Have no fear!

-Name change to protect the guilty, Welcome to Red’s story. Whoops, maybe Red is to close to his real name, OH WELL, I tried.

One of the most favored outings was leadership training weekends, which was held in at my family's cabin near Edgerton Wisconsin.

One Scout Red, a catholic high school student was in attendance. As part of his class, many fellow students had given persuasive speeches. As part of one student speech, he handed out props to be a little more persuasive,  obviously, this prop was persuasive to Red because he kept it and brought it to the leadership training. That prop is where the story unravels.

Red was a spirited Scout who loved to joke around, practical jokes and stupid stunts were all part Red’s Life, this one seemed to be a lot funnier to us then to him. Red grabbed his prop, a packaged condom, stands in the doorway to one of the bedrooms held up like a statue of liberty and belted out at the top of his lungs “Have no fear boys, I have protection”  Now Red expected a roar of laughter but for some reason everyone was oddly quiet, almost stunned and motionless. Red was confused until he caught out of the corner of his eye, me standing directly behind him. Red turned around slowly and saw me standing nose-to-nose with him. He was in shock about what to do next but he tucks his arm into his gut and jumps on the bed trying to hide his trophy. At this point, his face is cherry red and he doesn't know what to do next. The rest of the group was also speechless I'm quiet. I paused a moment and said, in a very monotone voice, “ I'm sure I am glad I'm not the one sleeping in the same bed with Red tonight.” At that moment the tension burst into laughter and the whole room was giggling excessively except for maybe Red, he was too embarrassed to laugh. The whole room pointed at Scott and laughed at him and he now turned red as well and denied that he was sleeping in the same bed with Red with the condom. I stood there another second or two turned around and walked away but not that far, just far enough to hear what was going to be said next. Needless to say the whole group harassed Red about his actions. I later called the whole group upstairs to begin our evening program. Red did everything he could to hide behind every other scout so he didn't have to look me in the face as he walked up the steps, but I intentionally was there to just give him the look Needless to say everyone was still in awkward laughter and more comments flew about that. I really didn't have to say much but I'm pretty sure Red understood that probably wasn't an acceptable thing to bring to a scout outing. Sometimes you don't have to yell and scream to get your point heard they hear it themselves loud and clear. I'm pretty confident that the peers in that room that night let Red know that was unacceptable and unscoutlike, that doesn't mean we didn't laugh about it many more times in our scouting times.  Have no Fear!  We were quick to remind him of his stand!