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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Public schoolMy school decided to invent a new tradition 510 years after opening. They rigged up the rusty old school bell on a stand with a xylophone beater and at the start of the school year got the youngest kid in the school to come up on the stage and ring the bell. At the end of the school year the oldest kid had to do it. A new line in public humiliation.
The girls also sat on the left side of the hall for morning assembly and the boys on the right. This made it easier to divide into halves for the hymn that our psychotic music teacher decided had to be sung first by the girls, then the boys.
Home traditions were that every time we went to Wales to see my grandparents (every school holiday) we listened to possibly every John Denver album known to man. This means that 15 years later I still know all the words to possibly every John Denver album known to man.
The Christmas tree goes up on December 1, the day after my birthday, and the fairy/angel/woman in dress (who incidentally is a dead ringer for Camilla Parker-Bowles) goes on last. And on the way to Wales the John Denver albums are swapped for... John Denver's Christmas albums. And Slade and so forth.
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Maladicta, Fri 29 Jul 2005, 18:07,
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