Yard Sign!1!1!!!1!!!
Hebe and I came home from working/cheering the last chance meet tonight to find a 4'*2.5' sign in the yard
OMG. How wonderful and Wacky and Amazing. you Americans are insane with your high school sports malarkeyism! But WOW O WOW O WOW. Way to make someone really feel part of a team -as a freshman, it can be intimidating to suddenly be group with the kids who've been together for 4 years, especially when they were the first ever kids on the team. Gestures like this mean so much. Even if we are right in the middle of River Rat territory and it'll probably get egged......
Isn't it just? I heard a rumor about lawn signs and so was half-prepared to be asked to fork out cash for some commercial 12*18" thing..... didn't expect anything like this!
skyline sublime
sweeeeet!!
Good for Hebe and good for her hard working Mom who has been there every step of the way!
Are you saying that monster is a control freak?
no, she's saying I'm a swim-taxi....
That's a really nicely painted sign.
Glad to see they didn't do vinyl.
What is this I don't even
did jim just pass out there..?
anyway - cool freaking sign!!! Good on Hebe and good on her mom!!!
YAY!
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
If she'd had a big head to start with, she might have been an only child.
Just saying.
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....
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.
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!
Another team, another sign. Not so much of a surprise (although making the state team as a freshman was), no hand-made sparkliness, but still awesome to come home to. The sign fairies are busy. And the rivalry between the rats and eagles is somewhat more ferocious (to say the least) in women's water polo........
not sure if there will be a pic. prolly. If all y'all promise to behave.
That was my b-ball number. :)
Love that pic of her!
Most excellent. Go, Hebe!
That was my b-ball number. :)
Love that pic of her!
She was trying to be all sullen and embarrassed, but failed ;)
Also, noticed the "#1A". It's good to see a team adopting hexadecimal numbering.
If only the NFL would do that, they would have enough numbers.
is there rivalry between 1 and 1A?
is there rivalry between 1 and 1A?
No, they are the goalies. 1A is the JV goalie and will only play in an emergency or if we are slaughtering the oppo.
Also we don't really have two 17s, not sure how that got messed up -one should be #6 :lol:
Thanks guys. that's her "fresh out of the pool" hair.
Sods have scheduled practice for 9am on Memorial day.....
Also, noticed the "#1A". It's good to see a team adopting hexadecimal numbering.
If only the NFL would do that, they would have enough numbers.
:thumb:
With names like Isaac and Stuart, it took me a minute to realize they were using last names. First I couldn't find Hebe, then I was like, "Who the hell names their kid Buschhaus?"
one of those kids first names is Dillon, though
I love how we have left beemer and right beemer, -the headlights, maybe?.......