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Grex Rialto Item 42: You Know Your Kids Are In The SCA When....
Entered by arianna on Mon Jun 18 18:08:37 UTC 2001:

Subject: [Oldenfeld] You know your kids are in the SCA when...


    a.. they run away from being tagged, calling "Light!"

    b.. you have to warn your two-year old not to hit anyone with his
sword that ISN'T WEARING ARMOR. 

    c.. while trick-or-treating, someone asks your son what he is, and he
replies: "I'm Guy de Lacy, a pre-tabard 11th century Norman who settled
near Cornwall!".... 

    d.. they don't know their right hand from their left hand, but they do
know their sword arm from their sheild arm. 

    e.. your bedtime conversation with your 9-year-old centers around
forms of address for royalty when they are a duke, knight, and prince at
the same time. 

    f.. your five year old daughter, who is watching a video of the Gene
Kelly Musical "Brigadoon" (Scottish Wedding scene), looks up and says in a
clear scornful voice, "Bad Pennsic Garb!!!!" 

    g.. you overhear your three-year old meeting new little friends at the
playground and he asks, "What's your name?" then "What's your SCA name?" 

    h.. your child's "what I did last summer" paper describes how much fun
it was to watch their best friend kill a complete stranger. 

    i.. they're an early gradeschooler, but decorate their work folders
with celtic knotwork. 

    j.. their teacher complains that their handwriting is so bad that it's
illegible, and when you examine it you find it's norse runes. (YKYITSCA
TOO if this makes you proud) 

    k.. your six-year-old chooses to write her first book report on "The
Pennsic Wars and Living Medieval". 

    l.. your kid can't make the highschool baseball team because he/she
swings the bat like a bastard sword. 

    m.. your 4th grader writes an essay in school about a time when she
"felt special" and writes about the time Daddy carried her favor in a
tourney and how great it was when he won his first 2 bouts and how
disappointed she was when he got killed in the semi-finals and then the
teacher calls you and wants to know if your husband has died. 

    n.. [your child`s] pre-school teacher asks the children to name one
item they would take camping, and she pipes up with "A Sword!". (The
little girl in question has never been camping EXCEPT at SCA wars.) The
Christian pre-school teacher was best described as "not amused". 

    o.. your 11-year-old is going over spelling words and shrieks in
delight when she sees "parry"... and you suggest her sentence should be "A
rubber chicken is an effective parry weapon". 

    p.. your kids make fun of the "square bread" at the grocery store. 

    q.. your son is taking Woodshop so he can make toys, and Home Ec so he
can run a feast kitchen... and his friends see what he's making in metal
shop and stop hassling him about taking Home Ec. (THIS IS MY FAVORITE) 

    r.. their 5th grade teacher asks them "what is a Duke" and they
quickly answer: "Someone who's been king twice!" 

    s.. your husband has more pairs of tights than you do. 

    t.. your child recognizes that tune as "Greensleeves".

    u.. you ask your 8-year-old daughter what she wants for her birthday,
and she replies "Armor, so I can be Queen like Mommy someday!" 

    v.. your child is asked "What does your daddy do?" and answers "He's
the king of Texas and Oklahoma!". Subsequent attempts to convince the
principal and teacher that he/she is not lying are also fun. 

    w.. your child looks around, worried, and whispers "Where's the
king?", and you remind her, "Honey, this is church, not an event". 

    x.. your child asks you to cut his sandwich "per saltire".

    y.. your young son gets your attention by kissing your hand.


(and one I added:)

    z.. your child is asked where she lives.  With an incredulous look
of disbelief that someone doesn't know the name of their own shire and a
prideful tremor in her voice, she says, "Oldenfeld, of course."

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by kami on Wed Jun 20 04:09:06 2001:

Oh!  Now I remember why I like the SCA...
Thanks!

#2 of 3 by krokus on Thu Jun 21 22:58:17 2001:

This shal be forwarded to the mailing list for my house.  :)

#3 of 3 by michaela on Fri Jul 20 00:23:11 2001:

Beautiful!  Forwarding to Cynnabar...

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