What to do if you spot a random guy wearing your letters?

honeychile · #1 08-06-2007, 12:30 PM

Frankly, I praise God that I have the money to go out and buy a new shirt, and not have to be dependent on Goodwill, Salvation Army or such. If we can look at this and laugh:

I think we can all realize that, compared to the rest of the world, we're very rich, indeed.

shadowyi · #2 08-06-2007, 12:58 PM

Nwu I understand your question completely. I've seen many Asian friends go through rush and the pledging process. In a couple ways I applaud Asian greek life as it fosters very close bonds, sometimes even closer ones than other GLO's foster. Of course you'd be miffed that some random person who doesn't know the significance behind your letters is wearing them, but like what others have said, there's really nothing you can do without harming the reputation of LPhiE and being an ass yourself.

I'd combine all the advice and say that if someone's acting obnoxious in your letters, and obviously wearing them to give LPhiE a bad name, do the brotherhood tests/your equivalent and when he fails them all, ask him (nicely!) to relinquish his shirt. If it's someone who just thought the letters looked cool or something, walk up and go 'oh hey! Are you related to someone who's in LPhiE?' and take it from there explaining what LPhiE's about etc. They'll get the point. =)

macallan25 · #3 08-06-2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by shadowyi

I'd combine all the advice and say that if someone's acting obnoxious in your letters, and obviously wearing them to give LPhiE a bad name, do the brotherhood tests/your equivalent and when he fails them all, ask him (nicely!) to relinquish his shirt.

Haha........"Um, excuse me sir.......would you mind if I quickly administered some tests to you so I can see if you are a real SAE? Oh, what's that? You aren't one? You found it at goodwill? Oh, well I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you for that because you aren't a member of our fraternity. No......really........I'm serious. Take the shirt off and hand it over. Sir......put down the knife. It's just a shirt. I'll go buy you some food.......or how about some money for booze?"

AlphaFrog · #4 08-06-2007, 02:47 PM

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Haha........"Um, excuse me sir.......would you mind if I quickly administered some tests to you so I can see if you are a real SAE? Oh, what's that? You aren't one? You found it at goodwill? Oh, well I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you for that because you aren't a member of our fraternity. No......really........I'm serious. Take the shirt off and hand it over. Sir......put down the knife. It's just a shirt. I'll go buy you some food.......or how about some money for booze?"

You kill me. Throw an Earp joke in there and I'm statisfied for the rest of the day.

BSUPhiSig'92 · #5 08-06-2007, 04:25 PM

One of my brothers was in Tanzania with the Peace Corps and said that he would see people wearing old Greek-lettered shirts from time to time who had no clue what they meant. Apparently a lot of the clothes donated in this country wind up for sale in markets in Africa.

MysticCat · #6 08-06-2007, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

Haha........"Um, excuse me sir.......would you mind if I quickly administered some tests to you so I can see if you are a real SAE? Oh, what's that? You aren't one? You found it at goodwill? Oh, well I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you for that because you aren't a member of our fraternity. No......really........I'm serious. Take the shirt off and hand it over. Sir......put down the knife. It's just a shirt. I'll go buy you some food.......or how about some money for booze?"

Funniest post in a long time! Of course, maybe they're SAE Phillipines.

AlexMack · #7 08-06-2007, 10:24 PM

Why do people think that just because they're offended by a non-member wearing their letters, the offender is just going to relinquish them happily? They could give a rat's ass what the hell those letters mean to you, it's a piece of clothing and it's covering them up. You can't ask a homeless person to give up their shirt because you don't like it.

Unless you're Macallan. Then you get threatened with a knife. And then cut. Damn SAE perps. Always with the knifing and the drinking.

cuteASAbug · #8 08-06-2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by AlexMack

Why do people think that just because they're offended by a non-member wearing their letters, the offender is just going to relinquish them happily? They could give a rat's ass what the hell those letters mean to you, it's a piece of clothing and it's covering them up. You can't ask a homeless person to give up their shirt because you don't like it.

Unless you're Macallan. Then you get threatened with a knife. And then cut. Damn SAE perps. Always with the knifing and the drinking.

So does that mean you won't ask me for the Sigma Kappa sweatshirt I'm wearing now?

shadowyi · #9 08-09-2007, 01:57 PM

Calm down folks, you'll notice that I wrote 'acting obnoxious and to give the frat a bad name' (or something like that, bit too lazy to quote what I said. =P ) And I put nicely in parentheses, and might I remind you that these are suggestions. Way to jump all over someone's words.

nwu43 · #10 08-09-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AlexMack

Why do people think that just because they're offended by a non-member wearing their letters, the offender is just going to relinquish them happily? They could give a rat's ass what the hell those letters mean to you, it's a piece of clothing and it's covering them up. You can't ask a homeless person to give up their shirt because you don't like it.

Unless you're Macallan. Then you get threatened with a knife. And then cut. Damn SAE perps. Always with the knifing and the drinking.

If you read some of the earlier responses, asking them nicely and then offering to replace what they're being asked to give up can actually work.

And again, these aren't just all homeless people who can't afford clothes. Non-members who wear letters can be regular people who are just clueless about what they mean and got them (who knows how... ) because they thought it looked neat. In that case, trying to explain everything to them is not a bad idea. And as shadowyi said, sometimes they could also just be jerks who are trying give your organization a bad name

AlexMack · #11 08-06-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

Frankly, I praise God that I have the money to go out and buy a new shirt, and not have to be dependent on Goodwill, Salvation Army or such. If we can look at this and laugh:

I think we can all realize that, compared to the rest of the world, we're very rich, indeed.

I don't praise god but you're absolutely right Honeychile. This nation wastes money like it's going out of fashion. All developed nations do really.

honeychile · #12 08-06-2007, 02:09 PM

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I don't praise god but you're absolutely right Honeychile. This nation wastes money like it's going out of fashion. All developed nations do really.

Just so you know, the guy on the right was close friends with the ADPis at Appalacian State. When he told the man wearing the letters that he was wearing a woman's shirt, the man got all upset!