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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near death experiencemy friend emily's parents live in the middle of nowhere in cheshire. it's a tiny hamlet called lyme handley, [inbred] population = 83.
i passed my driving test just after easter when i was 17. and decided to drive over and see emily. i was hooning it around the little country lanes in my shiny red beetle [if only i'd known about all the people being punch buggied as a result]. finally, on the corner right by her house, i had hit nearly 50mph in what should clearly have been a 20mph zone. i was totally on the wrong side of the road.
when to my horror i realised it was a blind corner. and, even worse, there was another car hurtling round it - thank god also going faaaar too fast and on the wrong side of the road. we both finished up on the verge, sweating and panicking. and who was driving it?
emily.
we had missed a head on collision only by virtue of both of us being too inexperienced and stupid.
so now it's tradition whenever i drive there with her to say: "careful around this corner" and "i know, plenty of dickheads in blue renaults/red beetles around here"...
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 11:33,
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