When conversation turn to names here I very often tell people a story of when I was a holiday rep, so I think I should share it with you guys too. I know there are many people who regularly read my blog who have Turks as partners or who travel to Turkey regularly and love it as much as I do, you guys will probably have heard this name before and others which for european people seem strange..
I worked for a couple of years as a transfer rep which entailed accompanying holiday makers to and from the airport and hotel. The guests were Irish and great fun most of the time unless as on occassion you had a malicious drunk or a manic depressive who had stopped talking their meds, but thats another couple of posts lol.
There were as many as eight coaches most weeks waiting to collect our guests and they all stayed in the same hotel so all the reps were friends and the drivers were mainly regular so we got to know them really well over the seasonm. Some reps never asked for tips for the drivers, some did but shared and some like me asked and never expected a share unless the driver had done particularly well. So some drivers liked particular reps and one driver seemed to take a shine for working with me as he always did well with tips.. Now I didnt mind this as most of the drivers were pleasant enough and as I can speak Turkish we could fill the trips with a little chatter.
So? I hear you all asking where is this leading? Well imagine this and as youve probably all been on a package holiday it should be easy. As the coach pulls away from the airport carpark you listen to the rep introducing herself, welcoming you to Turkey and introducing the driver, well imagine introducing your driver to a coach full of 40 Irish holiday makers, many who had been drinking on the plane journey across to Turkey and many who were in high spirits when your drivers name was Ufuk!!!!!
Yes it was fun.... the guests would repeat his name. AH UFUKKK, oh fuk, hey ufuk, and it would continue for several minutes until they calmed down and got it out of their system.
On many occassions Ufuk would say to me that they all liked his name didnt they? yes they did I would reply and on a couple of occassions he asked me why they laughed and smiled so much when I told them his name, what could I say? well I politely explained that the Irish were just like that and very friendly people.. well what would you have said?!
I worked for a couple of years as a transfer rep which entailed accompanying holiday makers to and from the airport and hotel. The guests were Irish and great fun most of the time unless as on occassion you had a malicious drunk or a manic depressive who had stopped talking their meds, but thats another couple of posts lol.
There were as many as eight coaches most weeks waiting to collect our guests and they all stayed in the same hotel so all the reps were friends and the drivers were mainly regular so we got to know them really well over the seasonm. Some reps never asked for tips for the drivers, some did but shared and some like me asked and never expected a share unless the driver had done particularly well. So some drivers liked particular reps and one driver seemed to take a shine for working with me as he always did well with tips.. Now I didnt mind this as most of the drivers were pleasant enough and as I can speak Turkish we could fill the trips with a little chatter.
So? I hear you all asking where is this leading? Well imagine this and as youve probably all been on a package holiday it should be easy. As the coach pulls away from the airport carpark you listen to the rep introducing herself, welcoming you to Turkey and introducing the driver, well imagine introducing your driver to a coach full of 40 Irish holiday makers, many who had been drinking on the plane journey across to Turkey and many who were in high spirits when your drivers name was Ufuk!!!!!
Yes it was fun.... the guests would repeat his name. AH UFUKKK, oh fuk, hey ufuk, and it would continue for several minutes until they calmed down and got it out of their system.
On many occassions Ufuk would say to me that they all liked his name didnt they? yes they did I would reply and on a couple of occassions he asked me why they laughed and smiled so much when I told them his name, what could I say? well I politely explained that the Irish were just like that and very friendly people.. well what would you have said?!
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