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MalcolmNathaniel -> RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... (1/3/2014 7:26:58 PM)
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Okay! So this is just a funny little story. I do not want to take away anything from the vets who have served.
So one day, when I was a very high ranking Scout my father decided to come up to camp with us. Work had him running late so he didn't show up until well after sundown.
Well he shows up and we've already spread into two camps. The grownups had their campfire and we kids had our own. This is an important part of the story because it shows how my Pop fooled everyone. Twice.
At the grownups campsite they were passing around a bottle and remembering their own Scouting days. Then Jim decided to toss another log on the fire. My father says, "Don't do that you fool! That's a perfectly good coon stick!"
Jim says, "What?"
"A coon stick! You can just take that out into the woods and get a coon in moments."
Jim was a biologist and a Southerner, so he quickly disabused my father of this notion using rational debate. Well, Pop grabbed the stick, walked into the woods, and came back a few moments later with a raccoon.
Pretty much everyone was stunned.
Here's the secret: Remember how I said he was delayed at work? Well, in the dark he was following a Jeep that hit a raccoon and he picked it up in order to teach all of us Scouts how to skin an animal.
Less than an hour later he used the same ruse when he sent all of us on a snipe hunt. I already knew what a snipe hunt was but, you know, it's tradition.
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