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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dib dib dib! nob nob nob!As a kid, I used to belong to the cubs, in a particularly dodgy council estate in the wonderful town of Slough.
Every year we'd all go on pack holiday to the new forest, and stay in the church hall in a small village. About 30 cubs, Akela, and the various other adult helpers who Akela had told us were his sons.
The first ever night, on my first ever pack holiday, Akela told us we were going to play football in the church hall before we went to bed.
Hooray!
Then the cubs started taking all their clothes off.
As us new kids froze in fear and bewilderment, some of the older boys kindly told us that it was "traditional" for us to all play football stark bollock naked. As all the adults, i.e. Akela, and his "sons" (not all of whom, with hindsight, actually looked much like him) stood around and watched us.
Afterwards we had to queue up and file past them, still naked, on the way to the showers. Any boy who displayed a state of erectiveness was taken to one side because this was very naughty. I don't know what punishment they received, but they tended to look a little shellshocked afterwards. Thank christ it never happened to me...
Needless to say, Akela told us all that this "tradition" was a special cub scout secret and so we must never tell our parents...
(, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 13:42, Reply)
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