In this Lunch Rules document, some junior high school girls outline the strict requirements for eating lunch at their table. It cracks me up that even though rule 7 is "no outsiders to table" and rule 9 is "have to be on the list," the last rule is "love your neigbor!"
The rule that surprised me most though, is rule 8: "Have to get 5 hugs from boys by the end of the lunch to be able to sit w/ us the next day." When I think back to my junior high school days, I don't recall much if any hugging going on during lunch. In fact, I don't think anyone in my school could have fulfilled this requirement. What happened, is the American junior high school lunch room now a massive hug-fest?
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Hugging was the standard greeting/parting ritual in my crowd in junior high (early 80s, Utah), but we were a pretty tight group.
We did get a lot of shit for it from the jocks, though. You'd think they'd clue in to the fact that the displays of affection they derided us for also had the pleasant side-effect of physical contact with the opposite gender, but the fact that we would also hug people within our own genders was too much for them to deal with.
It all comes down to the definition of "neighbor," doesn't it? It doesn't have to include outsiders. "Love your neighbor at the table" probably sums it up....
Thanks for posting. Crazy.
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