Most funny/unsual/inappropiate thing that happened during a ritual.

[SydneyK]

One year, we held our initiation in one of the religious buildings on campus (I don't remember if it was the Baptist Student Union, or the Methodist Center, or what, but you get the picture). We were in a sanctuary of sorts, and there was this big huge cross hanging on the wall. We had set up part of the ceremony to take place just under the cross because it actually seemed appropriate. Well, wouldn't you know, just as we got to that part of the ceremony, the cross FELL OFF THE WALL. It scared the sister under it something fierce! We never held initiation in that room ever again.

Another time, one of the sisters was in a car accident on her way to initiation. She wasn't badly injured, but the windshield had broken, and her face was cut up. Her little sister was being initiated and she told the ER staff that she had to go, and if she felt like she needed more medical attention she'd come back. Well, at one point during the ceremony, a piece of glass became dislodged from her forehead. She brushed the glass away with her hand. Unfortunately, she brushed the glass into her eyeball. She refused to leave until she saw her little go through. She watched the majority of initiation with one eye closed. There are sisters who, to this day, still call her "One-Eye Erin".

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

We were in a sanctuary of sorts, and there was this big huge cross hanging on the wall. We had set up part of the ceremony to take place just under the cross because it actually seemed appropriate. Well, wouldn't you know, just as we got to that part of the ceremony, the cross FELL OFF THE WALL. It scared the sister under it something fierce! We never held initiation in that room ever again.

Sounds like Fred Hatchett was trying to send you a message.

[LucyKKG]

I'm a charter member, so I've only seen one initiation (my own). No one passed out in ours, but I've heard it happens pretty frequently. I'm the Marshal (in charge of ritual in Kappa), so I'll make sure we have plenty of fans and glasses of water just in case!

[icicle22]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

One year, we held our initiation in one of the religious buildings on campus (I don't remember if it was the Baptist Student Union, or the Methodist Center, or what, but you get the picture). We were in a sanctuary of sorts, and there was this big huge cross hanging on the wall. We had set up part of the ceremony to take place just under the cross because it actually seemed appropriate. Well, wouldn't you know, just as we got to that part of the ceremony, the cross FELL OFF THE WALL. It scared the sister under it something fierce! We never held initiation in that room ever again.

That is almost eerie.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

One year, we held our initiation in one of the religious buildings on campus (I don't remember if it was the Baptist Student Union, or the Methodist Center, or what, but you get the picture). We were in a sanctuary of sorts, and there was this big huge cross hanging on the wall. We had set up part of the ceremony to take place just under the cross because it actually seemed appropriate. Well, wouldn't you know, just as we got to that part of the ceremony, the cross FELL OFF THE WALL. It scared the sister under it something fierce! We never held initiation in that room ever again.

Another time, one of the sisters was in a car accident on her way to initiation. She wasn't badly injured, but the windshield had broken, and her face was cut up. Her little sister was being initiated and she told the ER staff that she had to go, and if she felt like she needed more medical attention she'd come back. Well, at one point during the ceremony, a piece of glass became dislodged from her forehead. She brushed the glass away with her hand. Unfortunately, she brushed the glass into her eyeball. She refused to leave until she saw her little go through. She watched the majority of initiation with one eye closed. There are sisters who, to this day, still call her "One-Eye Erin".

What sorority is this, Daughters of Satan (Theta Sigma in Greek)?Just joking!!!!

[MaryAmanda]

So Coyote had initiation earlier this week (hooray!), and we had a couple of mishaps...

First, there's a part that...well, let's just say it's in a moderately open location, but at a time you wouldn't expect anyone to be in this particular place. Well, this guy literally just up and walks straight through our ceremony! I mean, you'd think it'd be pretty obvious that it's not something you can just waltz into, and...yeah, pretty disrespectful.

Second, there's a part involving candles, and let's just say that something caught on fire...

[CartoonJunkie]

We've had our far share of dumb things happen but yesterday takes the cake.

We were setting up in the basement for our Big/Little revealing and were just about done when we noticed water dripping out of the ceiling right in the middle of the room. All of a sudden the flow of water increases and water starts gushing out of the ceiling and flooding the floor. We had to grab all of our stuff and run it up stairs and call maintenance. We moved our ceremony upstairs and during the middle, the maintenance people got there to fix the toilet, so we're trying to do our nice serious ceremony and we hear them talking, "yea, it looks like the toilets leaking". Kind of killed the mood.

It was just a good thing it happened before we started the ceremony. The little sisters would have been standing directly under where the leak started. That would have been horrifying for them.