Funny reasons you may have been cut

[ADPi Conniebama]

great thread I am going to make it manditory for some of the collegiates to read this thread - might help them put things into perspective. (with recruitment right around the corner again)

[PhoenixAzul]

Oh boy...I've shared this before but here we go again (and I'm still HORRIFIED that I did this).

There is this one house on campus that I absolutely KNEW I would not fit into. Not that theyre not an awesome house- au contrair, theyre one of the best on campus, just really not my type and I wasn't quite their type either. So went through house tour, and when we were sitting in their parlour, I noticed their taxidermied owls in the room. I was having a hard time making conversation, just striking out left and right, couldn't find anything to connect with...so finally I thought, "ok, let's try an interesting tid bit".

And I said, "you know, I come from a town with a lot of different ethnicities, and a lot of people believe that having owls or pictures of owls is a death omen".

Cue pin drop.

And I 100% didn't mean to insult them, and I KNEW the second it came out of my mouth that I had said something stupid. I was HONESTLY just trying to make conversation any way I could. Needless to say, I didn't get an invite from them. (my pledge sisters STILL won't forgive me for that).

[Duchovnysfan]

It was during Philanthropy Day and and this one house we went to we made cool beads and such. Anyway, I was talking to the first girl (you know the one who pretty much guides you when you get into the party) so we introduced ourselves and to make sure I didn't forget her name, I kept saying it everytime I made a comment, like "oh that's really great *name*" and "So *name* what made you decide to join this sorority" and so on. We had a really great conversation and in the middle I stopped using her name b/c I said it enough to remember or so I thought. Towards the tail end, *she had a name tag on*, of the convo, I had a complete brain freeze and asked ,"What's your name again?" oops! I completely forgot and apologized profusely for that. She was really nice about it and still talked to me a little more before she switched off with someone else. The next day I got my invites and found that that particular house didn't invite me back, I was a little shocked at the time but in retrospect I believe it was because I had a memory lapse and forgot her name. *facepalm*

[Scandia]

From what I remember:

- I took a napkin erroneously from one house.

- I accidentally spit a little while talking in another house.

- I tripped and fell on the steps of a third house.

More likely than not, I talked about things that I probably should not have mentioned. I was very socially awkward back then- this was 10 years ago when I rushed.

[FirstAndFinest]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

And I said, "you know, I come from a town with a lot of different ethnicities, and a lot of people believe that having owls or pictures of owls is a death omen".

Cue pin drop.

That sounds like a scene from a movie! Thanks for sharing!

[kkgamma_grl]

Around the time recruitment was going on, news had spread around the city that there was a bus stop slasher going around. During one of the parties, "the slasher" had come up in a conversation and coincidentally a friend of mine witnessed the crime at the bus stop across the street from his house. so I mentioned my friends account of it, and a bigger crowd of girls were gathering to listen. At the end of the party I felt that everything had gone well, and before leaving I said something along the lines of, "bye, watch out for that slasher."

haha... i guess that house found what i said really creepy because i definitely wasn't invited back. lol.

[Regina Filangie]

I was at a party at one house that (rightfully) had the repuation of being...er... a little stuck up. I was trying to be on my best behavior and come off as cute and fun but still prim and propper. I was talking to a girl that had the personality of a fruitbat so I was desperatly searching for conversation when another girl came out and handed me a cup of lemonade and a cookie. I didn't want to eat the cookie (because then I might accidently talk with food in my mouth and that would be inappropriate) so I was just holding it. Well I guess I was just focusing too much on making small talk and not holding the cookie because it just slipped out of my hand and fell. They must have made the cookies in June and froze them over the summer because it was like a brick. It hit the floor and shattered into millions of pieces launching cookie shrapnel across the room. All the actives that saw it, including the one who I had been talking to, gave me this look like I was a bucket of manure that happened to find my way into their house. Most of the PNMs just laughed but I knew at that minute that I would be cut and honestly I didn't care at all!

[gotrojans!]

Originally Posted by Regina Filangie

IWell I guess I was just focusing too much on making small talk and not holding the cookie because it just slipped out of my hand and fell. They must have made the cookies in June and froze them over the summer because it was like a brick. It hit the floor and shattered into millions of pieces launching cookie shrapnel across the room. All the actives that saw it, including the one who I had been talking to, gave me this look like I was a bucket of manure that happened to find my way into their house. Most of the PNMs just laughed but I knew at that minute that I would be cut and honestly I didn't care at all!

You are too funny! I was laughing out loud at "cookie shrapnel" for 5 minutes straight!