Normally I don’t post on weekends, but this is too awesome to not share.

Two of my friends who I have known forever got married today, because I’m old so that’s what all my friends are doing these days, so of course I went to the wedding and, afterward, the reception. It was the best of those receptions, one of those Super Geeky Types, which meant that the dance music consisted of stuff like the DotA song and Dragostea din Tei, which were promptly met with cheers upon being heard.

Now I don’t know exactly how and when this particular request got started, but at some point our little group of friends was standing around and someone wanted to know if the Safety Dance was on the playlist. Cue sheer panic from the bride and groom… “No, we forgot the Safety Dance”… followed by disappointment from the requestee…

And then, because my friends know me very well, all eyes were on me.

“Pike,” they said, because yes, people call me Pike in real life. “Pike… do you have the Safety Dance?”

Of course I did. It was on a CD in my car.

“Pike. Only you can save the wedding reception.”

So I got the CD. We queued up the song. Then we all did the Safety Dance, complete with the “S” motions with our arms.

“You know,” says the guy next to me halfway during the dance, “This song always reminds me of that boss in WoW.”

Ayup, that’s my friends’ circle for you.

And that is the story of How Pike Saved the Wedding. /deep bow