Middle school hijinks (summer 1980)

In Lafayette and Louiseville, Colorado, each town had (and probably still has) a fair with rides, cotton candy (candy floss for you Brits), stuffed animals to be won, and such at the end of every summer. The tradition was for students from the joint high school, Centaurus, to take this opportunity to initiate freshly "graduated" 8th graders who would be going on to high school the next year. I didn't even end up going to Centaurus, as I moved back to Seattle, but that didn't stop me from getting initiated. It's not the most pleasant of experience to spend the evening walking around with a combination of honey, egg and tabasco sauce in your hair, I can tell you, but it does make for very nice, soft flowing locks when you wash the muck out!