A parable (work in progress)

[cormac]

When I was in high school, the only people allowed to wear Letterman jackets were members of the Varsity football team. That rule was established decades ago, when the school was founded. Of course, back then there no women's sports, and the only other sports at the school were intramural, or existed only in PE. Over the years, as academic

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[usqueba]

I got my Varsity Letter in band. *I* didn't want a jacket but we had some band members who had a jacket and a letter that was exactly like the football players. And the track members. And the cheering squad. And the basketball players, etc.

I still don't want a jacket. A letter might be nice. I think I could get one in sleeping. Or eating.

[dieppe]

It sounds a lot like the SCA, i.e. that medieval organization we're involved in...

[cormac]

No, no, no. Absolutely not. Didn't you see my tag? "Not at all about the SCA." And I also clearly said at the end of the post that no high school politics exist in the SCA. This has nothing at all to do with the SCA, and any resemblance to anything remotely resembling the SCA is purely coincidental, and all in your head.

[usqueba]

Frequently, things are "all in my head". I can deal with that! ;)

[kythera]

Interesting. I got a letter in high school for academics. But fuck if I wanted to wear one of our traffic-cone-orange leather jackets. GAG!

[matrygg]

I took my academic letter home and gave it to my mom, and that was the closest I ever came to getting a letterman's jacket.

[penumbren]

Hehehe.

[ermine_rat]

I think I earned a letter in golf, or cross-country or track, but I didn't want to be identified with the dim bulbs that were playing football and absorbed 95% of the sorts budget.