You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Having fun at your job. Taking something ordinary and making it
extraordinary.
There’s an old saying; find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Can you say that? Are you working for the weekend? Are you working for the paycheck? Or do you laugh at work and genuinely enjoy your co-workers?
I came across a fun video out of Manchester England and it features bartenders at a Thank God its Fridays’.
What’s so fun about TGIF? The hot wings? The eclectic decor that makes you wanna order a barf bag?
Across the pond, TGIF has wait staff who treat mixing an adult libation like its cirque du soleil.
DATELINE: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
It’s here that Candy Cane clothed, suspender wearing tequila trickster’s are spinning bottles and doing cartwheels behind the bar.
Perhaps they do it for tips, perhaps for kicks. Either way they have turned the ordinary into the extra ordinary and for this I salute them as part of the Crazy work force.
I wish I could spit fire onto my desk in a desultory salute to nothing in particular.
There are some astounding bar tricks to be sure. One guy flips 6 napkins and they all spin onto the bar in a neat pattern. It’s like a paper version of the blue angels. I can’t even pull a kleenex out of the box without 500 pieces coming out too.
The bartenders splash five cherries into 5 cocktail glasses at once.
I can’t even get my lime into my corona bottle without green pulp spilling over the side.
The mixologists even get physical, using suspenders to launch a heavy metallic drink tumbler 30 feet across the restaurant.
I once poked myself in my own eye with a fork. How the hell did I do that? don’t ask.
The patrons that don’t lose an eye clap feverishly.
Fire is always a good way to end a performance and these bartenders do flaming shots of Sambuca like candy striped fire breathing dragons. I drank a flaming shot of sambuca once. It was heart warming. My buddy did it too. He didn’t quite extinguish the flame and he drank the burning brew. In the next moment his face was covered in a blue flame. We all started laughing. He was not seriously hurt, at least I don’t think he was. Who really cares, right? It’s a flaming shot of sambuca. You know what you’re getting into when you order it.
Anyway….Thank God It’s Friday everyone.
And that is crazy.