It was a really good day: I got through the test I’d been staying up all night for okay, the girl who I’d shared my notes with gave me a voucher for Tim Horton’s in thanks, and I was just walking out of the building when I saw them: a bunch of people gathered around on the front steps, holding up “FREE HUGS” signs.
Why? No reason. Just because it’s the last week of school and some people need a hug.
So I joined them, and gave out about twenty, twenty-five hugs all told, and didn’t feel the cold all the way home from school.
If I were on a college campus, and I saw a group of people with “FREE HUGS” signs, my first thought would be “Who is this ‘Hugs’, and why has the oppressive establishment wrongly convicted him?”
Achren, I’ve heard about people giving out free hugs before–and today, people were running up to tell us about Oprah / YouTube / other campuses–but this, as far as I know, was just some people getting together with signs.
Of course, you could take over the world with free hugs… ponders
I ran across some girls giving out free hugs at Broadway Skytrain station in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. A fair number of people took them up on it, including me. Then I gave my new guy a free hug until the train arrived.
At GT during finals week some group organizes the “swishy pants brigade” these people wear their swishy pants, the pants which make the swish with every step - they’re made out of nylon I think. So with a dozen or so people during finals week they hit the library at night and walk all over it. This would, of course, cause people to become absolutely irate - however the catch is that they are walking all over the library to distribute candy and goodies to all the stressing students.
Two guys were walking down the street yesterday holding a FREE HUGS sign. As they approached me, one asked if I’d like a hug. I declined, and wondered why the offer couldn’t have been extended by a couple of the hot swimsuit-clad females I had passed just a few minutes before…
