Drones are dumb and dangerous and kind of cool, and TGI Fridays is dumb and dangerous and kind of cool. What happens when you put one of these things inside the other? Practical considerations have thus prevented a TGI Fridays from being erected inside a drone, probably because no aircraft, no matter how sophisticated, is capable of lifting more than three leaden mozzarella sticks without bursting into flames.
We must settle, then, for a drone inside a TGI Fridays, and the drone will be carrying mistletoe because god forbid anyone be allowed to forget even briefly that it's The Holidays, and for an extra $2 you can have your pinecone schnapps ladled from a bleached reindeer skull! The gimmick is called "Mobile Mistletoe," and it sounded almost effervescently stupid even before it drew blood.
Trouble for the Sheepshead Bay TGI Fridays began with the arrival of the Brooklyn Daily reporting team, consisting of a writer and photographer. According to reporter Vanessa Ogle, "drone operator" David Quiones wanted to land the tiny flying machine on the writer's hand, inexplicably. The writer apparently flinched, though "flinched" was maybe a polite euphemism for "flailed wildly," because the drone careened off course and straight into the face of photographer Georgine Benvenuto, slicing off the tip of her nose.
“It literally chipped off a tip of my nose,” Benvenuto told the paper as she dabbed at her face. “It took off part of my nose and cut me here, right under my chin.”
Quiones insisted that a light Yuletide bloodbath would do nothing to dampen the TGI Fridays holiday spirit.
“If people get hurt, they’re going to come regardless. People get hurt in airplanes, they still fly,” he said. “There is a risk involved—anything flying, there is risk.”
He's probably right, judging by the total lack of sympathy evinced by other diners. “It was like a scratch on her nose,” an unperturbed Karim Turner told the paper, probably while twizzling a Cosmo 'Rita Shaker with an unwashed Bowie knife. “I’ve seen far more worse blood than that.”
