homeschoolmom Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Anyone have any weird traditions that you and your friends celebrate? Or maybe you and your family? I have some... but it's too late to explain 'em tonight... so I will let someone else go first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Me and a good friend of mine like to clebrate Singleness-Awareness Day on Velantine's Day. We also call it Boys Have Cooties Day. Then there are the weekends when two of my aunts come up to my house and we have a Girl's Weekend. We watch movies and eat food. I think I've gotten one of my best friends addicted to Girl's Weekends. And don't forget the Kentucky Derby. My family goes to my uncle's house and we hang out, drink mint juleps, bet on the horses and lose. :laugh: Yeah, I should have bet Smarty Jones this year Ok, HSMom...confess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 30, 2004 Author Share Posted May 30, 2004 Well, there's one... who else... c'mon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 30, 2004 Author Share Posted May 30, 2004 Well, okay... You have to be quite familiar with the Charlie Brown Christmas special for this to make any sense at all... and even then, it probably won't... and keep in mind this started in COLLEGE... but we weren't drinkers or anything and there are no drugs involved. Well, you know the music that the kids are all dancing to when they are supposed to be taking direction from Charlie Brown for the pagent...? It's the Vince Garaldi Trio and the piece is either Lucy and Linus or Linus and Lucy (I foget which... I could go look, but I'm not gonna)... Anyway, got that music in your mind? Okay... well... we have this thing... On Nov. 11 (which is 11/11) we all get together and at 11:11 pm, we all dance like those funky kids. We do the Pony and the Watusi and all of those other groovy 60s dances... While we dance, we shout "11/11, 11:11" Then we eat. Lately, however, we've had to do this tradition over the phone... <sigh> not as fun. HSDad and I are the only ones who have done it every year since we started it. We started this tradition in '87. We've done it every year since then. The 25th anniversary of this tradition is in 2011. It's a Saturday. We need help. :leave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 :crackup: That's awesomely odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 30, 2004 Author Share Posted May 30, 2004 I know... I also know that you and I aren't the only one with weird traditions... Hello??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Dude, I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musturde Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 I'm Middle Eastern, I should have some weird tradition but I cant think of one! bah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 A tradition of mine long gone was every year at our ACCY convention (Archdiocesan Convention for Catholic Youth) we would do Chinese fire drills, you know where you stop at a red light, get out and run around the car, and get back in. That all stopped when we got pulled over and lectured by a cop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) :laugh: We did the same thing. This isn't really a tradition, but when I attended our Diocese's Advanced Christian Leadership Institute, everyone was saying "I'm Brian Fellows!" and from across the room someone else would yell "Hang up dat phone, I'M Brian Fellows!"... Guess you had to be there... Edited May 30, 2004 by azaelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 One tradition we have at Christmas is to go to Midnight Mass, then when we come home (around 1:30-2 ish), we open presents and go to bed at about 4 or 5. It's fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathgirl Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='May 30 2004, 03:28 PM'] Well, okay... You have to be quite familiar with the Charlie Brown Christmas special for this to make any sense at all... and even then, it probably won't... and keep in mind this started in COLLEGE... but we weren't drinkers or anything and there are no drugs involved. Well, you know the music that the kids are all dancing to when they are supposed to be taking direction from Charlie Brown for the pagent...? It's the Vince Garaldi Trio and the piece is either Lucy and Linus or Linus and Lucy (I foget which... I could go look, but I'm not gonna)... Anyway, got that music in your mind? Okay... well... we have this thing... On Nov. 11 (which is 11/11) we all get together and at 11:11 pm, we all dance like those funky kids. We do the Pony and the Watusi and all of those other groovy 60s dances... While we dance, we shout "11/11, 11:11" Then we eat. Lately, however, we've had to do this tradition over the phone... <sigh> not as fun. HSDad and I are the only ones who have done it every year since we started it. We started this tradition in '87. We've done it every year since then. The 25th anniversary of this tradition is in 2011. It's a Saturday. We need help. :leave: [/quote] That sounds like soooo much fun!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 [quote]One tradition we have at Christmas is to go to Midnight Mass, then when we come home (around 1:30-2 ish), we open presents and go to bed at about 4 or 5. It's fun.[/quote] Cool...my father's family always opened presents on Christmas Day and my mother's on Christmas Eve...so we get twice the presents and do both! Unfortunately, I don't think that a massive number of presents was good for me...I didn't realize what Christmas was really about until a couple years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 I guess this isn't tradition as much as it was a funny story related to one of those Catholic youth conventions -- my two friends (they were sisters) and I went to McDonald's on the way home -- in the parking lot we made faces and were taunting a group of poodles sitting in a car and they were barking at us like crazy. We went into the restaurant, got our Big Macs, and came back out. Her parents said some people came up and asked them if they knew three blondes (that was us) and said they wanted us to help them clean off the car seats... because we [b]"scared the @#$% out of their dogs."[/b] My friend's parents told them they didn't know any blondes. But now whenever we say "BIG MAC" it has a whole different meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 A wierd superstition our high school soccer team had was whenever there were train tracks to pass over, we had to bring our feet off the ground and touch a screw somewhere in/on the school bus wall. How the ringleaders came up with this, I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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