Title: First-Aid Kit

Informant info: Informant Name: Michael Colon, Location: Hanover, NH, Date: 5/19/16, Dartmouth Student, male, Class of 2018, went on Hiking 1 trip and led Hiking 3 trip

Type of lore: Customary (prank)

Language: English

Country of Origin: U.S.

Social / Cultural Context:  Performed and experienced during the actual trip phase of first-year trips, generally in the wilderness with your fellow trippees and trip-leaders.

Transcript: Another classic prank is the fake first-aid kit. So what we did was have a package labeled “first-aid” that actually consisted of a package of Oreos. So one evening while we were just sort of chilling around the campsite my co-leader pretended to twist her ankle and made a big show of how much pain she was in and called out for someone to get an ace bandage and splint from the first-aid kit. This kid ran to get it and when he opened it there were just Oreos and he kind of just froze, really confused and said, “what the hell is this?!” and then my co-leader got up and we all had a pretty good laugh.

So, again, how did you come up with this prank?

Same as the Ground fruit, it’s something that was done to my trip and tends to be done to most trips. It’s just sort of an established tradition within the trips/Dartmouth community.

Informant’s comments:  I would say essentially the same thing as for the Canadian Groundfruit prank

Collector’s comments:  See overall comments on trips pranks.

Tags/Keywords:  Prank, First-Aid Kit, trips, customary