Scouter's Wife
Chuck May (cmay01@INTERSERV.COM)
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 18:59:05 -0400
I wrote this (OK, I "borrowed" a few of the items, but I wrote the rest) a
year ago, in honor of two Scouters' Wives who had died in the previous
year. I thought I'd post it, and see if anyone has any others to add.
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The Scouter's Wife and the Scout's Mother
(In memory of Nancy Plitt and Judy Simpson, and in honor of all others)
If your laundry routine includes inspecting for red shoulder tabs ... you
might be a Scouter's wife or a Scout's mother.
If a dab of Coleman fuel behind each ear is more alluring to your husband
than Chanel No. 5 ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your laundry routine includes inspecting for blue cards in shirt pockets
.. you might be a Scout's mother.
If a Thursday night family dinner consists of Whoppers in the car in the
church parking lot .. you might be a Scouter's wife and a Scout's mother.
If you cook a nice pot roast for supper for the Scoutmaster because he came
straight from work to a PLC meeting at your house, and then heat up the
leftovers for your husband when he gets home, ... you might be a Scouter's
wife.
If your only real vacation in 5 years involves driving from Maryland to
Philmont with a carload of boys ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband plans a "night out with the boys", and you know that it
will be a night _outdoors_ with boys ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your most memorable vacation with your husband was being the only woman
in a crew of nine men and boys on the Allagash River in Maine .. you might
be a Scouter's wife.
If you spend your honeymoon wearing green shorts and knee socks ... you
might be a new Scouter's wife.
If your husband mutters in his sleep about a ticket, and you know we hasn't
just caught speeding .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you've converted your dining room into an office, and your garage looks
like L.L. Bean's attic .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband's tan line starts just above his knees, and ends three
inches below his knees ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you have shelves of coffee mugs, and you don't drink coffee ... you
might be a Scouter's wife.
If your best china cup has a 1865 Camporee logo on it .. you might be a
Scouter's wife.
If your husband has disappeared, and you know you can always find him at
Price Club trying to get a deal on #10 cans of peaches for cobbler ... you
might be a Scouter's wife.
If you tell your husband you are expecting to hear the pitter-patter of
little feet, and he thinks the PLC meeting is at your house tonight ... you
might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband brings home three rolls of red-white-and-blue ribbon to be
sewn into Mothers' ribbons, and says "Don't worry, the Court of Honor isn't
until tomorrow night and we only need 15 made" .. . and you don't have a
sewing machine ... and you get it done ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you just _know_ that the sun room will be finished, right after the next
Goshen Bears workend ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your family car seats 8, even though there are only 4 in your family ...
you might be a Scouter's wife.
If the money collected for your memorial is used to but an air compressor
for Scout Camp, and everyone thinks that is just right ... you were a
Scouter's wife.
If you keep your Mother's ribbon, with the Eagle pin, with you _forever_,
.. you were a Scouter's mother.
Chuck & Nancy May, June 1996.
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Chuck May
Assistant Vice Chairman - Program
Seneca District
National Capital Area Council
Gaithersburg, MD
cmay01@interserv.com
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