Re: Event

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:53:06 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> I am glad my school doesnt have a swimming pool yet (it's new, that's
> why). I would not tell a soul about that tradition! :). Anyway that
> reminded me of a 'custom' that we had in high school. On birthdays,
> guys
> (sometimes girls) would get punched in the arm as many times as
> their age.
> If the puncher went over the number,  the birthday boy/girl could
> sock the
> other person in the arm as hard as they wanted. It was horror, people
> would end up with big bruises (some people hit hard!). I fortunately
> didn't have that happen but I saw it happen to a few people.
Ah, Birthday Punches!
And then one for good luck,
and one for bad luck,
and one for something else that i can't remember at the moment.

Near the end of highschool people generally either didn't get it, or if
they did, didn't care enough about the 'propriety' of the tradition and
whacked the person punching them right back.  :)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Humans take revenge - God punishes."

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