Story Number 1. The Car Ride Up.
It was on Saturday the twentieth of July that nine boy scouts went up to Camp Old Spoon. Their names go as follows: Billy (the senior patrol leader), Big T, Dragonfly (patrol leader of the Wolverines), Nancy (on the contrary to what you may be thinking right now, Nancy is a boy), Beef, Chap, First Class (the patrol leader of the Stags), The Flirt, and Boondogle.
These boys were excited to go. They had just eaten sugar coated sugar cereal and a sugar filled sweet roll, the perfect things to give young boys before a who knows how many hours car ride.
Three leaders were to take the boys up to camp. BJ, BB, and BR.
The first thing that needed to be done was to have count off. Billy was 1, Dragonfly was 2, Nancy was 3, Boondogle was 4, Chap was 5, Beef was 6, The Flirt was 7, First Class was 8, and Big T was 9.
After a long confusing count off, they were ready to go. Billy, Dragonfly, Boondogle, Nancy, and Big T were with BJ. And everyone else was with BB.
The car ride, when you have more than two twelve and thirteen year old boys, can seem much longer then it really is. And this car ride was quite a while even without the boys. Dragonfly had managed to smuggle his portable gameing device into the car without BJ's knowing. So while BJ was driving, all the boys were busy watching Dragonfly fight off bad guys.
"Yeah! High Score! Stand down ya silly little goblin!" Dragonfly exclaimed.
BJ looked at the boys through the mirror with a puzzled look on his face. "Um.... we are just having a thumb wrestling competetion. And um..... I have won the most times out of everyone." said Dragonfly nervously. BJ stared a little longer then shrugged and said, "Well good luck with that boys," then he went back to driving.
After a while the boys got tired of playing the video games (surprising, right?) and went to looking out the window.
Three out of the five boys in that car were second years when it came to scout camp. They decided to tell stories to the first years of their adventures of Camp Troll. Of course they had to make it as dramatic as possible in order to highten the excitement by saying things like a bear came into their camp (their scout leader snoring), or that they got stranded on a small island (the overnight canoe for their wilderness suvival merit badge).
All the boys had brought a stash of candy with them. First Class actually brought a small bag and a duffel bag! Billy had brought (for the car mind you) a pack of gobstoppers, a sandwich, a pack of chips, and a gatorade. For the camp he brought, more gobstoppers, mike and ikes, sugar babies, mints, gum, graham crackers, cheese in a can with crackers (it's not scout camp if you don't have cheese in a can), and two packs of beef jerky.
The year previous when Billy was a first year scout, their scout leader's car's AC was broken, in the summer, with leather seats, and Billy had run out of his drink. It was heck.
The stories had lasted them about and hour when their leader, BJ, decided it was time for a challenge. First he handed them a pack of doughnut holes in order to get them off track so that it would be harder for them to figure the riddles out. "Okay boys, I want to go home but I can't because the masked man is there, who is the masked man?"
The boys decided to work together on this, well. . . three boys did, one of the second years haden't heard it when their leader told it last year, and the first years of course hadn't heard it, only Billy and Nancy and BJ knew the answer.
It took them nearly and hour to work it out and even after all the clues that could have been given were given, the boys were no closer then when they started. They were compleatly clueless.
"The answer is a catcher at a baseball game! You are at third base, you want to get to home base but you cannot because of the catcher." Everyone nodded and one of them slapped their forehead with the palm of their hand.
The next riddle was In a cabin in the woods, Fred and Sally are found lying dead on the floor in a puddle of water and a pile of broken glass, how did they die?
This one as well stumped the boys untill one of them asked the million dollar question "Are Fred and Sally some sort of animal?"
The second year scouts and BJ got very excited at this question.
"Did they drown?"
"Quite oppisite actually."
"Are they fish!"
"YES!"
"But how did they die?"
"Should we tell them?"
There were nods from the second years and BJ told the first year scouts. Fred and Sally were fish, the window was open in the cabin, a breeze blew in and knocked over the fish tank.
The third and final one was probebly the hardest and definetly the dumbest. If the blind man had seen the saw dust, he wouldn't have walked away without saying anything.
If I were to go through the entire process of how these scouts went through this, this would be one loooooong story. So I am just going to tell you the answer that it took the scouts an hour and a half to figure out.
The blind man was a midget in the circus and when he stuck his cane into the saw dust it sank so he thought he was getting taller so he left the circus.
Go figure.
They were about 40 minutes from scout camp, and we had the perfect mixture of exaution and excitement.
Never allow the scout camp sign to decive you. After passing the sign it is about 2 or 3 more miles down a dirt road before you reach the camp.
The boys past the sign but the first year's first thoughts were "Where is the camp?" and the second years were like, "Yep, this is the same as last year."
So they waited until camp was in sight.
When the scouts arrived they had to wait in the car for about ten minutes while their leader went and checked them in to their camp. Then when he returned they pulled the scout trailer into Camp Old Spoon. They searched for about another ten minutes to find their camp, but eventually they found it. An old faded sign read FLYING EAGLE.
They pulled in and jumped out of the car to stretch their legs. And that was the begining of the boys' PERILS OF SCOUT CAMP!
Story Number 2. The First Evening.
The first night at scout camp is usually the one where everyone rests and relaxes.....HA!
They arrived at their camp and began unloading. BJ told them not to put the sleeping pads on the dirt ground, so where did the scouts put them? Where else, on the dirt ground.
The boys grabbed their bags and tents and looked for a place to set up their tents. Some of the scouts were tenting with each other such as Billy and Big T, and Dragonfly with Chap, and Boondoggle with First Class, and Nancy with The Flirt. Beef was tenting with his dad who happend to be BB the other adult leader.
Billy planed to tent with his brother and his dad when they came down on Thursday near the end of the week.
Everybody had taken the spots that were in the shady part of the camp so Billly and Big T had to pick a spot where the only time there was shade was in the morning (and if you have ever been to scout camp, you would know that the best place to be is when it is shady in the afternoon and not in the morning). The mornings at scout camp are often cold, though some can be quite pleasant actually, and quite warm in the afternoon.
Billy had to find a spot for his dad and his brother so he began his trek to find a spot with shade.
One spot was quite nice but it was down wind from the KYBO's. Bad idea. He looked around a little longer and found a pretty good spot in the shade. He set it up for quite a while and when it was done, BJ called them over to the table in the kitchen area. "Alright boys, we are serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the entire stake from now until Sunday evening." The boys groaned, they didn't like the idea of having to be the last ones to eat for two straight days, "So go get the scout stove, we are having spaghetti, salad, and bread sticks. Billy, get assignments out to the boys."
Billy nodded and said to his men, "Alright, First Class, Chap, you boys are with me, we are going to cook breadsticks. The rest of you boys, get together the spaghetti and sauce!"
After getting the stove, the boys complied. Billy would not have been surprised if the two stoves they had weighed 75 pounds a piece and 50 percent of that weight would have been from the grill part.
The spaghetti was all that was needed to be cooked at the moment. So BR decided to play a game with the boys.
For anyone that has never played "kick the can" this is how it goes. Say you had 10 people. You would dig nine holes in a circle at least two feet from one another. All ten people would get a stick that is two and a half to four feet long. Everyone except for one takes their sticks and places the tip of it in a hole in front of them. Then you take a can and the person in the middle must hit the can with his stick into somebody else's hole while the person tries to keep their hole protected. If you take your stick out of the hole, the person who is hitting the can is allowed to steal your hole by sticking their stick tip into it. If they do that then the person who originally had the hole is now the person in the middle. If the person in the middle is able to knock the can into the person's hole, then the person who had the hole has to go into the middle while the person in the middle gets the hole.
The scouts had 2 cans. They compleatly demolished them. Seriously, you couldn't even tell they were cans anymore. There was some blood shed playing the game. A few of the times the stick hit a leg instead of a can.
And of course when it comes to scout camp and you get cut or bruised, you have to come up with a heroic story for how you got your "Battle Scars".
The game was over once the cans were unusable, after the game was over it was time to get the breadsticks ready.
A scout stove is something that you must be very careful with, if not used correctly you will most likley get your eyebrows singed off. It nearly happened to Billy and Dragonfly their first year at Camp Troll.
It nearly happened to First Class and Boondoggle.
Now, when it comes to precooked breadsticks, you must get it down to a sience. Billy, First Class, and Boondoggle did no such thing.
The ingredients you need to make precooked breadsticks are: 1 or 2 sticks of Butter, Garlic Salt, and most importantly the breadsticks.
To cook these you must butter the stove (the scouts had several sticks of butter on hand, you will see why it was a good desicion in a minute). Then you must place the breadsticks on and brown them while seasoning them with the garlic salt.
There were more than fifty breadsticks to cook and they could fit about twenty to twenty-five on the stove at a time.
While cooking the first batch, a little fly decided that the best place to land would be on a hot stove. It started hopping around and to scouts this was very entertaining so Billy, First Class, and Boondoggle didn't bother moving it until they were sure it was dead. After they scraped it onto the ground they agreed that the fly landing on the stove did not leave that group and that if anyone asked about the flavor then they would say it was a special seasoning.
"Billy, will you butter the stove for the next batch?" asked First Class as he and Boondoggle placed the finished first batch into a warmed pot to keep them fresh.
Billy nodded and tooked the quickly melting butter and started to butter the stove,
It was going well at first but after about two seconds the butter fell out of its wrapper and onto the stove.
Billy wasn't sure what to do so he kind of hopped around looking for something to get the butter with while saying out loud, "Guys, guys, butter alert!"
First Class and Boondoggle looked at him then at the stove and then their eyes went wide. Soon all three scouts were saying, "Get it! Get it!" and eventually Billy picked up a spatula and picked what was left of the butter of the stove.
There wasn't much but what was on the stove, they spread around with a knife and threw the breadsticks on as quickly as possible.
By the time the second batch was done people were starting to arrive to eat.
When it came to passing out the breadsticks, the numbers of the food dropped a little too fast for comfort.
The boys eventually were able to cook the breadsticks quickly but then they decided to just deliver the food to the people. They placed a huge stack on a paper plate and handed it to Billy. As soon as he went to the first table it was like a shark attack! They emptied the entire plate, if there is anything you should know about scouts it's that they sure can eat.
Billy went back for more and got another plate full, he took them and they lasted a little bit longer that time but they still went quickly.
He went out three more times and each time came back with an empty plate.
Finally the cooks were allowed to eat. They dove upon the food as if they had not eaten in days even though they had filled up on candy, chips, and soda not two hours before.
The food actually was not too bad.
After the food, the troop built a fire and the stake gathered around it.
The scouts sat through about and hour of poorly preformed skits and songs sang off tune but hey, that's scouts for ya. The Stags and Wolverines preformed a skit that was famous in the troop, the skit known as Silly Billy.
It only needs two actors in it but BJ told them thst they needed to incorporate anyone who wanted to be in it and that was about everyone in the troop.
Billy and Nancy always played as Billy and his friend (guess which one Billy played as). They were famous for the parts.
Nancy would go on first and act as if he was widdling a stick.
Billy enters with hands clasped together as if he is holding a bug.
Nancy: Whacha got there Billy?
Billy: Got myself a butterfly.
Nancy: Whacha plan on doin' wit' dat there butterfly Billy?
Billy: Gonna get me some butter.
Nancy: Silly Billy, you can't get no butter from no butterfly.
Billy: Jus' you see, jus' you see!
Billy exits and enters with a some butter.
Nancy: Where'd you get dat butter Billy?
Billy: Butterfly.
Billy exits then enters as if he has a bug.
Nancy: Whacha got there Billy?
Billy: Harsefly (horsefly(country accent)).
Nancy: Whacha plan on doin' wit' dat there harsefly?
Billy: Gonna get myself a harse!
Nancy: Silly Billy, you can git no harse from no harsefly.
Billy: Jus you see, jus you see!
Billy exits then enters as if he is riding a horse.
Nancy: Where'd you get that harse Billy?
Billy: Harsefly.
Billy exits then enters as if he has a bug.
Nancy: Whacha got there Billy?
Billy: Dragonfly.
Nancy: Whacha gonna do wit' dat' there dragonfly?
Billy: Gonna get myself a dragon.
Nancy: Silly Billy, you can't git no dragon from no dragonfly.
Billy: Jus you see, jus you see!
Billy exits then enters running and screaming.
Billy: RUUUNN!
Nancy: BILLY! WHERE'D YOU GIT THAT DRAGON!
Billy: DRAGONFLY!
Billy exits then enters as if he has a bug and has a sly smile on his face.
Nancy: Whacha got there Billy?
Billy: Ladybug.
Nancy: Shoo Billy I'm wit' you!
Nancy puts his arm around Billy's shoulder and the two exit.
The skit was a sucsess.
After a while, the other troops began to leave until it was just Billy and his troop sitting around the last burning embers of the fire, the hot coals made their faces orange. "Well, I dunno about you guys, but I'm turning in," said BJ. The scouts nodded their agreement and got into their tents. The majority of them were so tired from the ride up that rather then getting into their PJ's, they just hopped into their sleeping bags.
Billy laid down with his head against the pillow and was about to doze off when Big T said, "Hey Billy, Do you have any idea what we're doing tomorrow?"
"We're goin' to church," said Billy, his voice slightly muffled from the pillow. After about ten more minutes of questions from Big T. The scout finally decided to let Billy doze off into a nice, slightly cold, scout camp slumber.
To Be Continued....
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Thank you for reading!
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