Last night we went to the local TGI Fridays. It’s good food, close to home, they mail us lots of coupons… and most of all is a nice loud environment where we won’t bug people with the boisterousness of our babby.

So we’ve all seen Office Space, and remember the Jennifer Aniston character workin at Tchotchke’s, gettin hrearled about her flair, and how it absolutely was comdedy stabbings at TGI Friday’s flair-centric uniforms at the time.

And then a few years ago, (around 2005, because I care about you enough to do the internets research) TGI Fridays left the suspenders and rear endon flair behind more polished looking uniforms, because the servers didn’t like wearing cheesy suspenders and tons of rear endons. Go figure.

I don’t know if they were trying something new last night, or if it was a theme night or something? But everyone was in plaid shirts, some were in cowboy hats, country western music played on the loudspeaker. Huh? It was for sure something new, because folks were showing up to work in their brand new cowboy vests getting oooh’d and aaaaah’d by coworkers.

Josh still saw the big ol stripey ties on hostesses… But wait, what? You guys are going country? It was weird. We’re not anti-country western theme, it just seems an odd direction for the restaurant to go.

Here, let me illustrate it for you. For your perusal, the Flowchart of Flair:

I’d be interested to know if the Long Beach Town Center location is a test site for the new westerny flavor? Who’s in the know, shed some light on this here rodeo!