I always enjoy seeing the signs put around for area kids and their various sports. School spirit always did mean a lot to me.

Good on Hebe!

It was just such a surprise to us! A nice suprise. It's great.

Back in my day, there was usually a toilet papering job involved during the sport season, too. It was actually an honor to get toilet-papered. :lol:

I bet kids don't do that anymore, too tough on the environment. And the "bad" kids are making pipe bombs.

If you want, I'll come up and toilet paper your yard for you. Have you yet had that uniquely American experience? ;)

Not yet...... and I hope not to, but you know what those river rats are like.

I have no idea what else might be in store, though. apart from outlaying more $$$

I don't understand - where do the signs come from? Who makes the signs? Are there sign ferries?

Yeah, there are big boats that take the signs back and forth, to and from the island.

(Students, cheerleaders, team members, student council, etc and so on.)

Monster, I might be the only poster so far who really comprehends how peculiarly-amazing this is.
I know to an extent you've gone native (and so you should), but this is wonderful in such a foreign way.
Very cool potatoes.







Well done and all that, Hebe. Just don't get a big head.
(Just to add some proper English encouragement)

If she got a big head it would be harder to push through the water.

If she'd had a big head to start with, she might have been an only child.


Just saying.

If she got cocky, she'd have her own rudder

I always blame her ears for the c-section

Here, for the feetball players they, the pep squad (?), paint up the players' cars and local bidnesses. One year (a hunderd year ago, when I was still in school) they painted my car, by mistake. They did a pretty good job, my maroon Monte Carlo, all done up in blue & white, looked almost patriotic. If I'd been a feetballer, Ida been flattered. So, I raised hell.

Got mah car washed by the cheerleaders. In uniform.

Hellyeah!

I painted up the car for regionals last weekend -with the Eagle logo no less..... at 13, she doesn't have her own car....

It's still a tradition around here. The Zings HS cross-country and track coach lives next door. At the end of every season, the team would TP the tree in his front yard.

My mom recalls when she was driving to our HS (a big rural school) and going through the small town near there.

The entire main street had been toilet-papered. Every tree lining the street, and the TP floated out over the road. She said it was like nothing she'd ever seen, like driving through a fairy world or something. She's still in awe of it.

Fun times. I remember my friend's mom driving us all over the place, in the middles of nowheres in some cases, to TP. Sometimes we got busted. I remember one family (kids our age) chasing us back to Mrs C's car...we jumped in and Mrs C took off, family chasing us until they couldn't keep up anymore. Go Mrs C Go!