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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traditions, or maybe my family's a bit obsessive-compulsiveSee a VW Beetle, punch the person next to you and yell "Slug bug (color)!" Two hits for VW busses, "Double bug (")!"
Hold your breath through a tunnel and make a wish, which is difficult under what seems to be three connected tunnels in downtown Seattle.
Blow up something strange on the 4th of July- such as a rubber chicken or toy army men.
Dressing up nicely every Thursday.
Buy a slurpee (no slushies, no other cheap immitations) before the first swim meet of the summer.
Get sloshed the night before leaving a foreign country.
Buy a Charlie Brown tree for Xmas.
Always yell “Buns of steel!� at cyclists.
Similar to White Rabbit, but it’s “Happy Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Day.�
If you see a license plate with two letters or numbers in a row, you hit someone once. Three in a row, two hits etc., and call out “double (letter/number)�
Yell “Shut up!� at radio commercials before changing the station.
Pinch someone whilst going past a monkey puzzle tree, say “Monkey tree, can’t touch me.�
Pauses in conversations with friends are usually ended swiftly with my reaching for their boobs, regardless of gender.
Roll down window and yell “moo� at cows. “Baa� for sheep, and “LLAMA!� for llamas.
If my mom or I have an object in our hand, and we are confused, we put it on our head.
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