Tales from WannaBea Farm

Joyce Stark “Run, Kyle, run", I heard boys screaming, along with others yelling, "Go Danny, you can do it". They were neck and neck when they crossed the finish line.

We had taken our Cub Scout Pack on an outing to a county park where we had a huge picnic with the boys cooking their foil wrapped entrees over the fire and the mothers furnishing the rest of the goodies. Everybody was having a great time, the boys had all tried their hand at fishing and some had even caught a few and after showing them off and bragging about their prowess they released them. They were getting pretty wound up and rambunctious and had started picking at me.

Now back then I was pretty scrawny and even wore the Cub Scout uniform as the Den Mother uniform was way too big. Aaah, those were the days. SIGH. Anyway, those boys thought it was just so funny that most of them were bigger than me and loved to tell each other short jokes after making sure that I was in hearing range. They were on a short joke spree now and even had bystanders laughing and chiming in with jokes of their own so I put a stop to that and started the games. I would wear them out and they'd be too tired to tell jokes on the way home.

My Den would win one contest then Audie's Den would win the next one or we would tie. The other Dens couldn't come near us and the competition was getting fiercer by the minute, with the boys all yelling and taunting each other. They had even drawn a small crowd of bystanders that were watching

the games and rooting for their favorite team.

Whoever won would gain possession of the Pack flag for the following month and of course the winners would just lord it over the other dens.

Even though my Den and Audie’s competed with all the other Dens, we were mostly in competition with each other. But after all the games were over this day we were still tied, even after a couple of extra games. Everybody stood around trying to decide who would get the flag when Audie looked at me and said, "I'll flip you for it”.

Dumb ole me said, "Okay".

The next thing I knew, she had grabbed me and flipped me completely over the picnic table!

Stunned, I just sat there on the ground, listening to everybody’s laughter, trying to figure out just what on earth had happened. Then, when it dawned on me, I couldn’t help but laugh too.

Audie won!

We can flip a coin if you want, but never again will I fall for "I'll flip YOU for it".