I'm trying to remember the last time I attended a ribbon cutting. I think it was at my friend's hubby's grand opening of his real estate brokerage in League City. It was all very professional: the local Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors were there in their fancy maroon blazers and name tags, armed with their own stack of personal business cards... There was a nice reception in the office afterwards, everyone mingled for a while, but by 9:45am, the party was over and everyone had to head off to work... After all, what good is a Chamber without any Commerce? (or Pot, or Maid, or Lain for that matter?!)
But a Chamber ribbon cutting on Galveston Island??? And for IBC's very own WILLTHING??? I'm sorry, but that just won't cut it.
Enter the first ever residential-keg party-ribbon cutting by the Galveston Chamber of Commerce. Yes, there was a keg of Shiner. Yes, there were homemade hors doeuvres (pictured below in the "food prep-slash-launder-ing facilities room" - please don't call it the dryer). Yes, there were Chamber Ambassadors, and yes there was a ribbon and it was fantastically cut (the funny extra-large clown scissors really do have a working blade!) by Willthing himself.
(note the approval and glee on Halvsie's (Sean O'Leary) face after seeing how Will handled that ribbon)
I'm afraid the VP of WILLTHING Operations, shown in the above right photo, was not in the best mood that day - she just wasn't feeling the group pictures.
(I like that there's a pinata that is about 11 months old hanging just above the Ambassadors' heads - they all took it in stride, though and I'd dare say it didn't seem to phase them a bit!)
