In this brief anecdote, Tom Krieglstein recounts his first experience with an orientation icebreaker. Two participants, eager to appear cool, repeatedly exchanged middle‑finger gestures. Tom initially finds the gesture funny and laughs, but after three rounds the repeated use becomes tiresome, leading him to reflect that the novelty wears off quickly.
I remember the very first time I ever did that activity. It was, it was an orientation. There were two guys in the back that were just too cool for school. And they're like, wait, Tom, we can throw any finger we want at each other. And so they, of course they threw out their middle finger. And I saw it and I laughed. I was like, haha, that's funny. But then for the next three rounds, that's all they did was throw out the same. I'm like, it gets stupid at some point, doesn't it?
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