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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Gun RunMy Dad was in the Army and every year they had a Gun Run, that is to say teams of Artillery Gunners would pull a field gun over a 12 mile road race.
Traditionally this was an all male endeavour but when I was about 10 they broke with tradition and a woman took part for the first time.
She was on the winning team and as they crossed the finishing line she stopped to take a breather and was promptly run over by the gun.
She was OK.
(, Tue 2 Aug 2005, 12:29, Reply)
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