GEN: no pinching, what about pajamas??

[Jody Gerlock <Jody_Gerlock@pds.k12.nj.us>]

I, like the rest of the Northeasterners and New Jerseyans, have never heard of
the pinching on March 17, but let me ask you about another one (PLEASE reply
to me so as not to clog up the listserv!).
I grew up about 40 miles away from here, at the Jersey shore, and I'm trying
to figure out if this was just something we did in my town, or if the
"custom" is known elsewhere (my colleagues here in Princeton don't know of
this one).  Once winter would set in and there would be predictions about big
snowstorms coming, we'd all hope they'd happen late at night so we could have
a "snow day" the next day. The way to assure that we'd get the next day off
from school was to be sure we all wore our pajamas inside out to bed that
night. Anyone else ever hear of this? My mom & dad worked in a school not 10
miles away and they'd never heard of it there, but I don't think it was
something we just made up.
Jody
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P.O. Box 75, The Great Road              email: Jody_Gerlock@pds.k12.nj.us
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