Guess what I saw!
 

You are walking down the street and you glance up and notice someone is wearing the letters of an organization you are pretty sure they don't belong to. What do you do?

This happened to my fraternity brother who went into Popeye's and noticed a man wearing a t-shirt for a D9 sorority...:(

May have been a Husband, boy friend or father of a member?

I would have asked who they were related to or what!:)

No, that wouldn't fly. You do not wear the letters if you are not a member of that organization. Only exception is a "I am a mother/niece/cousin/etc. of a XYZ" t-shirt.

Maybe the man was homeless or just poorer than most of us. Either way, I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have (nor probably cares about) knowledge of greek organizations.

He just saw a cheap shirt at Goodwill and that was all the motivation he needed to purchase it.

If your a husband of....
 

So, in your org. a husband could not wear your letters? If I see a a person wearing my letters and it's a guy I just ask him a question and wait for the right reply, and then give him a grip and wait for the right reply. I love when I bump into my fraternity brothers.

-Heath
*F&AM, PHA-Cedars #64
*PHI TAU

Re: If your a husband of....
 

No man I marry will be outside (or inside for that matter) with Zeta Phi Beta on his body. Unless it's a "My wife is a Zeta" shirt, like my Soror said.

As someone else mentioned, often times people find greek letter shirts at goodwill or salvation army. I've seen homeless people in Philadelphia with fraternity letters on all the time...it happens. Have your brothers or sisters donate their letter shirts to the house rather than the local thrift store, and this won't happen, but I doubt it is malicious.

It probably was a homeless person that Frat saw. I was just speaking from the standpoint of someone wanting to do it purposefully.

Re: Guess what I saw!
 

Mind my own business.

leaving the MARC yesterday, I was in the car and I saw this old man in the lobby with the biggest AKA shield on his chest. He was with his wife, so I'm hoping it said "my wife is an aka" or something like that, but it was just so funny to me cause all I could make out was this old man being dragged around the hotel with this HUGE shield on his sweatshirt... I guess that's why they call them "honey-do's" :D

LOL. Yup, that's part of the "honey-do-ism." I sure wish I had one. *le sigh.*

Hmmm, reminds me of when a guy in my dorm got a Kappa shirt from Goodwill and wore it for Halloween -- along with a miniskirt, fishnets, and completely tarted-up makeup. He was a "sororislut".

Too bad he ran into a group of Kappas later that night who completely b*tched him out. :D

THAT is why you should donate your old letter shirts to your local chapter, and not sell them at Goodwill!

As sad as it is, I remember the LA riots when there were loads of people looting the greek store near USC. There were a bunch of people walking around with greek gear, that were most obviously not greek..that is unless it was the greeks doing the looting. j/k

WOO WOO WOO Sawrah! You'll find a honey-do in due time.

Honey-do's are so great! But, I cannot imagine dragging my future HD to Boule or Regional Conference.

That's funny. My friend is a member of DST and she said that our piano player for the choir came to choir rehersal with a big AKA shirt on. :confused: I must have died laughing. I don't think you should wear any letters that are not your own unless it is a my wife/husband/mother/father is a ...

Some people are just dumb though. I took my little cousins to my high school with me about 2 yrs ago. (I was in college, but I came to visit a teacher.) They had on shirts that said MY MOM is an AKA or Future AKA shirts and this girl was like...:eek: "Oh My Gosh. They AKA's???" She was all amazed...I was like yeah they sure are. They pledged at daycare.

I met a guy once and I had my jacket on. He ASSUMED I was in a sorority so he was trying to impress me saying that he was a Kappa (KAY). We talked for a few weeks and I knew he was lying. He kept changing his line name, line's name, and number. He claimed that all his pari was somewhere else. He didn't know the chapter name of the school he was claiming, he didn't know the founders and furthermore he did not carry his self like a Kappa Man. :mad: I hate when people lie....just tell the truth!!!

I know! This was my first Regional and I had so much fun with my 1800 sorors in attendance... I can't imagine having an ol' clunky HD weighing me down! :D

I was in AlphaBets when I was in middle school (kind of like charm school for 12-14 year olds?) and I remember wearing my t-shirt to school one day, and my teacher, who's a soror, stopped me in the hallway and very seriously told me that I was NOT supposed to have that shirt on. Looking back, I realize that didn't make any sense at all, because it wasn't even an AKA shirt per se, but at the time I was so scared! All I could do was stand in the hallway and say.. well, my mom is an AKA! And she said, oh, ok... you can wear it then! :p

point....laugh....take a picture....

nah, i'm playin.....i'd probably be too dumbfounded to do anything. but knowing me, i might say something.

lolllllllll@Pledged at Daycare

tehetehetehe

LOL the teacher was about to put you in the cut for wearing that shirt.:D

*shrug* i've heard of people get beat down for less.

Too FUNNY!!!

Putting you on BLAST!!
 

Well, I had a similar situation happen to me about three months ago. I was at a Blacks Arts Festival here in Tampa near the University of South Florida. I saw a MAN (about 25 years old) with MY LETTERS on!! He had on a Blue Jersey with with white Z Phi B letters on it!! At first I tried to approach him nicely about the shirt. Then it got ugly as he REFUSED to take it off even after I offered to buy it from him. He wanted me to pay him $200 to take off the shirt!! YEAH RIGHT!! Anyhow, There was security around and not much I could do. HOWEVER, I did manage to take a very clear full length picture of him with my camera phone! I posetd that picture up EVERYWHERE on EVERY GREEK WEBSITE!!! I also informed Sorors and frat in the area as well. (I am new to the area). His day is coming!!

Sidenote: After thorough research I came to find out that he does this on purpose to try to get money (ex" me offering to buy his shit). He does this on PURPOSE! He just doesn't know. That he has a beatdown waiting for him when he least expects it!

Also, my fiance' is my frat. I would NEVER where his 'nelia. Why? I have my own.

Re: Putting you on BLAST!!
 

LOL i remember reading this story on the listserv soror....

Yeah, dude with the funky dreads, right?

Soror, what would you have done?? I called my fiance' at work. He was like' "Beat his a*%!!!" "Rip that shirt off of him!!!" LOL!!! He would have done it!! Hey, but you know how rowdy OUR frat can be at times!!

Like I said... I've seen people get beat down for less!


Hey how's Ruthie and Darlene doing, Soror?;) I miss KL!

Re: Guess what I saw!
 

So, are we just talking jersey's here? I mean as far as someone wearing a social shirt or maybe a sticker, that's fine with me, I think of it as promotion for my sorority. But if they're wearing a jersey or the shirts with sewn on letters, that's just crossing the line!

Re: Re: Guess what I saw!
 

I was referring to anything that has your orgs letters on it. I know for Zeta only members can wear our letters.

Re: Re: Guess what I saw!
 

You know, its always amazed me when I have seen white frat members wear a shirt or what not with a white sorority's letters on it, and vice versa.

So is that viewed as okay?

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I think it depends on the org. one of my sisters was the Sigma Chi sweetheart, and she would wear his letters (actual stitched letters on a sweat shirt) all the time, and no one ever said anything- people made a bigger deal about double lettering!

It is ok to wear screen print though. We wear AXO- XYZ mixer/homecoming/etc shirts all the time. I have Sigma Chi derby days shirts that have the letters on it, a phi tau mixer shirt and a phi kappa sigma homecoming shirt.

Intense1920...YOU KNOW HIM!!
 

Girl, you've seen him too?? Or you've just heard??!!

To co-sign with what my Soror said....As far as ZETA goes....NO ONE, I mean NO ONE wears ANYTHING with letters Z PHI B on it unless you are a member. Unless it's a D9 shirt (which I have seen).

Sorors,, how do you feel about other Sorors wearing Sigma shirts and vice versa. I met a Soror once and she told me that where she was from it was normal for frat/soror to wear each other's shirts. I was apalled! So was my boyfriend (now ex) at the time (who is a Sigma and checked her quickly!!) I mean it was a Sigma shirt all the way!

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See, that's amazing, because with BGLO's, it is unheard of for you to bewearing someone else's letters, fraternity, sorority, whatever.

It's looked at as disrespectful if you did not earn your way into that particular org and are wearing it's letters.

Re: Intense1920...YOU KNOW HIM!!
 

As far as that is concerned, I would not wear a Sigma's shirt because I didn't pledge Phi Beta Sigma.

(any further convo on this should be taken care of on the ZPhiB board!) ;)

Re: Intense1920...YOU KNOW HIM!!
 

I got the numerous emails. LOL. Hopefully I will never see him.

As for wearing Sigma nalia naw we don't do that around here. The closest you may see is a ZPBS shirt. I want one of those actually.

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its considered disrespectful if its stiched on letters, but its common to see screenprint. Now that I think of it, I actually have other shirts besides fraternities. The SDT yougurt-a-thon has all our letters on it. I've seen shirts from other schools that have a Greek week with the letters of all the participating orgs on it.

its acceptable if its screenprint, for NPC.

Re: Re: Intense1920...YOU KNOW HIM!!
 

I got one!:D

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I learn something new everyday! Thanks for sharing!:)

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No problemo :cool:

I don't think a nonmember is going to get that you see it as disrespectful. They probably just thought it was cool to have something in those colors or with those symbols.

They don't get it, and they're not going to. If they did, they would have joined a group.

Educate your members not to give their shirts to a thrift store.

Anyone who has access to the internet can pick these things up from ebay. Better yet anyone can walk in a nalia store and buy it. That's the dilemma we all face.