Happy Everybody’s Irish Day

From The Second City’s short Meet The Four Types of Drunks on St. Patrick’s Day (2015)

My favorite Irish gripe song:

Gotta include The Pogues:

More St. Patrick’s Day fun in The Archives.

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! (no seas una vergüenza)

[Cinco de Mayo archive here.]

Bunk’s Days in the Service… Industry

bellhop-from-hell

A long time ago, in the late ages of black and white TV, Bunk worked in the service industry.  Grunt jobs in restaurants and hotels.  Pot washer. Busboy. Bellhop. Toilet scrubber. Shag carpet raker. Drunk patron helperouter

I was one of three bellhops wearing Hilton monkey suits. Think of three PeeWee Herman/Eddie Haskell type weasels lurking just inside the front doors of a fancy hotel. We were like that.

Besides humping bags all over the hotel, we ran room service and operated a satellite AVIS car rental desk. We were paid less than minimum wage as we were expected to make up the rest in tips.

We got creative.

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