Sunday, October 5, 2008

Violating a Social Norm

For my social norm violation, I brushed my teeth at a drinking fountain. Spit in it and everything. Before I did it, I felt kind of excited; I had an excuse to act like the weirdo I am. Afterwords, however, I kind of felt like a wanker. I got sort of worried about what people thought because chances are they'll never know that I was doing an experiment. I did get some funny reactions though. Of course I got many strange looks and double-takes, but some people talked to me. Courtney, who knew I was doing my experiment on Friday, didn't even recognize that it was my experiment. She said "You're weird" and walked away. My friend Stephanie had an interesting reaction. She said "That's so unique. I like that." Later she said she had no idea what I was doing and didn't know what to say. A stupid freshman boy I didn't know asked me "Are you seriously brushing your teeth?" and I nodded. He then said "Woooooooooooow" and walked away. My favorite reaction came from a girl who was looking over her shoulder as she walked and then ran into a guy and almost fell over. Hee hee.

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