By Staff
November 16th, 2017
BURLINGTON, ON
How many people have seen the man trudging along Guelph Line between Palmer Drive and Mainway carrying a sign and wearing a costume?
Who is he – why does he do this?
Captain Crazy Pants – selling an oil change service.
He is Captain Crazy Pants, a performer who walks for 40 hours a week and is paid by Pro Oil Change, a company in the business of changing the oil in your car.
He doesn’t identify himself but they eyes behind the mask are those of a younger man who speaks well and is committed to what he does.
40 hours a week – walking up and down a busy street is commitment.
They are tucked in behind the Husky gas station on Mt Forest and while they have a sign it is hard to see from Guelph Line – so Captain Crazy Pants trudges up and down Guelph Line wearing the sign that promotes the location.
The oil changing bays are tucked in behind all the trees. A couple of blocks south there is a national oil change franchise beside a different gas station. Competition at its best. The little guy gets innovate and holds his share of the market.
He says the work he does keeps his boss in business,
When not “walking the line” Captain Crazy Pants has done impersonations of Captain America, Spiderman and Batman.
Capt. Crazy Pants is entertaining and always puts a smile on my face.
Reminds me of my childhood in another city and our much loved traffic policewoman dancing on the median directing traffic at a tricky intersection.