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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school traditionsI do love a good tradition, and when I came to England I went to a private boarding school for the 6th form (age 16-18 to all the yanks). Sadly the usual abusive traditions were stamped out with PC-ness (they built character!!) like 'the gauntlet' where younger children had to run through a course made up of thumbtacks, pillow cases with books in and beatings from hockey sticks. However the most common tradition was the naked challenge (running around the school naked). If you heard the familiar sound of bare feet slapping outside your window you knew you'd see the drunken boys from our year running in all their glory (although the glory was significantly shortened due to the cold weather). My friend also got me obsessing over stepping on 2 drains for good luck and avoiding 3 drains as they were bad luck...until one day I pushed my sister into oncoming traffic trying to get her to avoid 3 drains...
(, Fri 29 Jul 2005, 11:13, Reply)
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