What is funniest thing you ever saw on a college tour?

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Anonymous wrote:This was actually before the tour....Was lookin at Va Tech in spring of 1986 for grad school...we arrived the night before our Tuesday tour and found out Robin Williams was performing at the basketball arena. Got a tickets, and went to the show.

Cool story! Did you end up going to VT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was actually before the tour....Was lookin at Va Tech in spring of 1986 for grad school...we arrived the night before our Tuesday tour and found out Robin Williams was performing at the basketball arena. Got a tickets, and went to the show.

Cool story! Did you end up going to VT?

Yes

[Anonymous]

I was a campus tour guide and had a male friend who kept threatening to embarrass me when he saw me giving a tour ("Hey, the health clinic left a message on the answering machine. Pregnancy test came back negative!"). He never actually did, but would hover in the background, smiling, trying to freak me out. It was funny.

Strangest parent was the dad who was fixated on the number of volumes in the library. I can pretty much guarantee that was the least of his kid's concerns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Small college, and a small tour. Just 2 kids and 2 parents. The other parent left the tour to take a phone call, and his kid immediately started asking all these very specific questions about underage drinking and drug use. Like "So, if you're caught with alcohol by the R.A., do they call the campus police or the regular police? and can the campus police arrest you or just put you on probation? And do they notify your parents? How? In writing? OK, same questions, but cocaine, does that change things? What's the mandatory sentence in this state for cocaine? Is it different if you're on a college campus?" The poor tour guide just kept saying "You know I don't know, I bet there are websites with that kind of information, anyway, did I mention that the printing is free here? That's right you can print up to 100 pages a year! Totally free! And I don't even think that's a real limit, because I'm pretty sure my roommate printed like 107 pages and they didn't charge her."

As a side note, I swear every tour we went on included two things. One was a comment about how the printing was free, like we are supposed to make our decision based on $5.00 worth of printing costs. The other was they'd stop at one of those blue lights and tell some totally contrived story about how they come really quickly, but the tour guide only knows this because once there was this freshman who was on her way back from the library (always the library, freshmen never leave their dorm rooms for other reasons, apparently) and saw a deer (or other non scary thing) and panicked and the police came so fast!!! They all think they've found this clever way to reassure parents about crime without giving any hint that crime is actually a possibility.

Ugh. I was a tour guide, and I hated talking about the blue lights. There was always some dad who would ask some variation of, "What if you get attacked when you're in between the blue lights?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:not funny, but sad. JMU, walking around before the tour. We are walking around, and two students are working on a problem saying how hard it is. DD looks at the screen, and says "here id how you do it," and shows them what to do. DD was a HS junior. She will not be going to JMU.

My DD does not go to JMU, but you are an absolute mess.