Ain't no parade like a Shriner parade

Manchester's St. Patrick's Day parade is just around the corner. And while I'm a big fan of the Irish, I don't think I'll make it out for this year's march down Elm Street of all things Hibernian.

I've never been a big fan of parades, and given that Manchester's two biggest parades — in celebration of Christmas and St. Patrick's Day — are held during cold weather months, I'm generally disinclined to attend them, much less participate.

This past August, however, I was eating lunch in The Shaskeen one Saturday or Sunday afternoon when I first heard, and then saw, this:

Apparently the Shriners were town for a convention of some sort and decided to grace us locals with a parade. But not just any parade. A parade made up almost entirely of mini vehicles driven by men in Fez hats.

That's not to say there were no floats at all. But who needs lame floats filled with smiling, waving - and let's face it - boring people when you could have this float which, while mildly offensive, still beats your standard parade entry any day of the week:

The pinnacle of the parade, however, was, without a doubt, this:

If this is how parades can be, I just might have to join the Shriners.

Comments

[David]

damn shriners, your videos don't work by the way