ladyrowan
August 2nd, 2001, 11:16 AM
Have just read Andromeda's post about the moon looking 'huge' last night, and it's sent my mind whizzing back over 30 years............
I was at the youth club with my sister and some friends. We were in the 'quiet room' where the hippies usually gathered to talk. The 'skinheads' thought we were too weird and usually stayed in the main hall.
This particular night we were discussing spiritual things, and a few of the skinheads wandered in to see what we were up to. On hearing the subject matter, they said that it was all a load of rubbish, no such thing etc etc, y'know the sort of thing.
So we offered to prove it to them, they said they wanted some sort of sign that we couldn't have faked, and so we asked them to come back a bit later so that we could work out the best way to prove it beyond any doubt.
Now, being young and inexperienced we couldn't give any proof at all, so we decided the best thing to do was to 'fix' a ouja board session (yes, i know i've been very much against them in previous threads, but this was a loooong time ago!). We worked out what our questions and answers would be, using the full moon as a 'prop'.
The skinheads came back in, safe in their belief that we would end up looking completely stupid (hehe).
So we started the session, asking and answering questions about the skinheads that we already knew, with them giggling in the background 'cos we weren't getting anywhere with the proof they wanted.
So we 'asked the spirits to give us a sign' that they were really there, as we had non-believers in our midst.
The 'spirits' spelled out that they would make the moon larger.
The skinheads went to the window and watched the moon, and after a while one of them started shouting "F*£%$!g H*@l, it's getting bigger!!" Then they all joined in. We started laughing 'cos we thought they were mucking about, but then we saw their faces! They were terrified!
Now, these were guys who thought they were so 'tough'. They thought nothing of terrorising anyone they didn't like (that included little old ladies and schoolkids, as well as us) and thought fighting was the only way to sort anything out - they weren't frightened of anyone or anything, probably because the 'other side' didn't carry knives like they did. I think we were the only ones ever to get one over on them, apart from the police of course.
We never did tell them that we had 'fixed' the whole thing, but we did notice a new-found respect from them for ever more!
And yes, i know it was naughty, but it was too good an opportunity to miss!
BB
I was at the youth club with my sister and some friends. We were in the 'quiet room' where the hippies usually gathered to talk. The 'skinheads' thought we were too weird and usually stayed in the main hall.
This particular night we were discussing spiritual things, and a few of the skinheads wandered in to see what we were up to. On hearing the subject matter, they said that it was all a load of rubbish, no such thing etc etc, y'know the sort of thing.
So we offered to prove it to them, they said they wanted some sort of sign that we couldn't have faked, and so we asked them to come back a bit later so that we could work out the best way to prove it beyond any doubt.
Now, being young and inexperienced we couldn't give any proof at all, so we decided the best thing to do was to 'fix' a ouja board session (yes, i know i've been very much against them in previous threads, but this was a loooong time ago!). We worked out what our questions and answers would be, using the full moon as a 'prop'.
The skinheads came back in, safe in their belief that we would end up looking completely stupid (hehe).
So we started the session, asking and answering questions about the skinheads that we already knew, with them giggling in the background 'cos we weren't getting anywhere with the proof they wanted.
So we 'asked the spirits to give us a sign' that they were really there, as we had non-believers in our midst.
The 'spirits' spelled out that they would make the moon larger.
The skinheads went to the window and watched the moon, and after a while one of them started shouting "F*£%$!g H*@l, it's getting bigger!!" Then they all joined in. We started laughing 'cos we thought they were mucking about, but then we saw their faces! They were terrified!
Now, these were guys who thought they were so 'tough'. They thought nothing of terrorising anyone they didn't like (that included little old ladies and schoolkids, as well as us) and thought fighting was the only way to sort anything out - they weren't frightened of anyone or anything, probably because the 'other side' didn't carry knives like they did. I think we were the only ones ever to get one over on them, apart from the police of course.
We never did tell them that we had 'fixed' the whole thing, but we did notice a new-found respect from them for ever more!
And yes, i know it was naughty, but it was too good an opportunity to miss!
BB