Those damn touts

The most aggravating/annoying aspect of traveling in a 3rd world country is the endless barrage of locals speaking pidgin english asking one or more of the following:
- "Taxi?"
- "Tour Guide?"
- "Bracelet?"
- "PASHMINA SCARF?"
- "Take look, Madam?"
- "Madam, take look?"
- "Book?"
- "Give me moneyyyy?"
- "Battery?"
- "Memory Card?"

and then followed by "cheap price for youuuu!?" Touts are relentlessly annoying, but are part of the traveling scenery.

The absolute worst is the child-tout. Not only are they super energetic and even more supercharged their their adult counterparts, but it is heartbreakingly depressing for a 3 year old to bear the brunt of the attitude of fed-up, tired tourist (such as myself). The worst experience occurred in Siem Reap as we were pulling away from the Killing Fields in an auto rickshaw (fancy scooter). A tiny, scrawny, adorable little girl had been trying to sell us some useless cloth bracelet for the past 5 minutes. She climbed onto the edge of the rickshaw as we were pulling away still begging as we moved faster until finally the driver scolded her to get off, then proceeded to chase after us for a few hundred meters in bare feet.

They are everywhere: lurking at stop lights in the craziest traffic you have ever seen, lying in the middle of busy intersections, pacing at the top of a temple near Angkor Wat.

Its utterly depressing..kids have it so good in the states, its unbelievable.