You could always do a paper on not follwing orders from authority figures, and start it with, something like "i know you wouldn't approve of me just not doing a paper, so consider this a continuation of my former refusal of writing a paper, for the sake of my grades" and hand it to your teacher after you've told her/him you're not handing in a paper, so you have the paper as backup in case she/he doens't approve.zana bonanza said:Dang, you guys are fast. xD
I love the one about not doing the paper, but it is worth a quarter of my grade, so I'll have to think about it. I actually can read upside down, but not backwards...talking loudly in a library would probably work better. As for getting beat of up by a girl, that doesn't sound pleasant and I am a girl myself, so no go there...
Thanks for all the ideas so far! I'm too lazy to reply to them all, but I am taking them into consideration. You also got my own creative juices going again.
Or you could start jogging up the downward bound elevator, using it as a tredmill XDAby_Z said:Hmmm... Go to the mall and find a nice, circular area. Just start jogging around it. Someone's bound to join up with you eventually and then more people may come.
It's a chick.Umberphoenix said:Perfect.Luke5515 said:Don't do anything and tell your teacher that the norm you are breaking is doing work. Everyone does their work always, but why?
If your teacher has a good sense of humor, you get an A for not doing anything. If not E. Worth a shot right?
If you don't want to risk it, however, where a skirt, and if that's too embarrassing wear it over your pants.
If you still don't want to do that, then order your sodas at restaurants with extra ice. That should be funny.
It's actually easier than you think. All you have to do is look carefully at how society functions, and do something that breaks that function. You could wear a skirt for a bit. You could wear your trousers back-to-front. It only has to be minor and it's a lot easier than it sounds. Sure it'll be somewhat embarrassing, being a social deviant very rarely causes people to raise their respect, but it's a deviance.zana bonanza said:For an assignment, which has limits and is only for a little bit, so it's actually not that big of a deal. However, I am having the hardest time coming up a social norm to break.
This one, bonus points, because it WAS a societal norm at one point to do this.daemon37 said:Say "hello" to every single person you see.
Find a relatively main street on the weekend, and can-can down the sidewalk.zana bonanza said:For an assignment, which has limits and is only for a little bit, so it's actually not that big of a deal. However, I am having the hardest time coming up a social norm to break.
If you haven't guessed yet, the class is Sociology and the assignment includes a paper about my experience. We have to break "a clearly defined societal-level norm" in the presence of others, without the help of anyone else or letting anyone know why we're doing it initially. It cannot be illegal, "stupid", cause embarrassment to or threaten others, involve a moving vehicle of any kind, involve anything sexual, or be done under the influence of alcohol/drugs. So, yeah.
The example she gave us: getting into an elevator and facing the rear, while others are (most likely) facing the doors. Obviously, I can't use the example. I thought about walking backwards everywhere, but that's not very practical and I'd rather not fall on my ass. For some reason, my brain is now drawing a complete blank.
So I turn to you, good people of the Escapist. Care to throw any ideas my way? (I don't suppose asking the internet for help with your homework is breaking a social norm, is it?)
You kids and your stair-etiquette. When I was in school, the wrong side of the stairs was a punishable offense!Walk on the wrong side of the stairs. Local stair-etiquette dictates that you always have to walk on the right side. So you use the left side, or right if you guys do it the other way around.