'Worst morning of my life' – Alison Healy on tricky tourists

A visitor wrote that the Grand Canyon was a ‘cluster of ugly looking rocks and a gorge that runs for miles. Boring is an understatement’. Photograph: Raymond Zhong/The New York Times I once brought a friend to a butterfly farm. This was a huge mistake. Not a lover of any creatures, great or small, she assumed the butterflies would be kept behind large screens at a safe distance from the humans. But of course the whole point of the butterfly farm is to be at one with the beautiful and exotic creatures. Entering the butterfly house, an idyllic vista lay…