If you work in the service industry in New Orleans for awhile, you will start to get the same questions over and over. Here are a few of the most popular.
“How far is Bourbon Street? Can we walk there?”
No matter where you are in the city, people will always ask this question. You could be uptown, downtown, Marigny, Metairie, Shreveport. Doesn’t matter. There is a perception that Bourbon Street spans the length of the city and in some instances even reaches out to other regions of the state. You could be deep in the swamps and a tourist will come rowing by on a pirogue asking how far away Bourbon is.
“Do you live here?”
Service industry workers are asked this all the time, as if they live in another state but somehow still work at a bar in New Orleans. Perhaps tourists believe specialist bartenders are whisked in by private jet every day from distant lands to sling hand grenades. Some tourists think New Orleans is just a big adult playground and nothing exists outside of Bourbon Street. They can’t fathom how anyone actually lives here at all. Which also leads to another popular question…
This question is like asking a cab driver in New York City if there is always traffic. Of course it is always crazy. IT’S BOURBON STREET!!! We’re talking about a street designed and geared toward getting people as drunk as humanly possible so that they make the poorest decisions possible. This usually results in people having much less money in their wallets and bank accounts by the end of the night, and often times less content in their pockets.
“Do you live here?”
Service industry workers are asked this all the time, as if they live in another state but somehow still work at a bar in New Orleans. Perhaps tourists believe specialist bartenders are whisked in by private jet every day from distant lands to sling hand grenades. Some tourists think New Orleans is just a big adult playground and nothing exists outside of Bourbon Street. They can’t fathom how anyone actually lives here at all. Which also leads to another popular question…
This question is like asking a cab driver in New York City if there is always traffic. Of course it is always crazy. IT’S BOURBON STREET!!! We’re talking about a street designed and geared toward getting people as drunk as humanly possible so that they make the poorest decisions possible. This usually results in people having much less money in their wallets and bank accounts by the end of the night, and often times less content in their pockets.
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