As you will find in the comments of my previous post on this subject (Beer Crate Guys, Part II), Peegee gives some excellent insight on the origin of the Beer Crate Guys: construction workers away from their families 5 to 6 days of the week makes complete and total sense to me.
But, Peegee, as a loyal reader of this blog I thank you, and I mean this with the most love and respect (and as all my posts are written, they should be read with one’s tongue in cheek)… based on my own observations of construction workers in Belgrade… rocking the Beer Crates on “breaks” where and when their “boss can pretend not to see them” doesn’t hold as much water with me. The roofers in my part of town start lining up their empties like a trophy gallery along the edge of their roofs by 10:00 AM.
They don’t seem to be hiding their activities from their supervisors… since most are openly drinking beer out of two-liter bottles… on the roof. It seems to me that these construction workers don’t need to go far for their bosses to “pretend not to see them” drink. Lol.
But I don’t mean to judge. After all, I’m the one who let a visibly, stumbling drunk dermatologist shoot me with a laser a few months ago. Seriously… she was totally drunk… and I totally let her shoot me.
Anyway, long live the Beer Crate Guys!
BTW: Peegee… do you think it would freak the Beer Crate Guys out if I joined them one day? I think it would be an interesting sociological exercise. I speak very little Serbian… but I am interested.
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Explain please - demonologist and laser....
Lol. Sorry, I meant to type "dermatologist"... but after a dunk dermatologist shoots you with a laser... they definitely cross over into demonologist territory.
Yes Peegee was so correct. For some of these guys this is the time they have to flex before going home to face some of the problems that they will be facing there. One will never find out some of the information you can grasp by just having a drink with them. http://wisejamaican.com
my grin turned to giggle on the last part, when I thought about you approaching them, with half liter beer bottle, nodding 'what's up, bro' to the pack leader, and taking one of the crates for yourself :D
I would be very interested to see the outcome of that anthropological experiment, and I am ready to match your every beer with one of mine..
I'm sure it would lead to a cool story for the kids. Once they grow much, much older :)
And I know you want to! As one wise person said once "I still think that you're just jealous and want to be one of the beer guys." :D
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