#23

I like cats tho

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#25

fair

#26

Haha, not like The Apprentice, but yeah, my doughnut bill pretty much means I operate on zero profit, because I am an excellent business woman.

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#27

love doing walking tours in a new city

never know how much to tip people at the end

#28

Correct.

Most tour guides make up a ton of stuff, sometimes they don’t even know they’re doing because they’ve stolen it from another guide in the first place.

Most people do listen BUT lots of people don’t yet still ask me tons of questions ABOUT WHAT I JUST TOLD THEM. Listen to the words coming out of my mouth the first time, pal.

Depends on the tour I guess but mine are mostly aimed at people already living here and are into culture and shit, so they tend to listen. The worst offenders are when I have to take Instagram ‘influencers’ around. Kill me.

#29

Oh, that’s reminded me of being at the Brooklyn Museum of Art when they had the YBA’s Sensations exhibition on. Being English I could say anything I liked about the artworks and the Americans would just lap it up. I made up all kinds of stuff to amuse my friends.

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#30

In 6 years I’ve been tipped 4 times, but I charge in advance so all payments are online, suppose if I asked them to pay cash on the day I’d get more tip opportunities.

But yeah, if it’s a free walking tour obviously it’s all tips. Average in the UK is £8 apparently.

#31

Was mits a tour guide?

#32

yeah, didn’t she do London bus tours or something?

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#33

i usually go for the ‘free’ tours, yeah. dunno why.

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#35

Took 12 people on a tour of North Korea once despite having very limited knowledge of the country. I was only there to keep an eye on them but they saw me as their leader and kept asking me difficult questions. One of them had a massive go at me when I made something up about a tomb on day one. And then had to deal with a sort of mutiny as half the group were appalled at the standard of the accommodation. A horrible two weeks.

#36

that sounds scary and dangerous, couldn’t you have been thrown in jail for making stuff up?

#37

Going past the Tower of London: “We’re just passing the London home of Shirley Bassey.”

#38

No but I know someone who does it for a living. He started his own company (just him) a few years ago and did so well that for a time he was the no.1 attraction in London on TripAdvisor!

#39

Did quite a few things I probably could’ve ended up in jail for, mainly talking with Koreans about how they could escape the country. I was going through quite a rough patch and thought things might improve if I was held captive in another country.

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#40

that’s really rough man :frowning:

if it’s any consolation you sound like a badass!

#41

she was, i think she does music full time now tho. also ive been on three @scout tours and they are all ten out of ten excellent, but i received zero doughnuts, but did get a special bonus tour of the palace hotel once (wahey! (not really, she made me climb on a massive box to see if there was anything on top (there was not)))

#42

wait no, two tours and that pomona protest thing where we just chucked flower seeds around and that guy from the pirate party hit on you? @scout

#43

Oh yeah, shame about that box. I forgot about that.

Don’t recall pirate guy hitting on me either. You are now secretary of my memories.