Volunteering, like many things, has its benefits.  One neat perk for me this year with Bluesfest is that I have been chosen to receive Smart Serve Certification.  Now I am not sure but I suspect a lot of people who volunteer to serve beer (I will be selling beer and passing the drinks to the customer but I won’t actually be pouring beer), sign up to volunteer in this particular capacity because they get Smart Serve certified for free.  Only a few cashiers get selected to receive Smart Serve certification and apparently this is my lucky year! 

It’s rather incongruous that a non beer drinker who is repulsed by inebriation would deliberately work for the beer tent three years in a row (although I’ll admit that the first year I applied late and didn’t have much choice), but really it’s great fun: people at the Bluesfest are generally in good spirits (pun intended) and beer drinkers are no different.  I haven’t had a surly customer yet; hopefully year three won’t disappoint.  Fellow volunteers are generally fun to work with and you really get a sort of carnival atmosphere in the beer tent. On hot days people are buying drinks quite quickly and the day just flies by.

So once I’m certified, I think it’s only fair that I have a party where I mix up drinks for all and sundry (don’t worry, there will be alcohol-free libations too).  Look for the invitation on my blog : )

 (I don’t know yet what today’s WurdyGurdy word is but today’s entry has a couple of good candidate words!)

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