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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I spent the past month in South Americadon't get me started on weird traditions.
I think my favorite was when my group visited a traditional Quechua community, who lives way up in the mountains of Peru and preserve the ways of their ancestors.
When we arrived, a woman came out to greet us with a bag of confetti, and proceeded to dump a handful on each of our heads.
This is pretty cool, I thought, getting a handful of confetti dumped on my head, and watching my travelmates get the same greeting. However, they were all wearing hats, and the paper bits came off with a quick shake. I, on the other hand, chose to go bareheaded that day, and as a result, looked like this for the rest of the week:
(, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 21:09, Reply)
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