>>992020My dad ran our boy-scout pack/den/troop for years, starting from tiger scout in kindergarten. When I was up for a promotion up to the eagles, he quit saying that people think eagle scouts are weirdos. and that was that.
I think behind the scenes some of the ultra rightwing types got more and more control wanting to do less and less actual out doors fun stuff and more selling popcorn and weird social service stuff.
Not sure what really happened, but it turned out one of the other head honcho types was a hoarder that didn't trust the internet, so they used a computer from the 80's to do all the business stuff on. The kid was the only guy I know who played calico vision and had a comadore 64. Those controllers were super confusing. Rick Reedy was one weird kid, he always wore rainboots with no socks, all year round. Turns out that they were in some kind of weird church too, explains alot of the weird stuff they made us do as 'social service' to make us 'good men'
Now that I think about it, I was 11 when 9/11 happened, so I bet that had something to do with the weirdo faction getting more power. combined with the homo kick out and the pedo scare. Not a really great time to be a scout the early 2000's. HQ was looseing alot of money.
I hated all the fucking fundraising, popcorn, mistletoe and Almond Roca. I had no fucking clue it was at the time, but that little sale pitch chant is still stuck in my head.
Mistletoe was fun, going out the Sierra Nevadas and filling the back of a pick up truck. The profit margin was insane, me and my sister ran a second load with the scraps thrown away and made like 200 bucks. Fuck popcorn.
>my sister was in the girl scouts, but the only thing they did was sold cookies, so she defacto joined the boyscouts. We had a quite good side hustle, I was bale to buy my own n64 when I was 10 and she was rolling in the polly pockets. 
