Local guide program is a journey that I wish to do my whole life.
I have been writing reviews and rating new places when I was in my 2nd year of college and being a critic that I am, I help people with my reviews. So there was once a story of a roadside restaurant, commonly known as Dhaba here in India. Our traveling buses stop there generally. One such incident happened with me when I was traveling from Dehradun, Uttarakhand to the capital New Delhi. And our bus driver stopped in one such Dhaba, where there so many people selling pamphlets of food and menus, I wasn’t particularly hungry and sat there just to have a paratha(oiled - Chappati), the food was mediocre and when I had completed my meal, came the bill where the price mentioned was thrice the price that was quoted to me.
I felt cheated, I did pay the amount that came in my bill, but I felt that this should not happen to my fellow passengers, who stop here from their tedious journey, I wish to put a review but forgot.
After 3 weeks I was traveling on the same route, and I started shooting a video of the same.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zPUXwtfGsk3CaPF36
To my surprise, these Dhaba people came to fight and started telling me to stop recording and clicking photos and I thought I can’t win when there are so many people, calling the police and telling the authority would lead me to miss my bus. I played smartly and deleted the photos and video from Google Photos, and showed this to them, they somehow agreed and left me.
I was infuriated by what they did and would never ever want someone to eat at this Dhaba in the first place, so I wrote a review and a detailed one, describing my past and new experiences. And I smartly restored my photos and videos from Bin in Google Photos. I made sure that if someone reads my review at least they would be ready for further consequences. Some of my friends got aware of this Dhaba when they were traveling from the same route, and thanked me personally, which just made my day
From this experience and many more made me thought to give more to Google Guide Community since then I have been posting photos and uploading reviews of every place I visit, I make sure that people get the idea and insight of visiting a new place. And in my country where there is so much diversity and vibrance, if I could just lend a helping hand to someone, I would be glad, thankyou