The tent walls are thin!
So one of the things that we would do when we said lights out, is we would go around maybe 15 minutes after the time and make sure everyone was quiet. Depending on the day, it might be 1 or 2 people or a whole patrol that was still up chatting and we would tell them to quiet down and get to bed. It was out of courtesy of not only our group but others in the camp too. Sometimes you hear funny things, this is a story of just one of those.
So I didn’t announce I was coming into the site because after all, I wanted to address this only to those who were awake and not awaken those that had just fallen asleep. I went into one site and stood there to determine which tents were still chatting. Standing there, I heard a discussion and just listed for a bit. The story went like this.
Blue: Red, do you think my butt is cute?
Red: shut up Blue
Blue: Red, no one ever tells me my butt is cute, do you think my butt is cute Red? (in a somewhat whiny voice, it was apparent he was trying to annoy Red.
Red: Blue shut up and go to bed, sure your butt is cute, whatever.
At that point, I said, it’s time to get to sleep, quiet down, and get to sleep, I waited to see if they started back up, and they did.
Blue, how long was he out there?
Red: I don’t know.
Blue: Red, do you believe in Jesus?
Red: Shut up and go to sleep
Blue continues to nag at red…
Then with a deep voice, I bellowed out, “ Jesus wants you two to get your cute butts to sleep”
It was silent, and I left. But not without a lot of internal laughter, I told the story back at our site and we laughed. Kids say the darnest things.
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