Mum's The Word

When I was in high school and homecoming was afoot, you went to the local florist and picked up a mum for your date. It was roughly the size of a softball, and in pipe cleaners in your high school colors were letters were attached to the top of the flower. There were ribbons roughly six inches long in school colors with the words "homecoming" and "1984" on them. They cost about 10 bucks or so, and every girl had pretty much the same flower in the homecoming photos.

Well, in Texas, this is another one of those things where "everything's bigger." The homecoming mums have looked like this for years:



And, I didn't even take a photo of the garters that the girls give to the guys. They're roughly the same size!