I can understand the complaint though.
You might not have come if you knew beforehand that it would be this busy. But now that you’re finally here, you don’t want to waste the trip and decide to make the best of it. You just grumble a little that it’s so busy.

I think I understand the joke, but I’ve seen things from this point of view as well. Something happened during and after pandemic lockdowns that has led to absolutely unprecedented numbers of people going out and hiking what were previously really quiet trails. It was already tough maintaining them before, now you’ve got tons of people who don’t bother to know the norms or understood rules of the parks.

Several parks near me have had to institute an admittance/ticketing program with reservations made a month in advance just to enter the trailhead lot because they’re so overrun with people now. It’s great that people are outside and enjoying a public resource, but maybe it’s just a few too many people all at once?

The big US national parks had a reservation system for a bit. It was great.

If I get a ticket, I’ll go and it’ll be a pleasant experience. If I don’t, well, I can take a tour bus in or I can just not go.

I appreciated that systemic fix, even if it sucks when you don’t get a ticket and get to drive in exactly how you want. (You can still enter on foot or public transit.)

Me when I am in traffic 😔

Accidental self critique rule: Anyone who says “there are too many people” is the extra person.

Well you’re in luck because a bill was introduced to sell National Parks to billionaires

I bet they have a licence plate and bumper stickers that tell other people how environmentally friendly they are.

Costco every fucking day…

I read this as a horror prompt where the spealer isnt’t human, lol

How I feel whenever I drive on the highway.