Weird TraditionsTalking with a friend yesterday about school dinners, she suddenly said, "We had to march into the dining room behind the School Band... except on Thursdays." Since all of us were now staring, she qualified this with, "...on Thursdays there was no wind section. It was a tradition."
What weird stuff have you been made to do "because it's a tradition."
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chthonic, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 11:11)
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Winter maintenancealthough more along the lines of "lies parents tell you".
On visiting grandparents a week before the winter solstice celebration* we passed a number of workmen removing rubbish from the central reserve. My sister asked why they were doing it the week before the yule festival, to which my dad replied it's traditional to clean up the roads before major public holidays so they look nice for all the people making special journeys. My sister believed this unquestioningly. She was in her twenties.
The best bit is that I now work in highway design/maintenance, and it's actually true! (OK, true in a taking a fairly radical interpretation of the facts way)
*this is funnier if you've read my other post, or possibly not.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 13:12, Reply)
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