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The norm to violate the way we eat a banana was more funny than expected. I casually started to eat my banana at my lunch table as I would to a watermelon, when out of a sudden a friend notice and called it out to my friends. Their reaction was to just laugh at the infrequent way I was eating my banana. I then explain to them the reason as to why I was doing that and some decided to try it out with me and was a fun experience overall. The second norm was a bit challenging since where I live there are few elevators but fortunately I when to a school field trip to Houston where there were elevator mostly everywhere I went. It was kind of awkward for me to violate this norm since I was too embarrassed to go through it. After some failed tries

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