This happened during our company trip to Spain. Upon arrival, we were received by a local guide who was to take care of the group and handle all the logistics throughout the land tours. He greeted us and introduced himself saying “I am not just a Tour Leader but a Tour Manager. I am Malaysian but I reside in Europe most of the time. If your are planning to extend to other places like London, Paris, I can be your personal guide. I know all the nice places around. I only charge a nominal sum for my services..” And rattled on and on with what “I can do.” and blah! blah! blah!. Instead of telling us about the sights and history of the places along the way, he was busy trying to sell himself. To aggravate matters, he started passing around maps and brochures on places other than Spain. Finally, a couple of our colleagues told him off. Trying to change subject, he said he wanted to get to know us better and started the ball rolling by passing down the mic for everyone to speak.

One of our members pulled a farce one on him and said “I’m an Eye(i) Specialist”. We were wondering what Eye Specialist. He worked in the medical division no doubt but for sure he was not an Eye Specialist. When he reiterated the Eye Specialist and emphasized on the Eye, we finally got him and the whole bus burst out laughing. He was being sarcastic and hinting at our “Tour Manager”’s bragging with “I can” I know?..etc. That was really funny and we laughed our hearts out, all except our tour leader (ooops “Tour Manager”) friend who was wondering and scratching his head, probably until today, what was so amusing being an Eye I Specialist.

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