The Rule of Five: 5 weird things people do to cause a snow day
While in the North, ice and snow are causing dangerous situations, Lambert kids are ready for another ice or snow event. Snowpocalypse 2k16, anyone?
Last year, on the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2015, the ice-pocalypse was just beginning to take over Forsyth County. Students jumped for joy every morning upon seeing Forsyth County Schools on the news reel of schools that were out for the day, and responded to snarky tweets from @FCSchoolsGA, the Forsyth schools twitter account dishing out sick burns every day. Meanwhile, the rest of the country looked on in amusement, laughing at the silly Georgia kids who got out of school because of an inch of snow on the ground. However, kids all over the country delight at the thought of having a snow day, and many have developed some strange customs in the hopes of causing one. With the weather turning brutally cold this week, here are five weird things you can try doing to conjure up a snow day.
- Sleep with your pajamas on inside out.
In an effort to confuse the weather? Imitate ancient traditions? Whatever the reason, many students swear by the inside-out-pajamas method.
Flannel PJ’s, sillk PJ’s, a ratty old t-shirt and shorts, any PJ’s will work as long as you turn ’em inside-out.
- Sleep with a spoon under your pillow.
In reality, I’m not sure this method does much except make you wake up with a crick in your neck, but hey, it’s worth a shot.
Exhibit A: This spoon will end up tangled in your bed sheets and you’ll find it after a few weeks, ending an unprecedented stretch of snow days, all due to you putting a spoon under your pillow.
- Flush an ice cube down the toilet.
This method has some scientific merit to it, at least according to third-grader Taylor Zelman, who said: “It goes down to the ocean and it freezes up the ocean, so that’s why I think it’ll snow.” Seems legit.
- Do a snow dance.
Although there are many great examples of what a “snow dance” might look like on YouTube, the best of these dances are in a freestyle format. Freestyle is what appeases the snow gods the most.
- Put a white crayon in the freezer.
Again, this method has some reasoning to it. Snow is white, the freezer is cold, put a white crayon in the freezer, bada-boom bada-bang, you get some snow.
“Crayon” page on Wikipedia
Living in Forsyth county, rituals such as these are usually not even needed when we tend to have school off at even the slightest suggestion of inclement weather. While all of these methods seem straight up weird and are most likely unnecessary, many people claim that they are 100% effective in causing that fluffy white stuff to fall from the sky.
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