I don't know why but maybe this should be added to a tips preparation list. "If applicable, get tongue pierced no later than 6 weeks before recruitment begins. This is to ensure proper healing time." ;) Poor girl. She must have been miserable.

I may have told this one in another thread, but...

When I was an active, I was rushing this girl who was really cool, and I had been matched with her because she was an engineering major and in the honors program. We were doing that thing where PNM sits in a chair, and I was on the floor. Well, my leg kinda fell asleep, and when I went to stand up and walk her out, I went flying, and had to grap the chair she was sitting in to not fall. Of course, this was accompanied by some expletives...

That was the last time we saw her.:(

About twice a year I get a very severe allergic response to pollen, mold, and anything else that floats in the air during the season changes. This didn't start until I started college, so I hadn't yet figured out the timing to start preemptive medication. So, yes, when I was rushing, I had a pollen truck parked in my nose. For those of you with seasonal allergies, you know this is not a pretty sight.

I had snot running out of my nose, sneezed every 10 minutes, coughed like I had tuberculosis, and my eyes were practically swollen shut. I am blind as a bat, and during these allergy attacks, I can't wear my contacts. So I was forced to wear my old, very un-cute, coke-bottle glasses. I just KNEW that there was no way I was getting invited back! When I wasn't sneezing, I was rubbing my eyes - everyone thought I was moved to tears by their skits! Having to carry a wad of nasty tissue to the parties didn't help much either.

Luckily the women could see past the snot and I was invited back to my favorite houses every night and pledged my number one! To this day I still get rocked by allergies Labor Day week. I spent most of my active days laying in the floor at the back of the suite miserable. Now that I help out as an advisor, I start my drugs well in advance!

AHHHHH! Oh my god, i loved Wishbone!!! like even through high school, i thought it was so great! does it even come on anymore?...see, i would think something like that is cute, esp. since i love dogs...it's sad that your rusher couldn't find a way like that to connect to the convo :( esp. since Wishbone IS the coolest thing since sliced cheese ;)

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i had this happen to me during a candlelight my freshman year...i was standing under a vent...i swear a lot of the older sisters were like "WTF?! You're a freshman!" before i could be heard over the clapping that it was an accident :o

I posted this elsewhere, but figured it might go well here too. ;)

A good friend of mine loves to tell the story of her first rush party. She was very eager and right up in the front. Little did she know that the group would *throw open the door* and coming running at the PNMs singing, clapping and way too perky. She screamed in shock (horror?) and turned to run and ran smack dab into the rest of her rush group. :eek:

Thanks sageofages. I've edited due to my happy fingers. :rolleyes:

A story so nice...you had to tell it twice :)

I burst out laughing when I read the OP's story. That must have been awful!

My (biological) little sister had an awkward moment when she mixed up Phi Mu and Alpha Phi at Phi Mu's party. She and her Phi Mu rusher were talking about going abroad and she enthusiastically asked how many Alpha Phis went abroad every year. She said her rusher looked really uncomfortable and said, "Um, I don't know..." then changed the subject. She didn't realize she had mixed them up until later in the conversation and she tried to explain, but they never quite got back on track. She was surprised to be invited back for the next round but ultimately didn't pledge there.

Whoops!:eek: Oh well...she ended up in the right chapter in the end.;)

This should have been embarrassing for the PNM but somehow wasn't.

We had to sit on the floor for round 2, and we had a lot more girls than we were expecting, so it was really close quarters. All the girls are wearing cute knee-length dresses (so are we), and as they come in and sit down, they tuck their knees under themselves. Then my PNM comes in with no makeup, a short jean skirt, and a pair of black tights, and she sits down CROSS-LEGGED and there is a HUGE hole in her tights -literally the whole crotch is ripped- and she's wearing WHITE underwear. There's no way to not notice it, but of course I have to pretend like everything's normal. So I'm trying to talk to her, and she's kind of picking at her (uncombed hair). She finally cuts me off mid-sentence and says, "Do you think I should wash my hair sometimes?"
I have never been so glad in my life to be bumped.

Needless to say, she was not invited back. I don't think she pledged anywhere.

Sounds like a set-up.

I thought so, too, but a couple of my friends from other sororities mentioned her for the exact same reason. She was just really weird.

That HAD to be intentional...hopefully lol.

My first recruitment as a Sister had so many interesting issues.

I had to jump out of the way to avoid while still catching a young woman who projectile vomited all over the entrance of our party on the first night of recruitment. I felt bad for the poor girl and carried her right over to the Rho Gamma to take her to the bathroom across the hall. It completely ruined the party because a group of sisters and advisors rushed over to start cleaning up.

We are the perennial chapter who struggles in formal recruitment, so after it happened, me and one of my chapter sisters were like, "Really? We induce vomiting?" Definitely put a damper on recruitment, lol. We actually did decent that year - just one short of quota.

Now, the girl who talked about how much she loved chicken wings is a story for another day...

Hahahahaha!!!!! http://www.californiafirefighter.com...anim_rofl2.gif

Bumping this one! :)

I have loved this thread for years!

^^^ I'm with my Pi Phi daughter for graduation week...we both just got a huge laugh out of the Pi Phi/Wishbone TV show story (she loved that show when she was little).

I haven't seen this thread before...thanks for the bump!

Now that I'm graduated I feel like I can share!

During recruitment one year, a PNM apparently asked an active during our third round parties what color shorts to wear to match her Bid Day t-shirt from us. I don't know if she ended up joining us or not but I'm hoping the answer is no.

We also had a PNM display her "talent" as she called it up picking things up with her feet by taking off her flip-flop, dropping her napkin from the drink cups we'd passed out on the floor and then picking it up with her toes. It was bold, I'll give her that.

I mostly just feel bad for these girls because they quickly became the stories of our chapter. I hope they found other homes!

As a ballet dancer, I would just chalk it up to her doing strength exercises for her feet haha :) (I forgot that not everyone spends 10-15 minutes a day on foot strength...) I enjoy the hutzpah of the first PNM, but I would have just said "None"

Not an embarrassing story but just a cute one.;) During our formal recruitment in 1983 there were three of us with younger sisters rushing that year. Two of them looked very similar to their older sisters, but my sister and I do not resemble each other at all.
Party has started and my sister is happily chatting with a group of actives. Another active joins the conversation and asks "Where did you go to high school?" My sister replies "I went to Mater Dei." Active answers with "Oh we have two members who also went there. Do you know Sue _______ and (me)?" My sister smiles and says "Why yes I do know them." Active happens to see my sister's name tag at that moment and bursts out laughing when she realizes who she's been chatting with.
All three sisters pledged our chapter. :)

The first story has always been my favorite!

So I had older brothers who were in frats and had no idea what sorority recruitment entailed. While I was at a less competitive school I legit wore what I had worn to class that day to rounds. So all the girls were dressed up while I was in a hoodie and ripped jeans. You can take a wild guess on what my result that was.

This embarrassing rush story happened in the fall of 1959 and it involved my mother who at the time was the president of her Delta Gamma chapter. This was the first formal rush for the Gamma Chi chapter which had just been installed in the spring of that year. So needless to say everyone in the chapter was a bit nervous that year.



There was a young lady going through rush whose name was Thelma Thorpe. She was introduced on the first day of rush to my mother and my mom promptly replied "Hello Thorma Thelp it's a pleasure to welcome you to Delta Gamma." After the party, one of her friends pointed out her error and my mom was really embarrassed by her mistake. So she vowed to not repeat the mistake on the second day and diligently practiced "Thelma Thorpe" over and over that evening.

Second day arrives and my mother cheerfully welcomes her back to DG as "Thorma Thelp" AGAIN!!! My mom's best friend is discreetly pinching her to point out her mistake.

Thelma chose to drop Delta Gamma that day and went on to pledge Delta Delta Delta. ;-)

OH NO! I do that and now I'm going to start it up again! :(