Yeah, can’t do that for Cub Scouts. We did some activities last night and even with a 2:1 ratio of boys to adults, things were getting out of hand.
Somehow I am now both the pack activities coordinator (though I haven’t done anything yet, tonight will probably start all that up) and the “popcorn kernel” - I’m running the annual popcorn sale in the late summer/early fall. I asked our den leader “so, uh, did anyone volunteer for that yet?” and her response was “no, but I think you just did.”
At least SQL Saturday will be over after this weekend so I’ll have some time free up there.
As a Scoutmaster, I hated the littlest one - one boundless mass of noise.
I liked the older guys… once they started being able and willing to listen and interact.
Venturing was the coolest… but getting them to understand it was THEIR show and I was just there to advise was tough. They still wanted the adults to lead them around.
I was in the right mindset, Dak… I never even noticed until you posted.
And no, generally Dennis managed the little guys, Joe V the middle, Joe W and I did the older set. So while I saw them, and we all helped everyone else as needed, mostly I didn’t work with the young set.
@ClockWorkXon, I’d like to thank your and @Nabiki’s state for the wondrous time I had last night filling the gas tank on my new mower.
Due to the multiple “safety features” on my new gas can I successfully dumped about half a gallon of gas on my hands, one arm, the gas can itself, the grass around me, and the side of my mower.
Hey, I just live here.
That article does explain why I don’t use the gas can I have stored in the trunk of my car, though. It does spill more without a vent.
Is it just California that writes these stupidly vague laws, though? I’ve been griping for years about how poorly written the medical marijuana law is. The law states that one can grow “as much as needed” for personal medical use. That’s why my neighbour was able to have about 80 plants growing in the back yard and the police couldn’t do anything about it.
You mean like making it illegal to kiss a woman not your own wife on a Sunday? That was Alaska. And there are a whole lot of ridiculous laws, in nearly every jurisdiction.
I’m sure the gas can thing got changed because of lawsuits. Somebody sued because gas leaked out of the vent. The lawsuits got too much, and gas can makers complained to the politicians. And the politicians, like politicians everywhere, did the usual, nonsensical thing and slapped a quick-fix not-fix on it.
By the way… How the hell does a spout “close automatically”? My last gas can (big, red, plastic) was bought in California and had a vent, and the plastic spout could only close “automatically” with divine or supernatural intervention. My complaint with it was that the plastic was too flexible and thin. It fell across my tire jack and developed a cut down the side.
The gas venting was an environmental concern. The fact that everyone who buys one of these spills a gallon of gas trying to use it is somehow better.
It closes automagically because there is a spring in the nozzle now. And there is no vent hole.
I would like to make the people who wrote the original law, which isn’t all that vague it’s written to ban the vents without saying to actually ban them, it is the intended purpose. I would like to take those people and make them use these new cans.
I need to go through my old garage stuff and get my old cans back.
The biggest manufacturer of gas cans was sued into oblivion because people were getting hurt pouring gas on open flames, something it says on the can not to do. It was costing the company millions of dollars to win the suits it could win, and millions more to lose.
