Bows & Arrows, B.B. guns anyone?

It happened...I've been waiting 7 years for this one day. I pick up my son from school and the first thing out of his mouth as he buckles up is "Mom, I have to come back to school tonight at 6pm to be a cub scout so I can shoot bows and arrows, b.b. guns and go camping this weekend - but we'll be back for school, ok?"
I just start cracking up and finally am able to say "Did someone come talk to you today dressed in a boy scout uniform and tell you all that?" He said, "Yes! A man with a really big belly!"
OH YEAH....THAT'S THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOR YOU! How do I know - because I was once one of them! That's right folks - stop laughing - I graduated from my all women's college (think small, liberal arts - communication's degree) and was desperate to pay the bills for myself and my new husband (who was still in undergraduate school at MTSU) and I landed a job with the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. Might I add, I was the first woman District Executive for Rutherford County - thank you very much! Of course I wasn't the first woman to ever work for the boy scouts in case you are wondering that too - and I'm sorry if that offends any of you but I was 21 years old and it was a darn good job for someone wanting to get into the nonprofit field!
One of my responsibilities (I still have nightmares about this part) was wearing a boy scout uniform - yes, those green shorts that came to your knees and tall green socks and hiking boots (that part was ok) and that button shirt with those patches on it (I wore a jacket even in 100 degree weather if I ever had to get out of the car and go in a store!). And yes I had to enter in all 50 schools in this lovely county and corral all the 1st through 5th grade boys into the cafeteria by myself mind you at one time and get them fired up enough so they would get in their minivans and tell their moms they had to join cub scouts or they would die!
They did train us on these evil tactics let me tell you...we would practice getting the kids fired up with "Do you want to shoot bows and arrows? Do you want to shoot a b.b. gun? Do you want to sleep in a cave?" Every year there was a new secret tactic too - once I had to learn to juggle b/c all the boys who signed up got a set of juggling balls. One year I had to learn to start a fire with (what do you call it?) flint sticks? Yes, in the cafeteria or gym I am surrounded by 75 boys and I'm starting a miniature fire with with cotton - if only the principal knew what I was up to! Lord knows that I had no proof any of those poor boys would get to do that stuff if their parents didn't bring them to the camps in the summer but hey, read the small print on the bottom of the page young men - "IF YOUR PARENTS ARE ORGANIZED AND MAKE YOUR GROUP FUN SO THAT YOU ACTUALLY GO CAMPING AND ATTEND A DAY CAMP IN THE HOT SUMMER WHERE YOUR PARENTS ARE THE VOLUNTEER LEADERS THAT MAKE ALL THIS HAPPEN!" Oh, the guilt I feel now!!!!! I wanted to walk up to that Boy Scout Executive last night and say "Do you know what you really have done to my son - setting his expectations up so high????? Do you, huh????" But I just laughed and smiled through the meeting - oh, yeah I went with Eli last night - how could I not? The boy has never (NEVER) been so excited about joining anything in his life! So, it came full circle...I got to sit in the cafeteria chair and listen to the man in the uniform tell me how boy scouts would make him a better citizen - he'd probably be a senator, astronaut or maybe a President because of it - and you know what? I was actually a little excited! Too bad a 7month pregnant mom can't be the Tiger Cub Leader b/c I would do it I tell you! Well I have to go so I can keep trying to talk my husband into volunteering to lead Eli's group so they can....go shoot bows and arrows, b.b. guns and camp in a cave this year!