Tour bus politics: Bernie! Bernie!
Living in a tourist Mecca, it's inevitable that I would be acquainted with quite a few tour guides. One I know, we'll call him Jon, told of this incident.
Jon had a tour bus group of fifty-five older tourists last week. During a lull in the tour, one gentleman asked Jon, "So, who are you going to vote for?"
Jon, being no fool, anwered, "I can't answer that, sir."
"Why not?"
"Well if I did, I could be immediately fired for politicing on the job." (A bit of an exageration, but still a possibility if a political conversation with tourists got heated.)
The tourist then said very definitely, "Well, I'm voting for Bernie!"
Several other people on the bus spoke up then: "Me, too!" "So am I!"
Jon said that about half of the people on the bus didn't know about Bernie and asked about him. At which point those who knew about Bernie started a narrative of who Bernie is, what he stands for, and his record. At the end of the narrative, people in the group were saying, "Wow! He sounds like what we need!" I'm voting for Bernie! "I am too!"
The group did an impromptu chorus of "BerNIE! BerNIE! BerNIE!"
Jon then turned to the gentleman who started the conversation and mouthed, "I am too."
And the interlude was over; it was time for some tour guiding again.
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