something else about tourists

This morning, I had a rohlik for breakfast, which is a little banana-shaped roll. Rohliky are very popular here. In fact, many consider them the most popular Czech food. So it's funny that as I walked down the street munching on my little roll, I felt like Ben Franklin. But then again, I always do when I buy tiny rolls or breads and eat them in the street. This is because, as anyone who's familiar with Ben Franklin and his autobiography remembers, when Ben gets to Motown Philly he only has money for bread and walks down the street giddily scarfing it down. If I'm remembering the passage correctly, I'm pretty sure he then gives some of the bread to a girl he wants to get with!

Thinking about frisky Ben Franklin somehow led me to thinking about time travel and how he might have a similar experience if he landed in 2007 Prague, because rohliky are so ubiquitous and cheap here.

I wrote a post a little while ago that mentioned people's annoyance with tourists and my thoughts about Ben Franklin made me realize that if and when time travel becomes possible, people will be SO annoyed with time-travel tourists. If locals get annoyed now when tourists have currency or navigational confusion, imagine the shitshow when cavemen are clubbing people riding skateboards in Manhattan or when X-men-like superhumans from the future start turning Prague waitresses into fireballs because they're unhappy with the service. Proponents of research into time-travel should probably have a good long think and assess their tolerance levels.