Rick Obermeyer passes along a list of 100 Ways To Tell If You’re a Boy Scout. The author of the list was Chris Harvey.<\/p>\n
Of course I hear Jeff Foxworthy when I read it.<\/p>\n
You might be a Boy Scout if …<\/p>\n
1. You have missed the party of the year to go camping.<\/p>\n
2. Dressed for dinner, to you, means knee high socks, green shorts with<\/p>\n
matching belt, and a tan shirt.<\/p>\n
3. Casually dressed means, knee high socks, green shorts with matching belt,<\/p>\n
and a BSA t-shirt.<\/p>\n
4. You constantly smell of tobacco even though you do not smoke.<\/p>\n
5. Half your shirts are class b’s.<\/p>\n
6. All your shorts are green.<\/p>\n
7. Disappearing for weeks at a time doesn’t raise questions from your<\/p>\n
parents.<\/p>\n
8. You make less than a quarter an hour over you summers.<\/p>\n
9. You have over 100 contact names in your cell phone just for BSA related<\/p>\n
stuff.<\/p>\n
10. You know the Order of the Arrow has little to do with archery.
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\n11. It is not uncommon to insult someone by calling them a tenderfoot.<\/p>\n
12. You understand what the term “made eagle” means.<\/p>\n
13. You have gotten out of a ticket because of your uniform.<\/p>\n
14. You live at home, but spent 120 days\/nights in the woods last year.<\/p>\n
15. You have hiked 20 miles because you were bored.<\/p>\n
16. You still walk to school.<\/p>\n
17. You were first offered drugs at a summer camp.<\/p>\n
18. You always have at least 1 knife no matter where you are.<\/p>\n
19. Your nervous habit is playing with knife or Zippo.<\/p>\n
20. Your girlfriends parents are quite used to number 19<\/p>\n
21. You have lost at least one set of keys while doing water sports.<\/p>\n
22. You have a patch collection that rivals your earth science teachers rock<\/p>\n
collection.<\/p>\n
23. Half your work experience on your resume is from staffing BSA events.<\/p>\n
24. You know that NOAC doesn’t mean that you have no air conditioning.<\/p>\n
25. You have used the excuse “my homework got soaked in the rain.”<\/p>\n
26. The teacher believed it.<\/p>\n
27. You judge people by what\/how many patches are on their uniform.<\/p>\n
28. You have stayed up all night, then completed a 50 mile hike.<\/p>\n
29. You did it the next day too.<\/p>\n
30. To you comfort is a crackling fire.<\/p>\n
31. You have bought cigarettes while in BSA uniform.<\/p>\n
32. Your most expensive outfit is a plywood uniform.<\/p>\n
33. Your knife is worth more than you car.<\/p>\n
34. You have swam in water deemed “unable to sustain life.”<\/p>\n
35. You spend more on camp gear than your family at Christmas<\/p>\n
36. You have been pulled over while in a van of 16 tired smelly people<\/p>\n
wearing matching outfits.<\/p>\n
37. You know how good the Boy Scouts really are.<\/p>\n
38. You have lost a _____ (knife, ax, tent stake etc.) and found it a year<\/p>\n
later.<\/p>\n
39. You have had to carry one kid 1.5 miles because he didn’t tell you he<\/p>\n
had the flu before you left.<\/p>\n
40. You treated 10 kids for dehydration because you forgot to specify that<\/p>\n
they all needed FILLED water bottles<\/p>\n
41. You have had a meal of nothing but what you fond on the trail.<\/p>\n
42. You know a mean recipe for wild carrot stew.<\/p>\n
43. When you wander away from the group at the national forest, you find<\/p>\n
your way back without a worry.<\/p>\n
44. You have a cell phone but know that 98% of the time you are away from<\/p>\n
home you won’t get reception.<\/p>\n
45. You have never work a conventional job on a weekend.<\/p>\n
46. Your idea of a small fire is less than 6 feet in diameter.<\/p>\n
47. You know of 20 ways to start a fire without matches.<\/p>\n
48. You have succeeded in them all.<\/p>\n
49. You have never slept in a cabin willingly.<\/p>\n
50. The best time of your life took place in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n
51. You don’t remember the last time you didn’t come in on Monday all dirty<\/p>\n
and sore.<\/p>\n
52. You have come out of the shower dirty.<\/p>\n
53. You enjoy sitting by the fire half awake carrying on conversations about<\/p>\n
nothing.<\/p>\n
54. You can play duiker.<\/p>\n
55. You have played risk for 40 hours straight.<\/p>\n
56. You have time to read things like this.<\/p>\n
57. You have time to make stuff like this.<\/p>\n
58. You have spent 16 hrs in a car for a one day camping trip.<\/p>\n
59. You have missed 3 days of school in the past year for camping trips.<\/p>\n
60.. You missed another 5 for being too tired top attend.<\/p>\n
61. You have a hiked every trail in the county.<\/p>\n
62. You know the local woods so well you can walk through them at night<\/p>\n
without a light.<\/p>\n
63. You have done so numerous times.<\/p>\n
64. You have left a cam,up at 2 am because the new scouts got scared.<\/p>\n
65. You have left camp at 3 am because the cocky older scouts got<\/p>\n
hypothermia.<\/p>\n
66. You realize that 90% of your friends are from campouts.<\/p>\n
67. You have woke up with a raccoon staring you in the face.<\/p>\n
68. It was nothing new.<\/p>\n
69. You are labeled a pyre by everyone that has ever seen you out of school.<\/p>\n
70. You have trained in first aid your whole life.<\/p>\n
71. You have had to use everything you learned in a single weekend.<\/p>\n
72. You train those younger in safety, but have personally never followed<\/p>\n
while they were not around.<\/p>\n
73. You can name 10 eagle scouts without even thinking.<\/p>\n
74. You have walked into a store in full class A.<\/p>\n
75. You have sung a song in the middle of McDonalds.<\/p>\n
76. It was okay because 30 other people were doing it too.<\/p>\n
77. The neighbors realized that the guy that came to your house with a beard<\/p>\n
and strange dirty clothes every Sunday was you.<\/p>\n
78. You hate bears because the always steal your food.<\/p>\n
79. You have returned home after a summer away and been greeted with a “who<\/p>\n
are you?”<\/p>\n
80. You know that a group of Boy Scouts is not the group to argue with.<\/p>\n
81. You have been made fun of for wearing a Class A.<\/p>\n
82. You mad them scared of you by throwing your knife with precision into<\/p>\n
the wall behind him.<\/p>\n
83. You have made more friends while in the middle of the woods than you did<\/p>\n
in 10 years at your school.<\/p>\n
84. You have 2 rooms for BSA\/camping gear.<\/p>\n
85. You have burnt your scout handbook because it was the only dry tinder<\/p>\n
you had.<\/p>\n
86. You know what an 3000cubic inch IF pack is.<\/p>\n
87. You are the one person that doesn’t look when someone says “LOOK A<\/p>\n
_________.”(rabbit, dear, bear etc.)<\/p>\n
88. Freeze dried food is a sizable chunk of your diet.<\/p>\n
89. You have calluses on your shoulders from backpacking.<\/p>\n
90. You have cleared a 3 mile trail through the brush only to find a trail<\/p>\n
coming to the same spot from .25 miles down the road.<\/p>\n
91. You constantly point out that people are using the wrong knot for that<\/p>\n
particular job.<\/p>\n
92. You have ate the roots of a dandelion.<\/p>\n
93. You realize what you forgot while in the car and halfway there every<\/p>\n
time.<\/p>\n
94. You have paid for an entire weekends food supply in quarters.<\/p>\n
95. The pizza place close to your favorite campground is on speed dial.<\/p>\n
96. You are on first name basis with the local ER staff.<\/p>\n
97. you know that if we all complied with national policy, council policy,<\/p>\n
and scoutmaster policy we wouldn’t be able to get out of bed.<\/p>\n
98. you read the entire Scout handbook, Scoutmaster handbook, and list of<\/p>\n
national policy, just to prove sheath knives were not against the rules.<\/p>\n
99. You set off metal detectors no matter where you go.<\/p>\n
100. It takes 5 minutes to empty your pockets at the airport, police station<\/p>\n
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