{"id":152,"date":"2006-12-20T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-12-20T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T14:52:35","slug":"travel-personalities-pt-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Travel Personalities, pt. ii"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/328161445\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" style=\"width: 278px; height: 408px\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/135\/328161445_b98f428a09.jpg\" width=\"278\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main thing I like about traveling is the people. That said I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily like ALL of the people all of the time, but everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a story and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious enough to want to hear it. The people that cause me to roll my eyes are not suffering personality flaws so much as they possess some unfortunate personal\/physical\/hygienic issue that I simply cannot overlook. Here are a few of the types of travelers that I try to keep an eye out for (continued from pt. i):<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The Bump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n Grinders:<\/strong> Simply put these are the people that stand so close to you when you are in line that they can read your passport number through your pants. This is largely cultural in nature. Latin Americans and Spaniards have a lower threshold for personal space. They are very affectionate, touchy-feely, and culturally comfortable with people standing very close, touching them and even jumping\/cutting lines. Uh, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Crazy.Black.Chick. with the emphasis on Crazy and Black, for this sidenote. Studies show that people of different cultures, races and sexes, tend to put more space between themselves when interacting,\u00c2\u00a0than when talking to someone of\u00c2\u00a0the same race, culture and gender. As an African American Female I like about 17 feet of clear space in all directions around me at all times, my Latin American amigos\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not so much. My remedy is to go on the offense. I now try to see how many different people I can touch or jostle at a time. And if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re cute\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6no, that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t me that pinched your bum bum.<\/div>\n<p>**Why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to hell: for pinching people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bum-bums!<\/p>\n<p>So you tell us about some of the people you&#8217;ve met on the road!<\/p>\n<p>To Be Continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The main thing I like about traveling is the people. That said I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily like ALL of the people all of the time, but everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a story and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious enough to want to hear it. The people that cause me to roll my eyes are not suffering personality flaws so much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Travel Personalities, pt. ii<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funchilde-isms","category-laughs","category-stories","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}