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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The long winter evenings just flew by.Heres a couple of weird traditions from my younger days.
Going on long car journeys with the whole family, me and sister would play the bridge game. Basically, once a bridge was spotted on the horizon, we would both start to raise our hands, saying "up...up...up...." right until the bridge passed over us. By this point our hands should be touching the roof of the car, where we would both say "Touched it". Trust me. The journey time just flew by.
Another one, somewhat related to this, when we arrived at the caravan site we visited pretty much every year, Low Field Farm at Filey, North Yorkshire, the farm buildings were all on the side of the road/lane leading to the camp site as you went in. In one of the farm buildings was an advert for 'Calor Gas'. It became quite the game going into the camp site to be the first to spot this and shout out 'clr gs' or some variation there of, before my sister did the same. Funny thing...we never played this game on the way out of the camp site.
And finally....this one I just can't stop myself doing. Remember the *old* University Challange theme tune with the timpani stabs? I kinda miss those. So I add them myself. Its disturbingly satisfying to add a 'ba-ooom' where they used to go :-)
Do I know how to party, or what?
(, Fri 29 Jul 2005, 10:58, Reply)
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