I'm sick of the Obama/Jesse/Bernie thing, sick of dissecting Will and Jada's union and of some of the other stuff we've gone back and forth about the past few days. And instead of making up another 20 questions, I decided that I'd rather know whether you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout and if so, what was your most vivid scouting memory?
I started in Brownies and stayed in scouting until I was a Cadet, which I believe was 5th grade. My most vivid memory was the year I sold so many cookies that I got to go to camp for a week, for free. That was a big deal to me because my mom didn't let me do many sleepovers and for me to go for a whole week? Yeah...
I remember the first day my cabinmates asked me if I was gonna go with them for the Polar Swim...SHEEE and IT!! Go jump in the lake at 6 am? I'on thank so!
I had a great time though overall and that's when I discovered how much I like canoeing. I ain't gonna lie though, it'll be a cold, cold day in shuckyduck fo I get in that dirty lake again!
I do believe that I learned quite a few life lessons while earning badges. A thousand years later, when my boys were old enough, I put them in Cub Scouts and was even a Den Leader and a Popcorn Colonel (how does that end up sounding like Kernel?) It was a disappointment of sorts because there was one male leader and the rest were women...*shrug* but what can ya do?
Tell me 'bout your experience(s) in scouting. If you weren't a scout, but wanted to be, why weren't you?
My grandmother wasn't going to let me do ANYTHING that fun that she couldn't fuck up by being there.... Therefore... I was a 4-H'er, and her sister presided over THOSE meetings. There was so much that I wanted to do that she wouldn't let me *pout*
ReplyDeleteHence the reason you're a rebel now! *thank you Grandmother*
ReplyDeleteWas never a Girl Scout. My mother wasn't one so it wasn't something she felt was necessary. The United Methodist Church does have a rather large and comprehensive camping program in Maryland and West Virginia, and my grandmother was the Camp Nurse at the MD camp for many many years. Therefore I spent nearly every summer as the Nurse's grandbaby running around the camp, as a camper, a CIT (Counselor in Training), a Counselor, or a summer staffer (washing dishes in the kitchen). I practically grew up at that camp. Who needed scouting? I had unrestricted access to God's Back Yard! *smile*
ReplyDeleteI wasn't a girl scout....i was enrolled in piano lessons, tap and ballet. I hate them ALL.
ReplyDeleteNever was a girl scout, but I helped my sister sell 'bout a hundred fifty million cookies when she was involved!
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree, who gives hell about Will & Jada's supposed open marriage. I think personally ppl are taking the term out of context in that they just tell one another EVERYTHING. But not to get off the subject or anything....
I was a cub scout and boy scout. Not a lot of memories of things done. Mostly of the friends I made then.
ReplyDeleteI HATED my piano teacher. She stank to high hell and every time she left the room, I'd hide under the piano and try to play her accordian instead.
ReplyDeleteI used to beat boy scouts up on the way home from school sometimes crossing guards too. Thos are my only expierences
ReplyDeleteThe African Methodist Episcopal Church has Camp Baber in Cassopolis, MI. I went there several summers. *whispering* That's where I got my first hickeys. Looked like that boy knocked me in my neck with a baseball bat!
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't that surprise me?
ReplyDeletecan we all say...EWWE!
ReplyDeleteOh I learned a WHOLE LOT about "nature" during those summers! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Walk-In Fridge in the industrial kitchen was a GREAT place to make-out (except that one time we got locked in...)
I was a boy scout, was actually assistant troop leader. don't really remember much though aside from learning how to tie people up(well, how to tie various knots that I then used to tie people up lol) and learning the sign language alphabet. I've lost a few letters over the years though lol
ReplyDeleteNever even crossed my mind to become one.
ReplyDeleteI was just involved with anything that had to do with singing, acting and all the other arts. Took Piano lessons for about 3 years (Hated my SECOND teachers non english speaking ass because she was a mean heffa. Wished I hadn't stopped because I regret it), Sang in Church from the time I was lil, and went to summer camps that had big shows at the end of em'. Even took Karate for a year. That shit ended quick, too.
I was a Brownie for a short while. Muda took ill & I had to go home to my mama. The End.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should say that! I explained to Mysteeque last night how knot tying that I learned in scouting helping in my adulthood *wink*
ReplyDeleteThat's where I learned how to sign the alphabet too!
The day we stopped doing 4H I started picking up tools and messing around with my uncle and his buddies when they were working on their cars and bikes.... *grin*
ReplyDeleteI was in the scouts. That was it...LOL!
ReplyDeleteNope my mother refused to let me join.
ReplyDeletenope and I wanted to because my friends were.
ReplyDeleteI was a scout in elementary school. it was fun. the best thing I remember was going to this big flea market-type thing. it was a lot of fun too. Jess was a Brownie for a while, and Paris is in Scouts now. I was so proud to see her come home with about 6-7 badges she earned this year. I'm looking forward to her next scouting year.
ReplyDeletehmm...we dont have "scouts" in germany..but sumfin similar...i joined when i was abt 10 and stayed till i was 14 ( den i was mo interested in music n boys..lol..OMG 14!! dang...lol)..anyhoo...
ReplyDeletewe did several thangs..car wash, help ole people, sum hea sum dere..wat i loved most was the summer camp...*memories* ahhh yes..dat was nice...
I was in Campfire..I went all the way or "flew up" to junior high then I realized I was the only black gal in it at junior high age..so I bailed...LOL
ReplyDeleteI was a bluebird and all of those good things.. I remember camping, wading, fishing, putting up a camp. The one thing I remembered about camping was falling in the water and my hair was messed up..My mom was soooooo mad..LOL. I remember seeing the camp mothers walk around in their bras at camp..That was too much to see. I mean it's one thing to see your mom in her bra but other women out in the woods...well that was CRAZY for a nine years old..LOL Oh, I remember how to crochet, making God's eyes...I remember all the crafts. My fondest memory was the annual doll parade inwhich we decorated our red wagons and made dresses for our dolls and walked them in our parade....Oh, can't forget the Christmas parties, singing and performing in the mall.. Going to the senior citizens homes and having old folks curse you out...Yeah those were the days.
i was a girlscout til 5th grade while my sister n niece were brownies at the time i had a blast n was our top seller i won a bike :)
ReplyDeleteI remember being a girl scout for a hot minute. Got the uniforms, went to a few meetings, and I don't have a clue as to what happened after that.
ReplyDeleteGirl... I grew up in the HOOD! I ain't know nuffin' 'bout Girl Scouts except good ass cookies... LOL!
ReplyDeleteI was a brownie... I don't remember why I stopped going ..
ReplyDeleteI was a girl scout from 2nd grade (brownie for 1 year) - 4th grade. My most vivid memory is....well, actually I have a few. The first was in 4th grade. Back then when we sold cookies, we had to go door to door and I almost got attacked by a pit bull. Then the summer between 4th and 5th, I was at the girl scout camp and being a tomboy, I wasn't afraid of the animals in the woods, etc. we had a scavenger hunt and I remember one of the things we had to do was find a garter snake and bring it back. We found one, but no one wanted to pick it up, so I did and brought it back and remember all the other girls screaming LOL. I stopped going b/c I thought the scouts were for little girls, so stopped that summer
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ReplyDeleteI was a boy scout!