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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Not so much weird, I suppose......as potentially dangerous.
My father's family comes from northern Ireland. It seems that every year on St. Patrick's Day my great grandfather, and then my grandgather, always wore orange and marched in the Orangemen's Parade. So Dad insisted as I grew up that I carry on the tradition.
I found myself having to explain very calmly to people that it was family tradition. When I lived in one area it wasn't so bad, as people there were not as staunchly Irish, but when we moved to another area I got some very ugly responses indeed.
For several years I wore colors other than either green or orange on that day. Now, as an adult with kids of my own, I wear orange, but since their mother's family comes from south Ireland and are all good Catholics, they tend to wear green.
Sorry, Dad, that's one tradition I'm not going to try to enforce. It's bad enough being a Yankee living south of the Mason-Dixon line without adding that to it.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 30 Jul 2005, 4:53,
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