Thursday, May 28, 2009

Occupation: Towel Boy (Volunteer)

I just got home from a fun night at my local leather bar Manacle. (See, this is what unemployment looks like. It looks like big, semi-drunken nights out on a Wednesday.) Tonight was the Grand Final of the all male jelly wrestling, and my dreams were finally realised. I was picked out of the crowd as a Towel Boy! Towel Boy duties include; handing bottled water to the contestant between bouts, towelling off the contestant between bouts, pats and short words or encouragement, more extremely diligent towelling of the contestant, and trying to answer questions of the host in an entertaining manner.  ("What do you do?" "Um, I was retrenched last week." ...*crickets*...) Fortunately my particular contestant was an extremely buff African American contestant visiting from San Francisco, so frankly the diligent towelling was no hardship.  None!

Oh yeah, I also helped shine the latex suit of one of the hosts... but that's a different post entirely.

5 comments:

Mindy said...

Heh. Towel Boy is going to look good on your CV.


WV: parksita.

Ur-spo said...

that sounds a marvelous job.

jason said...

I don't know, in bars around here the phrase:

"I was retrenched last week"

might sound like flirting...or a brag.

mrpeenee said...

Jealous much, mrpeenee?

Why yes, I am.

Graeme said...

Sounds like you're perfect for the service industries. Could this be the start of a whole new career direction?