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On bid night, we do our pledge oaths with the new girls. And in it there are some very anachronistic ritual type words. Of course our president says repeat after me and the pledges will repeat each line after she says it. Well, one line was particularly long and filled with "difficult" words. The president said the line and the pledges just stood there silent and embarassed. This happens every year at the same line!
We had a ritual when I was a pledge at some of our girls' townhomes. They had crazy neighbors on the ultimate frisbee team who decided to blast some serious jungle music during a VERY serious ceremony. When we heard the guys jumping around, dancing and singing next door, the actives lost it.
We also have a lot of distasters due to the fact that pledges can never look behind them during rituals. They always have to close their eyes. When they have to be lead down flights of stairs in formal ritual attire(heels and all)...well...every year we hear a yelp as a pledge eats it down the stairs.
On pref night, we have something where we light eachothers candles in a circle. But since it's a fire hazard now to use real candles, we have to use these plastic ones that you twist the base and a light comes on, emulating the "flame" of the candle. Well, as we went around the circles, we got to one girl and her candle wouldn't light! It was awful. We just had to keep singing round after round after ROUND of "sister, sister, hello" until her "lit," which wasn't until she had to actual shake it and hit it. Kinda broke the solemnity of the moment.
Just this year at formal, I was called up to the front at dinner to lead chapter in "Ring Ching Ching" and I guess I had a few too many drinks. As I walzed across the dance floor, I struck my fork against my crystal flute and it shattered all over the floor. The hotel management was not exactly elated about that one.
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