You Might Be Taking
Scouting Too Seriously If ....

• You buy that '89 Chevy Caprice because you really like that fleur-di-lis hood ornament.

• Your favorite color is olive drab.

• You decide to lash together the new deck on the back of your house.

• You plan to serve foil meals at your next dinner party.

• You walk the streets in broad daylight with a drinking cup and flashlight hanging from your belt.

• You raise your hand in the Scout sign at a heated business meeting.

• You were arrested by airport security because you wouldn't give up your official BSA pocket knife until the cop said "thank you".

• You don't mind losing power to your house for three days.

• Your son hides his copy of Boy's Life from you.

• Your plans for remodeling the bathroom include digging the hole deeper.

• You trade your 25 foot center console fishing boat in on that great little 15 foot canoe.

• Your favorite movie is Follow Me Boys starring Fred McMurray, and you spent months trying to convince Disney to release it on home video.

• Your patron saint is Ward Cleaver.

• You disconnect the automatic dishwasher in favor of the "3 pot method".

• You sneak a cup of "bug juice" after the troop turns in for the night.

• You can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

• You gave your wife a mummy bag rated for -15 degrees Fahrenheit for Christmas.

• You name one of your kids Baden.

• You can recite the 12 points of the Scout Law backwards, in order, in three seconds flat.

• You bought 10,000 shares of Coleman stock on an inside tip they were about to release a microwave accessory for their camp stove line.

• You can't eat eggs anymore unless they are cooked in a zip-locked bag.

• You plan to get rich by writing a best selling Dutch oven cook book.

• You actually own a left-handed smoke shifter.

• Singing Scout Vespers makes you cry uncontrollably.

• You were disappointed when Scouting Magazine didn't win the Pulitzer Prize last year.