'Gin and Tonic?' Queue for Queen Kept Entertained by Office Antics
Workers at a London office kept people queuing up to see the Queen entertained with live music, a guessing game, and an offer of gin and tonic, among other ideas.
The offices of the company wherefrom, a sustainability review platform, are based on Mill Street, one of the areas around London filled with people waiting in line to pay their respects to the Queen.
In a viral TikTok video from the company’s @wherefromuk account, members of the team can be seen taking their turns in trying to entertain the crowd.
The video, shot on September 16, had been viewed over 2.5 million times at the time of writing and includes a rendition of Oasis hit Don’t Look Back in Anger, an animal-based guessing game, a flash poll about Crocs, and a promise of gin and tonic, which proved very popular among those queueing up.
Among the many congratulatory comments for the TikTok video, one user wrote, “I was in the queue when this happened, amazing you lot are.” Credit: wherefromuk via Storyful
Video Transcript
- Yeah, but do they want a gin & tonic?
[CHEERING]
[LAUGHTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
(SINGING) --in bloom. stand up beside the fireplace, take that look from off your face. You ain't gonna burn my heart out.
[MUSIC - "DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER"]
(SINGING) So Sally--
Can anyone tell me what animal this is?
[SHOUTING]
- Eagle!
- Everyone is wrong. It's called--
- A whale?
- A pine marten.
[CROWD GASPS]
- Would you guys like to be part of a poll?
- Go on, then.
- You have to answer one simple question.
- Go on then?
- Would you ever wear this Croc?
[LAUGHTER]
ALL: No.
- No.
- Is there any yeses in the crowd?
- It certainly goes with my top.
- Yeah? It goes to your top, yeah!
[LAUGHTER] You've got 1 out of 100, then. Cheers, guys.
- Woo!
- Who next? Right!
[LAUGHTER]
