They’ll Come Back Huffin’ And Puffin

Dealing with quantities of tourists has me baffled. I had roughly this conversation twice during my first month working in a grocery store.

Tourist: “Where on the island will I see the penguins?“

Me: “Do you mean puffins?“

Tourist: “No! There are penguins! I read about it on the Internet!“

I give them directions to the boat trip companies in a different village that’ll take them to the nesting cliffs. They won’t see penguins as it’s the wrong hemisphere, but they won’t be near me anymore.