Pep Rallies and Such --- Anyone bother to go? - Page 2

June 7, 2007, 6:12 PM

We were forced to go to pep rallies in high school. I ranked it somewhere between painful and "balls in a vice". I would've been in a classroom. lol

June 7, 2007, 11:45 PM

Whenever I did go to the pep assemblies, I always booed at the jocks and at the players who participated in the games they held. Most of them seemed suggestive, making me wonder why the principal still allowed them to play them. What games? Allow me to elaborate...

Orange Squeeze
~Players line up in boy-girl order and must pass an orange to the other end of the line. The orange is held beneath the chin and it must not be dropped, otherwise they have to start over again.
-It pretty much looks like they're making out during the 'pass'.

Life Saver on a Toothpick
~Again, boy-girl order. Everyone has a toothpick in their mouth and the first person has a life saver on his/hers. Same goal as the Orange Squeeze; get the life saver to the end of the line. They cannot touch the life saver with their hands, so they use the toothpick in their mouths instead.
-Looks like a bad 50's teenage first-kiss scenario.

Spoon on a String.
~Boy/girl order once again. There is a spoon tied to the end of a long string. The spoon must be passed through the clothes of the people in line and the string must be pulled out at the end of the line. Boys pass the string up their clothes, girls pass the string down their clothes.
-Crabs, anyone?

Soooo yeah. Otherwise, I just hung out in the bathroom for about ten minutes as everyone filed into the gym, then just linger at the office until the bus arrived.

June 8, 2007, 12:35 AM

My whole class did that once, well, back 'home'.
But it was using eggs in plastic strapped to your belt and you had to swing it.
The first to team to break both eggs wins.
Rather weird.

Everything was mandatory too, cheerleading being the most embarassing one.

June 16, 2007, 6:25 AM

I think I remember having to go to one pep rally as Freshman in High School, but it was nothing as bad as what Shen had to endure. Sheez, I think I'd a rather stayed at home that day and watched 6 hours of Barney and friends.

Anyway, after that year I always hung out with the crowd that ditched classes or the entire day of school for that matter. So we always saw a pep rally as an opportunity to ditch the rest of the day without getting caught.

Lol... Never really bought into the whole Hight School Spirit routine.