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

[speedsters]

two funny stories:

my pledge class wasn't told when our initiation was, instead we were told it was a sisterhood retreat. well the night before was a huge party thrown by one of the fraternities which everyone at the college goes to. so about half of my pledge class was hungover for initiation, and while waiting and spending forever in a classroom they wrote "if you wanna be a ZTA" to wannabe by the spice girls. when i arrived right at the end of initiation and heard all the stories and the song it was priceless. we try now to arrange it so initiation is not after this party. i have also never been to one of our pledge class initiations because they are always when i had a regatta for crew, so i always missed out on all the fun.

this year our pledge class has identical twins and when they did the formal pledge ceremony they were together and when they were repeating things they sounded like one person, it was so freaky.

[AGDee]

My Initiation was held in the oldest building on campus which was very pretty most of the time. Lots of things have changed since then but at that time, we used only candlelight, which was no big deal because it was late morning on a Sunday. This day though, it was really stormy so there was no natural light to speak of. There was one part where we individually kneeled on a cushion for a vow. Just as the gal in front of me kneeled, there was a HUGE crash of lighting/thunder and everybody just stopped in their tracks and then the giggles set in. The President got herself composed and continued. When I kneeled, everybody just kind of stopped again, like they were waiting to see if it would happen again. The President and I made eye contact and the giggles took over again.

I can say that, as a regional officer, one of the most interesting parts is going to all the Initiations and seeing how they botch it. I had one chapter tell me one year "We voted not to wear white this year" HUH???

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I had one chapter tell me one year "We voted not to wear white this year" HUH???

I love the lightning/thunder story. So dramatic!

[carnation]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I can say that, as a regional officer, one of the most interesting parts is going to all the Initiations and seeing how they botch it. I had one chapter tell me one year "We voted not to wear white this year" HUH???

O. M. G.

[DZRose]

after an initiation our chapter performed a DZ tradition of "The Loving Cup" Ceremony. For those of you that aren't familiar with what a loving cup is, it's a 3-handled cup (in our case, it was a LARGE silver urn-type "cup" that looked more like a trophy given to us when the chapter was founded in the 20's) that we pass from member-member and say a little saying as we pass it, simulating drinking (or if liquid was in it, actually drinking). Anyway, it's a really neat tradition and we did it after each initiation.

This one time, the girls decided to put some fruit-punch in it instead of just plain water. Well, we all wear white to initiation and one of the new members didn't realize that it actually had liquid in it (I'm sure you can see where this is going) and when she hefted it up to her mouth, nearly 1/2 of what was in there rapidly moved to the front of her dress. It's a solemn moment, the ceremony, but a bunch of us just couldn't help it and bust out laughing. It was hard to contain it...and we kept sputtering laughter the whole time. Thanks to some bleach and quick-thinking, the dress was saved and no-one was the wiser.

It was hilarious when it happened, obviously it's a you-had-to-be-there moment...but that's the only thing that I could think of.

[Katmandu]

No real horror stories from my GLO, but during initiation to a auxiliary of an ROTC group, we being led blindfolded into a room carrying lit candles.

Blindfolds
Crowded, narrow corridor
Nervous, giggling freshmen women
Open flames
Farrah Fawcett "wings" with hairspray
= Risk Management nightmare.

The smell of burning hair electrified the few people in the room who were able to see, and brawny ROTC men soon "put out" the poor girl in front of me after I managed to catch her on fire. For the rest of the year, every time I saw her, with her thinning spot, just to the left of her ear, I felt sooooooo guilty. Fortunately, she was unhurt, but I understand why groups don't allow open flames anymore.

The next year, initiation was changed a bit.......and I became known as "Sparky the Wonder Girl"

[Ilaria Ame]

one day during our process the room we usually had our meetings in was reserved. being resourceful, i offered use of my dorm room for the day. well....at a very solemn, quiet point in the meeting we noticed a loud moaning coming from the room above us. sure enough, as we stayed quiet, we realized that there was a couple above us having very...vocal sex. we all laughed our asses off, even though we got fussed for it. i mean, how can you just stand there listening and NOT laugh after awhile?

[Ivygirl8985]

yeeeaaahhh sorry I didn't realize it was an inside joke :P I was honestly just really shocked when I read it! Sorry!

[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.