International Talk Like A Pirate Day is cool and all, but I think that pipers of all sorts the world-over really should have their own day.

Starting September 24th 2008, I propose pipers everywhere start the first ever annual International Play Your Pipes At Work Day, occurring the last Friday of every September.

I imagine different possibilities...

• play in your cube briefly and then hide your gear away when someone comes to investigate -- sneaking into a stairwell works just as well and probably covers more building area
• arrange something with your employer to put on a show at lunch -- your coworkers will appreciate something different and think you're cool or finally leave you alone
• go out into the parking lot
• go to a park
• go somewhere that won't cause you to get fired
• go somewhere that will cause you to get fired if you want to get out of your job because how cool and weird a reason to have as having gotten fired
• try to blend in with the folks in the smoking section -- "Hey, what kind of pipe is that?"
  
• play somewhere weird that will get you notice but also play somewhere safe (ex. if you're a flagger on a road construction crew, its probably not so safe to play right on the road)
  
• play for the sake of advertising your skills & services as a piper
• play to help further piping and the publics awareness of piping
• play for the sake of showing how cool what you do is and to show up that loud-mouthed jerk you work with who snubs you for playing pipes instead of something "normal"
• play to see if someone will buy you lunch because -- hey -- free lunch!  try and disprove the old saying
• play any kind of pipes (but it has to be of the genre of instrument -- banging on the plumbing in the bathroom doesn't count)
• play to do something cooler, more distinct and unique than Talk Like A Pirate Day
• play for the glory and furthering of piping
• play because it's probably more fun than what you're getting paid to do on the clock
• and be sure to play a round of Happy Birthday for BagpiperDon (9/28 -- WOOT!)

And if you don't play pipes of any sort, you can still participate by playing a piping CD!  Even better, play a BagpiperDon CD -- available now via my Merchandise Page.