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Thursday 28 August 2008

The not so beautiful game....

I didn't exactly skip into work on Wednesday evening but I was in a fairly happy mood if a little tired. I had been off for two days and I always feel a slight tinge of trepidation upon returning to work. You never know what "fantastic" idea they have come up with in my absence. I don't handle change well and am a firm believer of leavings things alone.

I mean I freaked out the day one of them moved the container of tea bags. It was fine where it was. Proper mental episode involving banging, thumping, swearing and indeed huffing. And there was plot loss maximus the day I came back to work to discover a small mutiny was taking place. The management didn't like the booking system, my booking system and had got the rest of my co-workers all agitated into believing that it needed changed. It didn't need changed, they just needed to spend some time learning it. Change my system? Over my cold dead fat body.

Believe me I am an absolute fucking joy to work with. Was the the sound of egg shells?
this has one use....
....and one use alone
k?

But I threw a fit this evening, I threw a fit and then some. I was completing my pre shift checklist. By completing I mean I was ticking all the boxes. Did I actually water the plants and check the fridge for extra condiments? I couldn't possibly say. But I do like to ensure the toilets are shit ship shape and ready for action. I mean you don't want to find a floater or worse in the stalls half way through your meal. No one wants that.

So in I popped to complete the paranoid half hourly toilet check. Stalls were fine, stocked and clean. The mirrors were free from spit, curious stains, and worse. Hand soaps, fine. Hand dryer functioning as required, in other words it still takes 20 minutes to dry your slightly damp hands. Urinal not overflowing.

But wait, what's this?

What the fuckity fuck is this in the urinal?

Is that what I think it is?

Is that a football and nets? GET ME A MANAGER!

Now I appreciate humour as much as the next person. I enjoy jokes and games and have been known to let myself go from time to time. Why only last month I watched the latest Harold and Kumar movie. And who doesn't enjoy a dirty limerick or two? Eh? Who?

But bugger me is there really a need for urinal games the object of which is to score goals using your piss? And is the toilet of a restaurant really the best place for such an endeavor? And unless your company is directly involved with urinals, the production of urinals, the cleaning of said troughs, or whatever do you really want your company name being pissed on? Andrex aside I'd venture the answer would be no. But the good and clearly mental people at JJB Sports seem to think it's a good idea. I mean how did that marketing meeting go?

"What we need lads is a pish related game. That'll put us right on top of the sports outlets tree. Take that Foot Locker."

I mean you'd have to be tripping to think it's a winner. No manger would entertain me. I was told to "wind my neck in." Wind my neck in is it? Oh we shall just fucking see about that. This ain't over, not by a long way. Pissing games? What next cock wrestling and wine nights?

I was confident though my customers wouldn't get involved in such poppycock (pun intended, obviously). But I was wrong. I went to check the toilets at 8.30pm to discover two of my Swedish gents, both well into their forties, from one of tables getting stuck in to a game of pissing football. There they were, willies out, pish flowing trying to score more goals than the other.

I sighed.

The progression from ape to man is now over and in fact we are now reversing all our evolutionary gains. Still it has to be said their game was marginally better than Liverpool's match. Less pissy too.

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From The Khmer Rouge Strippergram - Hostile Planet Guide to New Hampshire. Very funny stuff.

From Raging Server - Roundtable, as someone once said, "It hasn't gone away you know."

26 People trying to get Manuel's attention:

Anonymous said...

LOL, pee goals are the sole reason I am thankful I'm not a bloke

Manuel said...

byw: oh I'm sure they are busy beavering away thinking about something equally as horrendous for women too...

Megan McGurk said...

They can have a version for the women where we throw our used tampons to try and make a goal, Manuel.
Sheesh.
No one needs to play with their blodily fluids in a restaurant for fuck's sake.

Anonymous said...

Scousers must piss all over themselves.

Manuel said...

medbh: restaurant, bar, home....there is no venue where playing with your urine is acceptable.....end of

Manuel said...

sniffle and cry: no question....no question at all....

Anonymous said...

cripes! what next? cardboard battleships in the crapper to sink with a poo?

savannah said...

that's ridiculous, sugar! you have every right to complain! of course, it will go away the first time a party gets upset that the men have vanished and the meals are getting cold! and you KNOW it will happen! xoxo

(i thought yours was an upscale sort of resto)

savannah said...

hey, i heard you got a new macbook! ;-) xoxo

Silverstar said...

Oh, lord, now I can visualize Daisy Fae's comment. But we'd need a periscope to be accurate. Wait...What am I saying? Ewwww!

The Mistress said...

I’ve already done all the research into how to pee like a man.

Manuel said...

daisyfae: shhhhhhh the are listening...

savannah: so did i!! macbook? me? did i mention that? hehehehe

silverstar: argghh!

mj: yes, yes you have......i clicked.......why did I click.....

Anonymous said...

"oh I'm sure they are busy beavering away thinking about something equally as horrendous for women too..."

Genius, Manuel. My hat is off to you!

Manuel said...

dave: I thought it was a bit subtle.....good work spotting that.....

Sharon McDaid said...

WTF? That's the maddest bit of extraneous crap I ever did see. It's going to piss off the older gentlemen too, I mean, isn't it hard enough for them to pee in public with their enlarged prostrates. How will they feel when the fella next to them is gushing into goal when their measley trickle gets them nowhere?

Anonymous said...

They used to have them in the errigle on ormeau rd. Great craic when your hammered, very tacky when your sober.

Unknown said...

Not very classy... tell the powers that be that restaurants lose grades/stars for that kind of thing.

Lottie said...

That's terrible. Little pissheads!

T cup said...

that's brill!! great post.

am just wondering there would you ever consider being a mahager yourself??

Old Knudsen said...

Wind yer neck in and piss football, I knew you worked at the Pancake hoose, such class.

Bock the Robber said...

It's a fucking brilliant idea. I don't know what the fuck you're complaining about.

I can see this taking off.

Manuel said...

somebody, and I wont say who , removed them this morning....double gloves and a bin bag......pee games? in my toilets? I don't fucking think so.....

Manuel said...

t cup: been there done that....You lose contact with the guest as manager and you become focused/obsessed with the numbers. I more fun and make better/easier money as a waiter........

Anonymous said...

Brings a whole new, rather literal, meaning to the phrase 'pissing contest', doesn't it?

Anonymous said...

Actually you might find this is something in line with the urinal fly (urinalfly.com).

God bless us, if you give us a target our aim is much better. Means less cleanup of stray pee.

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