Initiation

I won't lie, I was a little disappointed on Monday, when I heard the Crocodile Scarification story three times... considering that was the one I was going to tell.  But now that I have changed my story, I am so excited to tell it.  Although I did like my original story quite alot, the one I have now hits a little closer to home.  On Wednesday after class, I went to my house to meet my dad, who was driving through Bozeman on his was to Missoula to teach classes there for the next few days.  He always likes to ask how everything is going, how my day went and so forth.  I told him about how I had to find a new initiation story and he had an idea immediately.  As you have probably figured out from my creation story, and my childhood memory, my dad was in the Navy when I was younger.  And just like athletes are superstitious, sailors are even worse.  In the Navy, there are ceremonies for when certain things happen, such as going up in rank, crossing the equator, etc. etc.  He has told me these stories so many times and I still love to listen to them, but I always forget about them.  So today I will be telling a story that my dad has told me, and which I did a little research to see where it come from.