Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Eating--->Cup + Drinking--->Plate

To break social norms, I went to lunch one day and instead of eating out of a plate and drinking out of a cup like a normal person, I did the opposite. I had my pasta in a cup (filled up) along with chocolate milk in a plate. When I walked to my seat, a couple of freshman just looked at me and then talked to each other when I could clearly hear them questioning me. I had sat down next to a couple people and they all had pretty much the same reaction. Karlton looked at me for a second and then said that what I was doing was pretty scary, which I understood, since I was slurping up some milk from the plate. Luke Riemann sat down next to me and then for a couple minutes just watched me eat from the cup and drink from the plate. He then asked me why I would do that, since it was so stupid. A couple more people started seeing what I was doing and Janvi said that what I was doing was absolutely disgusting, which I agreed with, since I had spilled the milk multiple times already. More remarks included even more disgust and a lot of laughter upon my slurping. It was an interesting experience since what I was doing wasn't extremely crazy so breaking other social norms may lead to more extreme reactions.

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