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Radioactive Boy Scout

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Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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35
My parents tried to get me to join the boy scouts when I was about 10. I went to one meeting. When they started talking about the pecking order:

God
Country
Family
Self

I turned to my mom and said, "Fvck this."

She was pissed but she understood.



Now I'm knida bummed. Looks like there were some really cool people in the scouts. I coulda hung out with radiation boy!
 

stinkyboy

Plastic Santa
Jan 6, 2005
15,187
1
¡Phoenix!
I hit the den mother in the face with a soccer ball at my first Cub Scout meeting.



I think that was my very first banning. :monkeydance:
 

ridiculous

Turbo Monkey
Jan 18, 2005
2,907
1
MD / NoVA
I think my last troop was about the furthest you could be from the "Ideal Boy Scout Troop" and therefore was infinitely more fun.
 

Broken_Spoke

Mr. Big Hot Pastrami
Feb 26, 2003
2,410
0
Bozeman, MT
My parents tried to get me to join the boy scouts when I was about 10. I went to one meeting. When they started talking about the pecking order:

God
Country
Family
Self

I turned to my mom and said, "Fvck this."

She was pissed but she understood.



Now I'm knida bummed. Looks like there were some really cool people in the scouts. I coulda hung out with radiation boy!
I had a friend growing up that became highly active in the scouts. When He got up to Eagle scout he told me that he wished he had stopped scouting a long time ago because it had taken away time that he could have been with his real friends instead of his scout troop.
 

peter6061

Turbo Monkey
Nov 19, 2001
1,575
0
Kenmore, WA
I really liked my first Boy Scout troop in L.A. From age 11-12 I went camping a bunch, hiked the Grand Canyon, went sailing, played a bunch of smear the 'guy with the ball', etc,... We moved to AZ when I was 12 and the new troop my parents tried to get me to join thought a great time consisted of a meeting followed by a game of red rover. I never went back.

I've sometimes regretted not getting my eagle scout, but not enough to have wanted to stay in Scouts.

And it didn't take being an eagle scout to develop a love of playing with fire,... just ask my neighbor about her garage, and the guy down the block about his gas station.... (you can't prove a thing).