Rex Round-Up
Feb. 5th, 2008 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinksoniaI accompanied the marching band during Rex today, so once again I am tired and sore. Thankfully, this parade was only five miles, but there were the anticipated stops. We only had two: one that lasted an hour and another that lasted 45 minutes.
The LSU fans were really good. Everyone was dreading five hours of being called "Tiger Bait" but it didn't happen. In fact, the most annoying aspect of the parade were the two old alumni volunteers. They came every year to carry the banner in at least one parade. They are in no particular order:
The LSU fans were really good. Everyone was dreading five hours of being called "Tiger Bait" but it didn't happen. In fact, the most annoying aspect of the parade were the two old alumni volunteers. They came every year to carry the banner in at least one parade. They are in no particular order:
- extremely slow, at the end we were something like two blocks behind the float in front of us. The guard was seriously considering passing the banner on the left
- incapable of standing in the middle of the road. The banner was always on one side or the other, resulting in it being off kilter from the rest of the band.
- Incapable of holding the banner evenly. The wife of the pair insists on holding it up by her shoulders, while the husband carries it by his waist. These two locations do not result in a line parallel to the ground. Also, the wife likes to walk two steps ahead of her husband, so only the people on the left side of the street could read it.
