I was wondering if anyone has any humorous stories from Recruitments past, possibly ones that weren't so funny really at the time...
I'll start off:
Until recently (as a result of this incident) we had been permitting our brothers to wear their letters out to the bar. This was allowed because we've never had any problems with the current brotherhood regarding disruptive behavior/fights/ect while out at the bar. The logic was that the mere act of drinking in your letters wasn't disrespecting them, it was how you behaved. Since we were all very well behaved (especially in letters), we didn't see a reason to make people change after jersey day, which is on the same day we always go out to the bar.
All of this worked out fine until my Son (little brother) Laki and I made a stupid mistake. A guy named Josh who is a friend of Laki's had rushed our "rival" fraternity (nicknamed the Digs), and was regretting it. Also, his girlfriend loved us to death and was pushing him to drop shirt and join us instead. This guy confided in Laki that he was planning to drop the Digs. With this knowledge, we voted to shirt him if he did. Sure enough, a few days later he tells Laki that he's dropped them, so Laki and I decide to shirt him when we all go out later that night. Laki puts the shirt in his pocket.
We're at this nice, calm little outdoor restaurant/bar hanging together with a ton of Sig Nus and various girls, and Josh tells us how cool it is we can wear out letters out to the bar and represent. Laki takes this cue and says "Yeah, we love doing it. You should too!" and tosses the shirt to Josh. It was a great moment.
Later that night we are all getting ready to leave this other place, and suddenly like 15 Digs show up outside like a lynch mob. Someone had seen Josh wearing our shirt and told them, and they were beyond pissed and mostly wasted. Turns out, Josh hadn't actually told them he was dropping shirt, so this was the first they heard of it. We had about equal numbers, and they were up in our faces trying to get us to fight, but I managed to calm things down by appealing to the less antagonistic guys.
After that, we re instituted the ban on wearing letters to the bar, and banned shirting there too obviously. On another note, if the guy who was 2 inches from my face the whole time ever does that again, i'm going to break his jaw.
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