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Book of Wong : BB Mania
The other very “BB” thing I did was to collect all the paraphernalia BBM had to offer. I had BB pens, BB pencils, BB caps, BB T-Shirts (not the free ones, mind you! I paid for these!), BB Buttonholes. Then of course, there were BB socks, BB shoes, BB umbrellas, and all the little BB iron-on crests that were available. Heck… if they had BB underpants, I think I would have bought it (Stop laughing… it was an idea my friends and I actually talked about. Nevermind where we thought the Anchor should be placed).
It was BB mania. Utterly, thoroughly crazy-over-BB mania. The scary thing about BB mania is that it doesn't really end. It's like an incurable disease. One would assume that BB mania would end once you step out of your Blues. Let me tell you it doesn't. I know people who still wear their button-hole badges (Those little anchor pins, if you don't know what I'm talking about) wherever they go. In fact, I confess I once wore it to a dinner and someone actually asked me about it. It felt good explaining with great enthusiasm what the BB was all about… until he said, “Oh, so it's just like the Scouts?” (Fortunately, I couldn't reach over to the pair of chopsticks and jab him with it). There are Officers I know who will actually wear the BB ties (Those navy blue ties with Anchors all over them from the 1970s) to other occasions. I even know Officers who actually take banners from BB events (Oh, let's say a BB concert) and hang them up in their homes as decoration! There are even those Officers who wear their Uniform on their wedding day! And now that we're starting to celebrate Founder's Day Babies (as I noticed through the MyBBKul website last October), I won't be surprised to see Officers trying to get their children born on October 4th (“C'mon honey, push! Push harder! Faster, faster… it's going to be October 5th already! Hurry up… or I'll punish you with 20 push-ups!”). Still, there's something to be said about BB mania. BB mania is a symptom of something deeper than all the crazy things we did for, with and in the Boys Brigade. Of course, there are always those in the Brigade who really are just crazy fanatics. But those aren't the ones I'm talking about.
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