Getting a Clue
Our Boy Scout troop attended the annual district Camporee last month. Great fun was had by all, most especially by our Venture (older boy) patrol, the Temple Guards, who took home a sheaf of first and second place awards. Their friends in larger troops did not fare so well.
This is a bit of a reversal; normally, our smaller troop tends to come out on the bottom. I asked the boys if it felt good to pull out an upset win over their rivals. One of them said, “Yes, it felt pretty good to rub it in. It’s gonna feel even better on Monday at school, when I’ll do it again!”
While this isn’t exactly what Baden-Powell had in mind when he put the words “friendly” and “courteous” in the Scout Law, I can’t begrudge them a little bit of bragging rights. They worked hard for it. Besides, I can’t wait to get a little of that for myself at the next Scout roundtable (heh heh).
One interesting observation: at the evening campfire, one of the Scoutmasters was addressing the crowd and misplaced his notebook. He started muttering to himself, “Now, where did I put my handy, dandy…”
And about 100 teenagers yelled out “NOTEBOOK!”
If you were wondering if the younger generation has found their identity, worry no more. This is clearly the Blue’s Clues generation.
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He, he, he. Did you attend the National Jamboree last year where those poor souls were lost and the temperatures where trying to take a few more?
My 14 year-old nephew was there, and called the first round-up to see the President (the canceled one), “the trail of tears,” as boy-scouts were dropping like flies from the heat. I couldn’t help but giggle at his joke, but was glad he made it out of there okay.
I wasn’t at the Jamboree, but many of my friends were. The heat didn’t bother them as much as the news reports would suggest, which I owe to our Oklahoma origins (where hot ‘n humid is just another summer camp to us).
Oh no. I must direct you to steveswebpage.com it pains me to say. Check out some of the correspondence Steve has received from this “the Blue’s Clues generation” of mommies!