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The other day, I was once again on the guide job in the museum. They had some sort of book reading or concert or whatever going on two hours after closing time, and the idea was that guests wander in an hour early, check out the exhibition and the guides just stand around and people ask them about things. Apart from myself, there was another bloke on duty who seemed to have more experience with this sort of service, so I went up to him and asked him about it. I'd already met the fellow before and he struck me as a bit odd, but so what. Well, he replied to me that "you have to walk up to people and offer them a tour. For example, last time I went over to this group and said: 'hello there, would you like to have a tour through the museum?' and they said 'no', and I said 'yes, you do.' and I pointed over to that piece over there and asked them 'can you tell me what that is? No? I thought so. So you obviously need a tour.' So they sometimes resist, and sometimes they aren't interested in what you tell them, but you just need to be insistent and it will work." At that point, I noticed how my eyebrows raised absolutely automatically. I mean, what the...?
I ended up guiding a group of three who knew nothing but were very interested, which is my favourite type of people to guide anyway.
 
Night Prowler said:
SHIT! At Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, 2 people were killed when the stage fell down, very similar thing happened few days ago in Indianapolis :(
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Something similar also happened at Sonisphere Finland last year.
 
Wasted The Great said:
Wow, that dude seems to have a strange philosophy... Kind of the used care salesman of tour guides.
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Yeah, only that you have a fixed rate anyway. You don't get paid per tour but per hour. So it's not like he has to be desperate for people to guide... au contraire, this is more likely to scare people away. I'd have second thoughts about going to that museum again. Especially when you consider his style of guiding, which, let's say I'm not in agreement with, either.
 
So, what you're saying is that if I go to Berlin and want a tour, wait for Perun to be on, not douchebag. Got it.
 
LooseCannon said:
So, what you're saying is that if I go to Berlin and want a tour, wait for Perun to be on, not douchebag. Got it.
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Something along those lines, yes.
 
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