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After a major ice storm that brings down hundreds of trees you think "Wow, we're set for firewood for a long time." |
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After the hurricane knocks out your power you are happy as a clam cooking for the neighbors with your vagabond stove and cardboard box oven. |
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Any of your kid's old crayons, scissors, or glue that they're ready to throw out go into the 'bucket' for the troop. |
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At least one room in your house ALWAYS has some kind of Girl Scout paperwork. |
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Co workers ask if you've got: an aspirin, a needle and thread, a safety pin...and you always do! |
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Every girl in the troop has read the latest troop newsletter except your daughter, because she was asleep when you finally finished typing it and you forgot to give her one. |
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Friends or relatives call you up with so-so's birthday party and they want it to be a princess party. You can help with crafts and decorations! |
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It takes a couple of hours to answer when your friends ask you to help come up with an outdoor cooking recipe for the "ladies only" camping trip as you have to have to run through all of your files! |
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Most of your silverware has remnants of red nail polish on them from past campouts. |
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Neighborhood children come to your house all summer long asking "Got any gimp?" and you always do. |
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One consideration when buying your next vehicle is how many girls with sleeping bags and backpacks will fit it it. |
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People stop you at the market to ask how to join Girl Scouting/Guiding. |
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People stop you at work to buy cookies...in July...and you HAVE some. |
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The majority of your wardrobe consists of GS t-shirts. |
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Troop equipment lives in your vehicle. |
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When attending college you roast mini marshmallows on a paper clip over a candle to make mini s'mores in your dorm room while singing "Rise up o flame". |
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When somebody points to any one of the girls in your troop and asks "Is that your kid?" you automatically say "Yes!" |
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When the family picnic gets rain out and all adults look at you when the children start running crazy...(or any holiday for that matter)...And you think up a craft using paper bags, paper plates or whatever is handy. |
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When you use the saying "my girls" yet you only have 1 daughter . . . Or even better - when you use the saying "my girls" and you don't have *any* children! |
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You always say, "Of course we have room for one more girl. |
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You and your family are drinking all of your milk out of quart milk containers because you saw this really cool way to cook hotdogs and you need 30 containers by September. |
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You ask every place you visit if they do anything special for Girl Scout tours. |
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You bring your daughter's handbook on vacation to see if you can knock off a few try-it/badge/IP requirements. |
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You buy a pair of slacks or socks because they match the color of your uniform. |
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You buy bizarre craft items at stores if they're on sale because you're sure that someday you'll use them. |
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You buy office furniture for your home to file, store, and organize all your scouting "stuff"! |
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You buy things because they 'girl scout' colors. |
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You can line up "your girls" in alphabetical order without looking at them. |
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You can recite your council's "permission slip form" from memory. |
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You can't find last year's tax return but you know exactly where the instructions are for the Christmas angel craft. |
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You can't remember relative's birthdays but you do remember Juliette Low's. |
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You can't say no when an event needs planning. |
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You carry extra garbage bags in your car, just in case. |
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You carry the troop telephone list, a first aid kit, paper towels, wet wipes, and a "lost and found" box in your car. |
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You cook enough breakfast for twenty girls, and you're only camping with your family of four! |
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You encourage your kids to eat tuna fish sandwiches to get the empty cans. |
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You gain more than 5 pounds during cookie time. |
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You get really excited when you find out that your dad is still saving coffee cans behind your mother's back! |
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You get upset when your husband dares to think that he can use that tuna can you have been saving. |
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You got tears in your eyes reading the descriptions of the Sing-along. |
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You have a big red S on your forehead. |
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You have a bookcase full of Girl Scout related reference materials. |
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You have a recurring nightmare that your awards ceremony is coming up, and you have a pile of patches and badges and no clue who earned them. |
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You have at least one saucepan that is a little black round the outside, despite hours of scrubbing. |
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You have Council's number on speed dial. |
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You have forgotten how to say NO, or how to spell it! |
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You have more photos of your troop than your family, and they are neatly in albums, while the family ones are in shoe boxes or drawers. |
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You have sorted out the badges for all twenty girls in your troop for the awards ceremony tomorrow, but you haven't sewn on your daughter's badges from the last ceremony. |
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You have two grocery sacks filled with styrofoam meat trays in the garage just in case you might need them for something. |
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You introduce your daughters by program level. |
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You kept right on being SUD for 8 years after your only child (daughter) graduated from high school. |
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You know at least 3 other adult members/leaders phone numbers for memory. |
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You look at every new girl and you see "Brownie", "Junior", "Cadette", or "Senior!" |
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You make campfire foods at home and serve them to your family to try out new recipes. |
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You never throw out ANYTHING without first thinking "Could the troop use this in some way?" |
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You own handbooks for older levels that you haven't reached yet. |
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You plan your family vacation around Council's day camp schedule. |
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You roast marshmallows and make s'mores over your stove. |
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You run into teenage girls who had been part of your troops when they were brownies or juniors and the girls hug you. |
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You save your dryer lint to make fire starters. |
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You save the cores from toilet paper and paper towels, scraps of gift wrap and wallpaper, scraps of ribbon, fabric and yarn, film canisters, etc. |
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You shop at the council store for birthday party gifts. |
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You still have every piece of paper relating to GS that's crossed your threshold. |
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You take paper out of the recycling bin at your office because you know the scouts can use it for their next project. |
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You wake up early on your neighborhood's recycling day to check out the bins on your block before the truck comes by. |
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You were a scout from age 7 to age 18. |
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You were absolutely ecstatic your first year of college to buy cookies from your dorm advisor's daughter because it was the first time in 11 years you didn't have to sell cookies. |
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You will buy almost anything from the clearance bins for a dollar or two because you just know you'll think of some way the girls can use it. |
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Your family eats fast food more than twice a week because of Girl Scout meetings. |
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Your garage looks like a camping store. |
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Your husband is afraid to take out the trash until you check it for possible craft supplies. |
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Your husband registers as an adult member so he can see you now and then. |
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Your kids have posted your name to a milk carton as missing (when you're actually at a Girl Scout event) |
