I am a little stressed. The following is a rant.
I inturrupt this rant to say the following:
Also I am way behind on this thread, so if something important or extra funny is posted please, some one, PM me. For example if I had not already seen the photo of Mark and Wesley (and the cat comment by Rhonda) that would have made a good PM.
Back to the stress.
Why for the love of cheese do Men have positions of power? Why for the sake of all that is yellow do they let men set agendas and plan things without female input? No, I am not talking about the trip (next week, 8 days from now, tfi). It is Cub Scouts. Men should be banned from everything except teaching the boys how to tie knot's, and maybe how to use tools (though that is just scary). My leaders meeting last night was like watching a bad sitcom. It seems no one has ever told our new Cub Master: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I am ok with change. I embrace change. However a good idea, if you want to make a ton of changes to an organization that is running smoothly, is to run those ideas by, I don't know, maybe someone who has been a leader for 5 years now. Someone who remembers why we do things the way we do them. Moi, I mean. Tfi. In case that was not clear.
Here is an example of a new idea I had to shoot down last night.
At the fundraiser auction (cake auction), limit each family to one item (cake).
Yeah, um, what part of auction do you not understand? Why would you want to make the pool of bidders smaller? How will we get the bids to go up if everyone is waiting to bid on the cake they(their son) made, because you can only win one? Why not set prices and call it a cake sale? Oh, you mean lots of people bidding drives the price up and we make more money? Really. Interesting. Why didn't I think of that????
The very sad thing is how often I had to say things like the above. And yes I was pretty much that snarky about it.
I won that one. I also won a few others. I lost on the snack at Pack meetings topic. The new Cubmaster wants snacks at our Pack meetings, an idea he got from some other man at a training session.
Pros- Happy kids.
Cons- Extra mess
We have no $ in the budget for this and we are broke as a Pack
It is against the rules for the space we use (!!!)
Multiple scouts with food allergies
Our meetings already run too long
sugar+boys+need them to sit still and behave=bad idea
Yeah, I can see how I lost that one. Clearly the Pro (singular) outweighs the Cons.
Rant over. NOG (No offense guys), I know our Maelstrom men are way smarter than that.
I've given her/him plenty of brilliance. SOO, I am a member of the Hanes tagless t-shirt club. Like a wallflower at the prom.
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last night I got to tell everyone that I got offered a 2 night stay for a great price! I'll PM u with the details.
Happy Birthday YAK! 
