What have people thought your letters spelled?

[Manda903]

i can't decide which is more annoying but i hear all of these

triple A..as in the car club

and the triangle refrence

[TerryHepner]

Hell I have had my letter mistaken by another greek before.

Two years ago I was out at a Remington Park OKC for the Kentucky Derby wearing my letters, Sigma Tau Gamma (STG). In a crowded section of the park, a guy came up to me shook my hand and introduced himself. I thought it was a member from another chapter in Oklahoma, but about telling me his name where he went to school and which horse he was going for he realized that he misread my shirt and thought I was a Sigma Pi (SP).

[orchid2]

This is hilarious! I've gotten "What is OIM?" by a random person at the grocery store.

[CutiePiPhi]

This is kind of random, but it has to do with letters. I'm a Pi Phi and every time I see our letters, I always think of N.B.O. It's from the book "Summer Sisters" and means Never Be Ordinary. Sometimes I refer to Pi Phi as NBO in my head, lol.

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally posted by CutiePiPhi
This is kind of random, but it has to do with letters. I'm a Pi Phi and every time I see our letters, I always think of N.B.O. It's from the book "Summer Sisters" and means Never Be Ordinary. Sometimes I refer to Pi Phi as NBO in my head, lol.

That book is the sh*t.

[orchid2]

Originally posted by CutiePiPhi
This is kind of random, but it has to do with letters. I'm a Pi Phi and every time I see our letters, I always think of N.B.O. It's from the book "Summer Sisters" and means Never Be Ordinary. Sometimes I refer to Pi Phi as NBO in my head, lol.

flashback ... Isnt that what wishinhopin named her local?

[Wine&SilverBlue]

Originally posted by orchid2
flashback ... Isnt that what wishinhopin named her local?

ahhah i was thinking the same thing!

[Xylochick216]

Last night when my family was watching the Texas/Michigan game, my dad thought he saw some fraternity letters and couldn't figure out what they were. He kept saying it was Chi Alpha something, and I couldn't figure it out. I finally realized he was looking at a shirt that said TEXAS and he had only seen half of it. He's still learning about this whole Greek Life thing since his school didn't have it

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
ahhah i was thinking the same thing!

For real!
Edited because I didn't realize I was in the wrong thread!

[KDwxgrrl]

I was wearing KD flip-flops at work one day (I'm a day camp counselor over the summers) and one of my girls said "My mommy has a shirt with K-Triangle on it!" Turns out her mom is a KD alumna!

The year I rushed my Rho Gamma told us that some girl told her that it was cute that she made a Greek letter shirt for her major. Her major was public relations, and the girl thought her shirt said "Pr" instead of rho gamma!

I have some Tri-Delt friends who went to a movie wearing letters, and some guy walked up to them and said "What's with you guys? Do you really like triangles? Are you in some kind of triangle club?"

[preciousjeni]

Not a misreading, but funny nonetheless...

Last week, I was participating in an in-person session a for work related training program (it's long term so I've developed relationships with my training peers). The gentleman I sat next to for a two-day intensive workshop is a Que. We chatted at length and eventually caught the attention of the Delta sitting to my other side. The three of us hit it off and were "partners" for the rest of the training period.

During the second day, the Que surprised me with a little gift: an Omega lapel pin, because I'm a Quette (wife of an Omega). He told me to wear it with pride and be recognized. So, I thanked him and went ahead and put it on as a regular pin since I didn't have a lapel. At the end of the day, I was walking out and another participant stopped me and said, "You're a mentor!"

I had no idea what he was talking about until the Que told me that the National Mentoring Partnership had chosen the Omega as their symbol.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

when it was on my car a toll booth operator asked me

"What is Zero M?" (cos some people write 0 with a strike through it!)

Other sisters have gotten "I-O-M"

Some people just don't even know what to say...Whatever, as long as they're not asking me about OM!

[MSKKG]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

It really kills me when Greeks don't know the Greek alphabet!!!

Isn't it considered hazing to make NMs learn the Greek alphabet? Good grief!

I was wearing a windbreaker with my letters on it when I went to vote (I was still in college at the time). Obviously, the gamma was covered up somehow. Someone asked, "KKK?" I had to pull the windbreaker taut and said, "No, Kappa Kappa Gamma."

[macallan25]

Southern Area Elitist

[ADPiLove]

It wasn't me, and it was a professional fraternity (Phi Alpha Delta), but one of the girls always has people ask her what sorority she's in when wearing her letters. She says PAD fraternity. It never fails that they will respond with no, PAD sorority. It drives her nuts, considering that she would know whether she is in a sorority or professional fraternity.

No one has ever asked what mine are, mainly because A triangle Pi is kinda obvious that it's not something else.