Massive like a Rhino!

One thing you need to remember about doormen is that we are inherently just big kids, we're also worse than a sewing circle when we're together and get pissed off about something!

For a period of around five years I worked alongside a lot of doormen at a variety of venues, we worked hard and played hard too, taking every opportunity to go out and paint the town.   When greeting each other though we didn't follow the normal handshake and single arm embrace of respect you see in many documentaries. No, we opted for flexing at each other.  It started when driving past friends on the door, instead of giving a friendly wave we'd flex out bicep and let out a stupid mwah ha laugh, childish yes but it was our little thing!   

A lot of the guys were heavy gym goers and some were pretty big lads, some weren't quite so big but thought they were!  This kind of levelled the playing field with everyone just flexing away at each other!  The mwah ha ha needed work though and someone added in Arnie style, "is it cos I is massive" in a little dig back at all the punters who said every night to us "is it cos ....." 

The massive bit we loved adding it to our drive by flexes and for some reason one day I greeted a few of the guys with

"Massive like a Rhino!"  

That was it and the rhino madness began, someone found a cheap energy drink which featured a rhino in its logo so we all started drinking that at work.  Then, and I will take full childish responsibility for this one, I was waking past a toy shop in Harrogate and saw a badge making machine!  Cue me buying it and a dozen bottles of the energy drink so I could peel off the labels, Blue Peter style!