Girl Scouts are Insane

We had our leader meeting the other night for our Girl Scout Service Unit. We discussed a very important day to Girl Scouts - Thinking Day. It's a day when we get together, all of our troops in Auburn, and celebrate other countries and learn about them. There is a theme every year. last year was WATER. So we each chose a country and prepared a display about how water is used, preserved, etc. in that country. Of course I grabbed Panama, there's more water in that canal than just about anywhere. It was cool, girls did Djibouti, Germany, Mexico. We learned how they conserve water, survive droughts, even use steam to make electricity (Iceland). It was awesome. We did all sorts of water experiments. What a great day.

So, what's the theme this year? “We can stop the spread of AIDS, malaria and other diseases.”
Of course, you can imagine my reaction, as well as the other leaders. We laughed. Good joke, and the council person said "No, that's really the theme". I, being the shy, quiet person who avoids the spotlight, jumped up and yelled, "I call The Congo, so we can teach the girls all about Ebola and if they see a person with blood spewing out of every orifice then DON'T GO NEAR THEM, RUN AWAY! That will stop the spread of Ebola."

My point, Gee, let's give every 6 and 7 year old Brownie a horror show of death and disease annihilating the planet just for fun. That'll get 'em thinking every night instead of those stupid sugarplums dancing around. HELLO! Girl Scouts of America, we do NOT want to scare the crap out of our kids or anyone else's kids! ARE YOU INSANE? First you want to change all of our Grace songs for camp from God to "Mother Earth", and now you want to teach the little cute girls all about AIDS and body fluid swapping? Are you TRYING to bankrupt yourselves?

Insane. I hope we do it. I will make a dummy with fake blood pumping out all over the place. It will be so cool. Too bad Thinking Day is in February, not October. It's a Halloween theme this year!!!

Frankly, I think our theme should be: Antidepressants: why your leaders are so calm and how to piss them off. It works for me!!!