Daegu on vacation
By Merlin flower
Daegu had never seen any foreign country. And you can imagine his dismay when he read, “Fools don’t travel.” Daegu was no fool but he was indeed shaken a bit to read such a comment. “I’ve got to travel somewhere,” he thought to himself.
He approached the manager for a ten days leave. “But why do you want a ten days leave now?,” enquired the manager.
“Oh, I want to visit some places to expand my horizon of knowledge,” replied Daegu.
“Come on Daegu, you are intelligent even now.”
Daegu smiled to himself. “I did manage to fool them,” he thought but his voice pleaded, “No, I do want to visit some places, please.”
“Fine then, finish off your tasks and then we’ll think about the leave.”
The tasks kept him occupied for the next three days and then he was free.
Daegu counted the days-It remained at ten even after twenty counts. The first dilemma started-to select a destination. He rummaged his brain to locate a favorite place. There were many from Darjeeling in India to Hawaii. “It should be a place I can boast after visiting,” Daegu reminded himself.
“Try the internet, join some on-line travel community,” suggested his friends. And where is Daegu now, no marks for guessing-searching the net for a destination. It took him a day to complete the forms for joining a travel community.
“Gosh, how I hate this surfing,” he shouted at himself. But ask his friends and they’ll tell stories of how Daegu had the knack of visiting ‘YouTube’ and ‘Facebook’ even at work. In fact he was even caught in the act once and by happy coincidence had got an award for the “quickest surfer of the Internet” in his company. Coming back to Daegu, he got twenty replies in five minutes. The destinations proposed were different in all cases. Some had even included photos of their vacation with smiling faces. “They must be selling cheese everywhere,” Daegu commented rather dryly.
“I’ll go to the travel office and get a ticket to the quickest destination,” saying this Daegu landed in a travel agency. The lady there gave him a wide smile and presented a big book full of recommended destination.
“You can visit any of these places,” she said. “We’ll book the hotels and even hire cabs for you.”
“That’s very nice of you, but can you suggest any interesting place to visit?”
“You can visit Sicily or Paris or London or..”
“Never mind, I’ll decide,” said Daegu and opened the book. The first destination given was
South Korea.
“This is it, am a genius” shouted Daegu and booked a ticket to North Korea.
And the story goes that Daegu was sent back immediately as he didn’t know the language and had asked the cab to take him to Seoul. Friends, wellwishers and the messages on social media say he was lucky to escape being branded a spy as the name ‘Seoul’ was never uttered in the streets of North Korea.
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By Merlin flower
Daegu had never seen any foreign country. And you can imagine his dismay when he read, “Fools don’t travel.” Daegu was no fool but he was indeed shaken a bit to read such a comment. “I’ve got to travel somewhere,” he thought to himself.
He approached the manager for a ten days leave. “But why do you want a ten days leave now?,” enquired the manager.
“Oh, I want to visit some places to expand my horizon of knowledge,” replied Daegu.
“Come on Daegu, you are intelligent even now.”
Daegu smiled to himself. “I did manage to fool them,” he thought but his voice pleaded, “No, I do want to visit some places, please.”
“Fine then, finish off your tasks and then we’ll think about the leave.”
The tasks kept him occupied for the next three days and then he was free.
Daegu counted the days-It remained at ten even after twenty counts. The first dilemma started-to select a destination. He rummaged his brain to locate a favorite place. There were many from Darjeeling in India to Hawaii. “It should be a place I can boast after visiting,” Daegu reminded himself.
“Try the internet, join some on-line travel community,” suggested his friends. And where is Daegu now, no marks for guessing-searching the net for a destination. It took him a day to complete the forms for joining a travel community.
“Gosh, how I hate this surfing,” he shouted at himself. But ask his friends and they’ll tell stories of how Daegu had the knack of visiting ‘YouTube’ and ‘Facebook’ even at work. In fact he was even caught in the act once and by happy coincidence had got an award for the “quickest surfer of the Internet” in his company. Coming back to Daegu, he got twenty replies in five minutes. The destinations proposed were different in all cases. Some had even included photos of their vacation with smiling faces. “They must be selling cheese everywhere,” Daegu commented rather dryly.
“I’ll go to the travel office and get a ticket to the quickest destination,” saying this Daegu landed in a travel agency. The lady there gave him a wide smile and presented a big book full of recommended destination.
“You can visit any of these places,” she said. “We’ll book the hotels and even hire cabs for you.”
“That’s very nice of you, but can you suggest any interesting place to visit?”
“You can visit Sicily or Paris or London or..”
“Never mind, I’ll decide,” said Daegu and opened the book. The first destination given was
South Korea.
“This is it, am a genius” shouted Daegu and booked a ticket to North Korea.
And the story goes that Daegu was sent back immediately as he didn’t know the language and had asked the cab to take him to Seoul. Friends, wellwishers and the messages on social media say he was lucky to escape being branded a spy as the name ‘Seoul’ was never uttered in the streets of North Korea.
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