Nate has been attending Cub Scout Day Camp this past week. He has been having a lot of fun, and even got a badge for marksmanship on the bb gun range - he has been getting bullseye's at 50 ft. since the second day. He has never picked up a bb gun before, but clearly has great hand/eye coordination - proving those video gaming wasn't completely worthless. (yeah, right).
Anyway, last night of camp was the campfire and time for all of the dens to do a skit in front of everyone - parents were attending for end of camp activities. Let me preface this by saying that my child can be a bit of an attention whore and smart ass - I have no idea where he gets this, but I plainly blame his dad.
So, like all boy skits, the one that Nate's den had been practicing all week and was going to perform didn't really make that much sense. Something about one boy has beans in his ears and each boy goes up to him saying, "you've got beans in your ears". The first boy says, "what?" other boy says, "you've got beans in your ears", causing the first boy to say "what?" and the other boy says "awww, forget it", ad nauseum to the last boy and then the boy takes the beans out of his ears. I told you it didn't make sense. Well, Nate is the second boy to go out and tell the kid he had beans in his ears and all is going well, up until the first boy says "what?" the seond time. To which Nate replies, "awww, screw you". Much to the horror of his mother and the rest of the 120 so people out there at that time.
On the one hand I was wishing the ground would just open up and swallow me and on the other hand I wanted to get up and beat the child in front of everyone. Luckily, the skit continued and the ceremony went on, while the den leader grabbed...urm...took Nate aside and explained to him in no uncertain terms that what he had done was completely unacceptable and inappropriate. I wanted to kill him. He realized he had screwed up and afterwards he went over to the entire den and apologized for messing the skit up and we went home, with him apologizing and trying not to die on the way home from momma's wrath. Thank goodness I do not have to see any of those people again.
Rule #1: Do not embarass your mother in front of a large group of people.
He's so gonna pay for that one forever.
Posted by thatothrgirl at July 23, 2004 11:08 PM