You'll Do What on my Parade?

Students gathered one warm, spring evening, to delight in company and enjoy a Lenten meal. Dinner happily passed with pleasantries exchange amongst all present. Following dessert, Chaplain Bonita Strictenstern presided over a brief service. After giving a captivating and thorough background on the season of Lent, Strictenstern went on to explain why she herself decided not to partake in the tradition of giving up a vice for Lent, remarking she thought the practice put too much emphasis on the individual and took the focus off God. Strictenstern concluded with an apology, making it known she didn’t want to “poop on anyone’s parade.”

An awkward silence ensued. One brave student, Roberto the White, broke the silence, declaring “um, Bonita, I’m pretty sure that’s not a saying.” Another student, Stephen S. Scottzpatrick, remarked “I can’t even imagine that.”