A tradition of calling out of work, avoiding responsibilities, and not being where you should be. The belief is that if you are out of place and high misfortune won’t find you.
Hey, we’re calling out tomorrow, roasting some bones, and heading downtown for Fr-HIGHday the 13th. You in?
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.