Being a campus tour guide is rewarding, exciting, and sometimes hilarious. I asked the tour guides of Saint Michael's College to give me their weirdest or funniest story while on tours, and here is what they said:
"As I just finished giving a tour of a residence hall, I was walking down the stairs of Lyons talking about the building then I slipped, missed a step, fell down a flight, and slammed into the wall. Only one person asked if I was okay."
Shaun Griswold
"This isn't from a tour I gave but from a tour I was on as a senior in high school. I went to this college and it was the guide’s first tour. It was just me, my mom, another boy, and his mom. About 15 minutes into the tour, the boy asked if there were paw-paw trees on campus. The tour guide is being very polite and says "Oh,, I'll have to look into that!" But the boy would not give up the question. He continued to ask five more times about the presence of paw-paw trees on campus."
Aisling O’Leary
"I was giving a tour to a potential professor and I was showing her the Makerspace and a project a student had 3D printed and she was looking at it and dropped it and broke it. It was about 20 hours worth of work the kid did and he hadn't turned it in yet."
Lily Goode
"When I was giving a tour it was loud outside with the jets flying around so I was talking loud to begin with. I walked into the chapel and was giving my spiel about it when I noticed everyone on my tour was giving me a weird look. I turn around and there's a service going on. And here I was talking loudly…oops."
Olivia Katherine
"I was walking through the learning gardens and pointed out the arch and its asymmetry. I was saying that someone had told me it was asymmetrical because the rest of the campus is symmetrical, but that personally it bothered me and I wish both sides were the same. One of the girl’s dads turned to me and said, "Later tonight we should all sneak on campus and fill in the hole" I laughed it off but he was very intent on our completing this rogue mission and continually brought it up."
Kerra Photiades
Feel free to comment below your funniest tour story, whether you are a tour guide or have just been on a campus tour!!
