LogFAQs > #883543653

I grew up in the suburbs and loathe nature. Scouts was never going to be a good fit.

It didn't help that our local Troop was run by idiots who either didn't really know or care what they were doing, because it made the whole experience kind of lame in general. For pretty much everyone, it felt more like a chore your parents forced you into rather than anything you actually wanted to be part of yourself.

About my only fond memories of Scouts at all was in Cub Scouts, the one time we did a team race where we had to build a cart and then drag it through wooded trails in a race that was sort of like a stripped down version of the race in "Midnight Madness" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Madness_(film)#Plot ). Basically, you had to go from station-to-station quickly, answer trivia questions, and solve minor kid-friendly riddles.

But now that I actually try to look it up on the Internet (to provide one of my patented illustrative links) it seems like no information exists about it anywhere under any name, so maybe it was only a local thing that our local Packs did together, and not an overarching thing that all Scouts did. Which, honestly, just makes me think even less of Scouts than I already had.


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