Though it confuses some non-native speakers, in the English language, tee-peeing has nothing to do with Native Americans or urination. In many parts of the East Coast, it’s simply part of a weapons arsenal for Cabbage Night.
[boom boom boom boom]
There is an odd little tradition in the northern East Coast. The day before Halloween – or, more accurately, the night – is considered to be a general-free-for-all where one is “allowed” to toilet paper and egg houses… or each other. It’s called “Mischief Night” in parts of the region, but in my town, we always referred to it as “Cabbage Night”.
I’m assuming that the nomenclature derived from flinging rotten cabbage and not from gastrointestinal abuses on each other. That would be “Pull-My-Finger Night.”
Now, my parents weren’t from New England and they had no clue about Cabbage Night. And trying to instill a feeling of law-abidingness in us, they forbid my brother and me to join our friends who went out on Cabbage Night.
Which pretty much guaranteed that our house was going to be targeted. Ever Continue Reading
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