bobby pins VS. butterfly pins

VS.


recently I remembered an experience I had in high school and it's pretty funny. So I thought I should write it down before I forget.

I used to play basketball in high school. I was in the international school so we usually played against other international schools. But during my senior year, my coach decided to join Chinese schools basketball tournament. They play basketball so differently (with elbows and nails) that I kept getting fouled out because they said my defense was too 'rough'.

Anyway, in one of the games against one Chinese school, before the game a referee came up to me and said, "you.. no... this [pointing at the bobby pin]" And I said, "oh... ok... but I only have one." But he said, "no" so I took it off, wondering how one bobby pin can hurt anyone. Then during the game, I was guarding this girl and I looked at her hair and oh my goodness! - She had [at least] 30 butterfly pins on her head and the wings on that butterflies were sharp!

The whole time, I was just thinking... why butterfly pins are okay and not bobby pins. But our team had a great laugh about that, so it was ok. We decided to wear butterfly pins instead of bobby pins [for our next game].