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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Toilet Paper City

I suppose the fall traditions of schools vary by region and size of cities and towns but then again maybe not.  In any case, I was reminded  rather graphically last week as I drove early in the morning  into town to take Lily for her  hike at the dog park.  Having been retired from the local high school for a few years I'd forgotten the late September calendar of events....

 
 
 
Of course, it's Homecoming Week!  How could I forget?  A little later I had to stop at the local anti-coagulation  clinic for a blood test (INR).  As usual it was packed with fellow senior citizens awaiting their turn for the blood letting and busily disparaging the youth of today for their bad behavior.  Toilet papering  the town, on this occasion, seemed to be at the top of the list.  I mostly keep my peace until finally contributing that it could be much worse things as evidenced by a few personal recollections of my own misspent youth these many years ago.

21 comments:

  1. i was a random toilet-paperer. i'd hit homes of popular kids and athletes when it was NOT expected. :)

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  2. Usually the night before the BIG game.

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  3. Oh Yes-----I remember seeing lots of that when my sons were in high school. The hardest thing was when OUR yard got t-p'd. Cleaning that stuff up was MURDER.... That was NOT fun... ha

    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  4. Ah, being retired. My story is that during the first winter of my retirement, we'd experienced a huge snowfall. I called one of my friends and said "Happy snow day!" She replied, "... it's Christmas break." ;-)

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  5. Just finished Shadow Diver. I loved it! Thanks so much for the review. :-)

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  6. I hated cleaning up those messes! (and my kids weren't even athletes)

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  7. Our house got hit the year our daughter was a Freshman...it was cheap TP so the rain melted it quite nicely. No harm in TP:)

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  8. Indeed.

    When my neighbors complained, as the remnants from my trees decortaed by my sons friends merged onto their yards, I had to bite my tongue. Oh, such a mild infraction.

    Of course, I recalled visiting bathrooms in gas stations in my youth - to "borrow" the toilet paper. Didn't tell my kids that part.

    Also, my dad loved when the kids came to "TP" or house. He'd look out the window and giggle. He was an old teacher and probation officer.

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  9. I'm sure that, compared to what I did, my mom would have been THRILLED if all I did was TP a few trees.

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  10. In this little town the roaming decorators are given free rein. I am glad I got missed when I coached.

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  11. Old people seem to enjoy having a moan. There are worse things to worry about these days. I hope the students enjoyed decorating the place with paper.

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  12. Kids these days. LOL I do have to say that I have never seen a better job of TPing. I guess kids have more money to spend on TP then we did back in the day. They must have stopped at Costco to get all this paper.

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  13. You have to admit those kids have good arms. It sure does seem the lesser of many evils they could get into.

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  14. Amen. We do indeed need to put everything into perspective.

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  15. It might come in handy if they topple the out houses on Halloween. ;)

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  16. What a funny tradition! Really, not as destructive as some.

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  17. Blood letting? I feel your pain. Ha

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  18. I never toilet papered as a kid. It does make a mess!

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  19. TP-ing, a great high school and college tradition, unless you have to clean it up.

    My best-ever TP job was at the Delta Sig house at NIU when I was pledging in the spring of 1970. It was nothing short of a masterpiece and kids in the dorms were wondering why the TP was so gone.

    RoadDog

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  20. Ha ha ha. I just graduated from high school last June, and we had a tradition of dressing up the school's main statue in drag.

    The administration made a big show of catching the culprits but they were in on the joke.

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