GUESS WHAT? I still hate "The Ducks"

[glasseye]

Amy said it best:

"With a hefty ticket fee of $25 or so dollars, this is probably the worst way we could have spend our money. The duck left the Space Needle area and drove around the congested city streets downtown at a tediously slow pace while the drive gave us inaccurate facts about Seattle and did seriously stupid things like played “Who Let the Dogs Out” while driving by an innocent woman walking her dog.

Its my understanding that some people from Seattle loathe the Ducks and I can clearly see why. The drivers tell ridiculous jokes about Starbucks on an endless basis and do nothing short of attempting to embarrass the people that live in this city."

http://theworldisfun.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/ride-the-ducks-or-dont-79/

I also hate how much diesel smoke they spew.

They're loud. They're dirty. They're extremely annoying.

If you come to Seattle, please, for the love of all that is sacred, do not ride the ducks.

Comments

[gwynnin.livejournal.com]

My aunt Sara was driving a duck for a while last summer. Don't know if she still is. She's, you know, who I would really want to be when I turn 19. If I was a girl.

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I really hate the duck!

[ootwoods.livejournal.com]

Do they hand out obnoxiously loud yellow plastic duck-billed shaped quackers to the kids? (think party favors, but more deafening)?

Philly Aqua-Ducks does.

And the kids have a hell of a good time.

They are no more dirty than the truck delivering your ecologically friendly, organically grown bean-sprouts to the co-op. }:)

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they've got the quackers. Mucho obnoxious. You have to buy them, I think.

I'm sure a certain set of people who ride the ducks enjoy it. They sure are annoying to those of us who actually live here though. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't comment on everyone walking around "GEE SEATTLE HAS PEOPLE WHO RIDE BICYCLES ISN'T THAT FUNNY QUACK QUACK."

Regarding the dirt - we get our veggies from farmers markets (delivered there by van or pickup, once a week), or at our local CSA drop off (delivered there by truck once a week.) The ducks drive around the city all day every day in stop and go traffic.

[ootwoods.livejournal.com]

Here the farmers drive their one-lung Deere's right up to the farmer's market and sell right off the wagon. :)

Either way.. it's a tourist attraction, and one of the things one must deal with when one wants to live in the "big city" whether it be Philly, NYC, or Seattle.

To me, it smacks of moving into Long Island and bitching about the traffic.

(I live in the country for a reason.. )

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Eh, I can deal with chinsy crap being in the city. I don't go to Seattle Center (except for Folk life,) I don't ride the monorail, I don't do the underground tour. It's easy to avoid the stuff I don't like.

Except the Ducks. It's impossible to avoid them, because they cruise around the city like shit-powered jet engines, splattering us all with their refuse. Imagine it like this:

Street performers are generally okay. Some of them are actually good, most of them aren't very good, but you can pretty easily ignore them. The Ducks are like that horrible protest singer you encountered the other week, except you can't leave. They take a reasonable idea to an insane extreme, and annoy pretty much everyone.

Also, the Ducks are a fairly recent phenomenon. We got along just fine for many years without them.

I like just about everything that comes with living in the city. I wouldn't like living in the country very much (different strokes...) :D