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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Ginger nut elbow cracking make-a-wish challenge.As a child, my mother told me that if I could crack a ginger nut biscuit into exactly three pieces by holding it in one hand and hitting it with my other elbow, I could make a wish.
Presumably the implication was that the wish would be granted, but since I never actually managed to break a ginger nut into three pieces with my elbow, I never found out.
No one I've ever met seems to be aware of this tradition.
I still attempt it every so often. But not in company. Ginger nuts are great. Especially when red-haired people ask what kind of biscuit you want.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 16:11, Reply)
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