Casual Friday

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Friday, Ice Cube's early work, still funny after 29 years. The late Bernie Mac is in his element in this movie. Rest in peace (RIP).

“Are you going to work dressed like that?”

“Yes mum. It’s casual Friday.”

That is why something was ‘off’ at the bank this morning. Tellers were in denim pants. It slipped my mind that it happens all over the world on Friday. I don’t know which country started CASUAL FRIDAY dress-down, but most countries have adopted it. Denim is the favourite ‘casual’ but office workers wear anything, as long as it’s not white shirts, ties and suits.

Not judges and security guards. They wear their uniform all week. The security guard was the only person in a uniform at the bank today. I don’t think the security company he works for would be amused if he turned up to work in denim pants and a tie dye T-shirt. Judges in denim pants because it’s CASUAL FRIDAY? I don’t think so. Offenders in the court room might think judges will give them casual sentences. Judges also do not have denim robes. They are black.

How about the police? Do they observe casual Friday? You know the answer to that. They are swamped on Friday, criminals robbing people of their weekly wages or trying to ambush fortified cars carrying the payroll. Delete the latter. Nobody is paid in cash anymore. Salaries and wages slide into our accounts. Hold it. They still do, in other countries. Another reason why the police do not do CASUAL FRIDAY is because of the hardware. They cannot leave at home firepower, handcuffs, batons and all those things in pouches around the waist, because it’s Friday. One day, I stood in line behind a police officer. I tried to guess what was in those pouches, but ditched the idea. I thought she might ‘feel’ the stare and arrest me for some misdemeanor, like stalking a police officer’s waist. I don’t know.

Nurses. No, they don’t have casual Friday because every day is casual. They were blue scrubs, pink scrubs, burgundy scrubs, lime scrubs you name it. I must find time and do some research on jobs associated with the different colours.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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