You Might Be a Super Scouter If . . .
- You own enough scouting mugs to supply the council office for a year.
- You know at least ten different ways to lay out a cooking fire but don't know how to
start your stove at home.
- You can reduce the length of a fifty foot long rope to ten feet by tying knots in it,
and you don't have to repeat any.
- You are asked to discuss a classic novel and you begin talking about old versions of the
Scout Handbook.
- You can frame a house with lashings.
- You own so many patches you could make an entire fashion collection by sewing them
together.
- You are asked to name the three most influential figures in history, and you start with
Baden Powell.
- You have more palms than a small tropical island.
- Your uniform is so encrusted with patches that it can stop 50 cal. shells.
- You have so many merit badges that you have to but them on both sides of the sash.
- Your patch collection takes up two rooms.
- You have developed a tolerance to Philmont food.
- You do all your cooking in a dutch oven, even at home.
- You never get lost in the forest, but you can't find your home room.
- Your Fifty Miler patches stretch fifty miles when laid end to end.
- You can prepare camp meals that are actually good, with no utensils.
- Your Quality Unit patches extend from your shoulder to your socks.
- You enjoy eating Pemmican bars (without the need of Tabasco sauce.)
- Your adult scout uniform is green.
- The moths don't even go near your red wool jacket.
- You would rather sort your patches than go to dinner with your folks.