Here’s the scene: I’m in a Mexican restaurant in Ebisu. Mexican restaurant’s are not a dime a dozen in Tokyo like they are in Northern California. They are fairly rare. I’m enjoying some tacos and a quesadilla after a long week while sitting at the bar because there were no tables available.
During the course of dinner, my friend and I who were eating were surprised to see two tall, slender, hot girls come in promoting Captain Morgan Vanilla Spiced Rum. They were wearing hot pants, cowboy hats with lights on them, tank tops… the works. If you’ve been to clubs or bars in a major US city you’ve likely seen a similar type of thing. Hot women promoting alcohol or cigarettes. Nothing new but I was surprised to see it so randomly in a restaurant.
What happened next blew my mind. After about 20 minutes of those girls promoting Captain Morgan products to the customers, Captain Morgan himself comes in holding a huge treasure chest filled with pirate booty (one must assume). The actor was an American guy and was incredibly loud – he did a pretty good job. Basically he had customers that he picked out randomly pick a key from a key ring of many keys, “the keys to adventure” (I guess that’s an analogy for the rum? get drunk and adventure?), and then if they picked correctly the lock would open and they would get a t-shirt or some such. Captain Morgan was speaking English exclusively so it was funny to see the Japanese customers talk to him in English as well when responding to his ridiculous pirate themed banter.
Unfortunately the picture quality here is not very good. Clearly I have to end this post by asking – Got a little Captain in You?
Haha! I can only imagine the look on your (and everyone else’s) faces as he comes striding into the restaurant in that ridiculous getup.
It was epic. Sadly, I didn’t win any prizes.
I almost wanted to say “I didn’t get any of his pirate booty” but figured that wouldn’t be the best way to describe what I wanted to say. :-)