I wrote this for the Entry, Cheap Fun in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...

The City of Peterborough offers some wonderful opportunities for beguiling visitors with your wealth of local knowledge, real or imagined. This is a great way to pass the time, and a novel way meet new and interesting people.

The Summer months are replete with visitors from far and wide, many arriving on the Trent-Severn Waterway, and all in need of your services as guide and interpreter, though many may not immediately realize it. The trick is to choose the most obviously alien and bewildered tourists in the throng, because it is they who will most appreciate your warmth, charm, and erudition.

• The Peterborough Lift Lock - The Lift Lock, located on the Trent Canal, is the highest hydraulic lock in the world... and a natural draw for tourists. The advantage here is that the site is open to a broad range of interpretation and embellishment; and the chances of being overheard and contradicted are relatively slim.
  

• The Riverview Park and Zoo - One of the nice things about the zoo is that it is quite a short stroll from the main campus of the university. It offers a sweeping range of possibilities for the creative student to imagine being an expert on all sorts of subjects, including the improbable fact that the zoo was founded and is maintained by the local utilities commission. And, like the Lift Lock, there is very little likelihood of being undone by hard and contradictory evidence.
  

• Quaker Oats - The well-known manufacturer of wholesome breakfast cereals is a prominent local employer. As a change of pace from the role of cheerful but essentially objective interpretor, you could assume the more serious guise of a gloomy writer and internationally recognized expert on porridge, researching a new book. Some care should be exercised when talking with tourists from Scotland in this case.
  

• The Canadian Canoe Museum - This is a very interesting place, and provides an entertaining and educational way to pass the time without the subtext of pretending to be someone you're not. If the temptation to present yourself as an expert proves to be irresistible, however, canoes are as good a subject as any to have expertise in. The Canoe Museum has the largest collection of canoes and kayaks in the world; and the role canoes played in Canadian history is well worth exploring. Be very cautious about what you claim to be true, because museums are, after all, designed to present information without your intervention. There are even paid interpreters about who are quite capable of making you look a fool if you're not careful.