リモートワークがある程度定着してきた。僕は元々、今のような新型コロナウイルスに影響される世の中になる以前から、リモートワークが大好きだったし、電車に乗ってオフィスに行くのがめんどくさかったし、自分で勝手にズームのアカウントを取得して、移動しながら仕事をしていた。一時期「ノマド」と言っていい感じに言われていたような感じでで。
この辺りは「今更ノマドと言われても」「はじめの一歩 あるいは、達磨さんが転んだ的 働き方改革」をお時間が許せば読んでいただければ、と思うのですが。
そんな私でも、今、リモートワークに限界を感じていて、例え通勤時間が短縮されたとしても、生産性は上がらないんじゃ無いかな、なんて思ったりしているわけですが、その理由はこの記事で記載しています。よかったら読んでくださいね。
今日話したいのは、zoom飲みから思い出した、私が若かったときに遭遇した広告代理店の営業の人の宴会芸です。
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zoom飲みに馴染めない
ダメなんですよ、zoom飲みが。面白く無い。時間の無駄。まあ、元々酒は飲まないので、PCの前で、モニターに映った何人かの顔を見ながらお茶や水を飲みながらお菓子を食べるって、つまんないでしょう、と言うことなのですが、なんの変化と言うかいい刺激はないし。（人狼とかやるのは楽しいですよ。）
やっぱり実際に会って、そこにいる人間が発する何かを肌で感じとる方が、同じ飲み会でも刺激を受ける可能性が高いですよね。
（このことについても、近いうちに記事にしますね、お待ちくださいませ）
大学時代に遭遇した、体育会アイスホッケー部の抱腹絶倒宴会芸
で、今は少なくなったと感じますが、やっぱり飲み会といえば「芸」ですよね、宴会芸。
僕は、宴会芸と称するものに出会ったのは大学の体育の授業でした。僕が履修したのはアイススケート。軽井沢の外れのアイススケートリンクで1週間の合宿で行われました。大学の体育会のアイスホッケー部が指導についてくれて、合宿（授業ですけど）最後の夜に打上げがあって（授業ですけど）、ビールなども供されたわけです（授業ですけど）。20歳未満はもちろん酒類は飲んではダメ、と言うことで。
宴も酣。昼は授業でスケートを教えてくれたアイスホッケー部の面々がそれぞれ宴会芸を広してくれたのです。
最高に面白かった。これが体育会に面々と伝わる芸なんだな、と腹を抱えて笑いながらも感心したものでした。
ミュンヘンオリンピックの男子バレーの準決勝の対ブルガリア戦の死闘、日本の大逆転勝利の実況中継をスローモーションを交えて一人で再現する芸だったり（面白かったなー）、銭形平次の主題歌を歌って、歌い終わったらみんなにビールの蓋を、まるで銭形平次が銭を投げるようにその人目掛けてみんなで投げる、と言った破れかぶれの芸だったり。（若い人は、ミュンヘンオリンピックもわかんないだろうし、銭形平次も知らないだろうな、銭形警部は知っていても。）
僕はと言えば、その後社会人になっても、宴会芸を身につけることもなく、どうしても、と言われると、数人を引き連れて（一人でやるのは嫌だし面白く無いので）アブラハムと7人の息子をやるくらいですけどね。
で、今日、一番書きたかったのは、ここからです。
私がこの世に生まれて60年。人生の中で見た宴会芸の中で最も凄かったものを紹介したいのです。
それは、数秒の出来事だった
僕が社会人になって1年目。だからもう、40年近く前になるけど、築地に何軒かのしゃぶしゃぶの末広があり、その一つ（当時電通の本社があったビルかその近くだったと思いますが）で、忘年会があったのです。
僕は当時クライアントの立場で、宴会の相手は、まさに電通さん。
私は新卒の新人で、粗相がないようにするだけで精一杯だったんだけど、
宴がたけなわの頃、「おい、◯◯、そろそろやれよ」と電通のクリエイティブの方が、営業のどなたかに声をか家たのです。すると何人かが、「見たいぞー」「やってくれー」とそれに呼応。声は、クライアントサイドからも掛けられて、新人ながらに、これは面白い芸なのだろうな、と思い、一体、どんなことをするんだろうかと、想像と期待がどんどん膨らんでピークに達する頃、その方が、スックと立ち上がり、
「では、リクエストにお応えして」と立ち上がり上着を脱ぐと、そのまま壁に向かってサササッと走り出したのですよ。
あっという間に目の前に壁が迫ったのだけど、彼は走るスピードは落とさず、むしろもっと速くなっていく。危ない、と思った瞬間、
その人は、なんと、壁を猿のようにスルスルっと駆け上がり、天井まで行くと今度は天井に張り付いて数秒そのまま。そして床にストンっと着地したのです。
彼は出身が滋賀県と三重県の境あたり、と言ってたのですが、まさか、ねえ。
それにしても、あの芸は凄かったなあ。
もう一度見たいなあ。
いや、俺もやってみたいなあ。
で、実際私は、数年後に、本物の忍者から忍術を習うことになるのですが、その話は、また、今度。
（最後のトピックは、Quoraに僕が書いたこの記事をアレンンジしたものです）
Remote work has taken hold to some extent. I used to love working remotely even before the new coronaviruses that we have now, and I used to get a Zoom account on my own and work on the move. At one time, it was called "nomad" and it seemed like a good word.
If you have time to spare, I would like you to read "Even if you are called a nomad after all this time https://www.it16it.com/cafe/" and "The first step or the work style reform where Mr. Daruma fell down https://www.it16it.com/hatarakikatakaikaku/".
Even so, I'm feeling the limitations of remote work, and even if my commuting time is shortened, I don't think I'll be as productive as I used to be.
What I want to talk about today is the banqueting performance of an advertising agency salesperson I encountered when I was young, which I remembered from drinking ZOOM.
I'm not used to drinking zoom.
It's no good drinking zoom. It's not funny. Waste of time. Well, I don't drink alcohol by nature, so eating sweets in front of a PC while drinking tea and water while looking at some faces on the monitor would be boring, but it didn't make any difference or stimulate me. (It's fun to do things like werewolves.)
It's more likely to be stimulated at the same party if you actually meet them and get a feel for what they're saying.
(I'll write about this too, soon.)
The University-recognized ice hockey club's best funny Banquet performance that encountered in the college days
So, I feel that it has become less and less now, but after all, speaking of drinking parties, it's "performance", banquet performance.
It was in my college physical education class that I was introduced to the so-called banqueting performance. I took an ice skating course. It was a week-long training camp at an ice skating rink outside of Karuizawa. The ice hockey team of the university's athletic club was under the guidance of the coach, and on the last night of the camp (despite class), we had a party (despite class), and beer was served (despite class), and of course no alcohol was allowed to be consumed if you were under 20 years old.
The party is also at its height. At noon, the members of the ice hockey team who taught me how to skate in class showed us their performances.
It was the funniest thing ever. I laughed with my stomach and was impressed that this is the art that is passed down to all the members of the sports club.
There was a show where he reenacted the men's volleyball semi-final match against Bulgaria at the Munich Olympics in slow motion (which was funny), and a show where he sang the theme song of Heiji Zenigata, and after the song was finished, we threww at him the lid of a beer at everyone, just like Heiji Zenigata would throw a coin.(Younger people wouldn't know about the Munich Olympics, and they wouldn't know about Heiji Zenigata, even if they did know Inspector Zenigata.)
As for me, even after I became a member of society, I never mastered the performance of banqueting, and when asked why, I would only play Abraham and his seven sons with a few people in tow (because I don't like to play alone and it's not fun).
(Younger people wouldn't know about the Munich Olympics, and they wouldn't know about Heiji Zenigata, even if they did know Inspector Zenigata.)
As for me, even after I became a member of society, I never mastered the art of banqueting, and when asked why, I would only play Abraham and his seven sons with a few people in tow (because I don't like to play alone and it's not fun).
So here's what I wanted to write the most about today.
It's been 60 years since I was born in this world. I'd like to share with you the most awesome banqueting tricks I've seen in my life.
It was a matter of seconds.
This is my first year as a member of society. So almost 40 years ago, there were several shabu-shabu restaurants in Tsukiji, and we had a year-end party at one of them (I think it was at or near the building where Dentsu's head office was located at the time).
I was in the position of a client at the time, and my banquet partner was indeed Dentsu.
I'm a new graduate, and I was just trying to make sure there was no rough stuff.
At the end of the party, a creative person from Dentsu said, "Hey, ◯◯, it's about time. Then some people responded by saying, "I want to see it!" and "Do it! The voice was also called from the client's side, and even though he was a newcomer, I wondered if this was an interesting performance, and I wondered what the hell he was going to do.
He stood up, took off his jacket, and ran straight to the wall, "Well, I'll take your request," he said.
The wall was right in front of him in no time, but he didn't slow down, rather he went faster. Just when you think you're in danger.
He ran up the wall like a monkey, and when he got to the ceiling, he stuck to the ceiling for a few seconds. Then he landed on the floor with a thud.
He said he was from around the border of Shiga and Mie prefectures, but no way.
By the way, that performance was amazing.
I would love to see it again.
No, I'd like to try that too.
So, in fact, I'll be learning ninjutsu from a real ninja in a few years, but that's a story for another time.
(The last topic is an arrangement of this article I wrote for Quora.)
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