Toilet papering, rolling...I can't be the only one...Vent

[tekmom]

I just don't get it. Why do some people think that having this done to your house is a fun time honored tradition? Since when? When I was in high school way back in the 80's, people did this to houses of people they didn't like. It was a form of vandalism and you were angry and mortified if your yard fell victim.

Last night, I hear laughing outside in the street and there were about five girls rolling the yard of my neighbors, across the street. Like a loon, I yell, "Hey, stop that!" they looked at me like I had three heads and continued. I call my neighbor and tell her there are people rolling her yard and she says, " I know, it's an honor and tradition." Her daughters teamates or something.

Well, this morning it has blown over onto other yards and gotten soggy. So I picked up what was in my yard and our elderly neighbor's yard, but it stills all over the original yard and sidewalk. I am not an uncool person!!!but...I don't get it, help me understand. Thank you.

 

[momof2inPA]

When I was in school back in the 80's, people did this to their friends "for fun." It does make a mess, though, especially if it rains.

 

[CheshireVal]

I didn't know kids did this anymore!!

 

[NMAmy]

I graduated in 1981 and it was done to the homes of friends and was all in good fun. Most times the paperers would go to the paperee's home the next day and help with clean up.

It is still a time honored tradition around here.

 

[DelaneyRose]

Wow, even if she thought it was funny you'd think your neighbor would care about the rest of the neighborhood. No one wants to look at that.

We used to do it too back in the 80's, but I just don't see it happen much around here the way I did when I was in high school.

 

[Tazicket]

Ugh! I don't think it's funny, either. In fact, I'd be darn ticked if somebody did that to my yard.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

We've never been TP'ed.

People are afraid of us I guess.

It used to be you TP'ed someone house you didn't like. I think that's changed over the years.

 

[nsyncraider17]

When I was in high school, one of our traditions in marching band was that the night before the Senior Night football game, all the underclassmen would toilet paper the seniors' houses. I participated in it for two years and my house was TP'd senior year, and it really was almost like an honor or a rite of passage or something. Usually a few seniors would tell the Junior Representative that they (or their parents) didn't want their house hit, and there would be a meeting telling everyone not to do those houses. There was always an effort to make sure everyone else's house got toilet papered, though, because if someone woke up the next morning and didn't see toilet paper in their yard, they knew they had been forgotten. Often if the senior saw people coming, they'd even go outside and help.

This obviously wasn't endorsed by our band director or anything, but it still happens every year anyway. I really don't see the harm in it... you knew ahead of time that it was going to happen, and you could tell people that you didn't want your house done if you wanted, and they usually respected the request. It was also just a fun night, with everyone staying out late together. I know a few of the sports teams at my school did it too, so when I see a house toilet papered, it never really crosses my mind that it would be malicious, I just assume a graduating senior lives there.

 

[JR6ooo4]

Once the cheerleaders started doing it, it became a fun event. They ruin everything.

Oh and it is called TPing. Not "rolled". If it is done correctly their should not be any left on the rolls. If anything it would be called "unrolling"

Mikeeee

 

[lucyanna girl]

Hasn't happened to us yet but one of DDs friends has had her house TPed four times this year. Even worse, they add egging to the TP. Her mother and father are NOT happy.

Penny

 

[wilderness01]

When I was in high school, one of our traditions in marching band was that the night before the Senior Night football game, all the underclassmen would toilet paper the seniors' houses. I participated in it for two years and my house was TP'd senior year, and it really was almost like an honor or a rite of passage or something. Usually a few seniors would tell the Junior Representative that they (or their parents) didn't want their house hit, and there would be a meeting telling everyone not to do those houses. There was always an effort to make sure everyone else's house got toilet papered, though, because if someone woke up the next morning and didn't see toilet paper in their yard, they knew they had been forgotten. Often if the senior saw people coming, they'd even go outside and help.

This obviously wasn't endorsed by our band director or anything, but it still happens every year anyway. I really don't see the harm in it... you knew ahead of time that it was going to happen, and you could tell people that you didn't want your house done if you wanted, and they usually respected the request. It was also just a fun night, with everyone staying out late together. I know a few of the sports teams at my school did it too, so when I see a house toilet papered, it never really crosses my mind that it would be malicious, I just assume a graduating senior lives there.

I as a parent would not be happy. Do the parents get a vote in this? Or just the kids. I would not be happy to be cleaning up someone else's mess, especially if it rained.

 

[nsyncraider17]

Well I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I know my parents made me clean it up! These are 17-18 year olds - definitely capable of cleaning up without their parents' help. I think most parents did the same... usually you would see TP'd houses through the next morning, but after school that day, everyone would be in their yards taking it down. My parents also were always amused that that morning, you could drive around town and instantly pick out where all the marching band seniors lived!

 

[BabyTigger99]

It happens around here all the time, but ONLY during homecoming. The school gets TPd, and people's houses get TPd. One year my sister's friends did our house, while we were all awake, and my dad invited them in for a soda! My senior year, we not only got TPd, but we got for sale signs in the yard. Harmless prank!

 

[disykat]

It meant you were LIKED when I was growing up in the 70's.

 

[KariC]

Once the cheerleaders started doing it, it became a fun event. They ruin everything.

Oh and it is called TPing. Not "rolled". If it is done correctly their should not be any left on the rolls. If anything it would be called "unrolling"

Mikeeee

thank you! I have been trying to explain that to my DH for 14 years...


oh, fwiw....we always tp'd friends. why waste time/tp on someone you didn't like?

 

[chewbacca]

We were just tp'd in May. We have no idea who it was...our son is only 3 yrs old so no friends of his. There were teenagers that lived here before we bought the house but that was 4 years ago!

It was no fun cleaning it up. My DH just came home from working 3rd shift and I was 8 months pregnant. We had rolls coming out of the trees for a few days. Even our mailbox was mummified!

 

[eh24fan]

We actually did this to each other's cars. LOL Our little group of friends went through this thing for about a year where we all "got" each other. One friend had the key pad thing on her car and we all had the number to unlock it. hehe We did the entire INSIDE of her car one night while she was at work. LMAO Then we parked across the parking lot to watch her get in her car. She was less than pleased, but the 4 of us that did it found it endlessly funny.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

We did it to people we liked when I was a kid, too, and even though it was a pain to clean up, there was some pride in saying your house got tp'd. This was 30 years ago.

My parents made me clean most of it up, but they helped.

 

[december]

It is called TPing, rolling, or wrapping, and it is illegal. You are trespassing on someone's property. OP, I don't understand it either. I've never done it-don't see anything fun about vandalism. I had a classmate shot, not seriously hurt but could have been, our senior year. Last week, some of my students did the outgoing superintendent's yard (definitely not because they liked her ), and her dh chased them. They wrecked and one was hurt, but is back at school . They are facing youth court charges now. There was a student killed in a neighboring town last year after being chased. He fell off the back of the truck at high speeds.

My kids may do it, but they will be punished for it. And I will call the police on anyone I catch doing it to me!

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

When I was an undergrad, our sorority house was TPed the night before our national president was supposed to come in. It was freezing, and the senior officers pulled everyone out of bed to get what we could out of the trees. It looked HORRIBLE. I'm still mad about that, and it's been 10 years...