself in the bathroom of ferry cabin between Bari and Greece. Luckily it was only for about 10 minutes but I was really worried I would be stuck for the duration of the ferry (15+ hours).
![]() 'After I escaped and determined I had the four bed cabin to myself I asked two Americans who only paid for a seat if they wanted to stay in my room. I did it to be nice but mostly so they could save me if I got stuck again.'
Wazzabi_buzz felt punishing pain for his blunder: 'When I was seven I was at a restaurant in Japan and they were cooking all the food on a table in front of us. I'm pretty sure they call it a 'hot plate' or something like that.
'Well I decided it would be a good idea to put my hand onto the table why they were making a nice meal. Did not end well...'
The user wrote: 'I had a room in Slovenia where you walked in, there was a foyer and then a second door to the room. As I was walking into the room, a bee flew at me.
'I screamed, turned and ran, shut the door and locked myself in the little foyer with the bee who had followed me.'
After revealing he had been chased by an ostrich around a lakeside viewing platform in Patagonia, user Samwoolfe1 revealed how he found himself lost and alone in Mexico when he 'got on the wrong bus in Mexico due to a language barrier'.
He continued: 'Sat on the bus for way longer than the journey should have been. Got dropped off in some village in a completely different state.'
![]() Standing out as a tourist, Johnny Garisch from South Africa made an obvious mistake.
He wrote: 'I paid $50 to get two bags wrapped in plastic at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (Lusaka, Zambia). They added a 0 because they could tell I had no clue what the exchange rate was.'
Vocabulary globetrotter:环球旅行者 |
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