Hello, dear readers. Today is 20sb Blog Swap day. Members of the lovely 20 Something Bloggers community have gotten together to write posts and trade blogs for the day. The assignment was to write about our favorite childhood summer vacation but I’ve never been good at reading the instructions and just thought we were writing about vacations, in a general sense. Oops. I lucked out in the random draw and got paired with Lacey of Perks of Being a JAP. You can find my diaster-childhood-vacation story over at her blog.

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Hello Sweeney Says readers! I’m Lacey, taking over Nicole’s blog for the 20sb blog swap today. When we were asked to write about our childhood vacations, I kind of drew a blank. Yeah, I went on vacations with my family when I was younger, and traveled to visit family, but I knew if I was on Sweeney’s blog, I needed a good story. And if it’s not amusing, at least it’s got a good moral at the end.

I went to sleepaway camp for eight awesome summers. It was a Jewish camp, and I definitely faked my through the sabbath prayers (since I’m really Jew”ish”), but that’s neither here nor there. I’m going to talk about the raid my bunk did on boys side that got us in trouble.

First of all, we wouldn’t have gotten caught if the boys weren’t dumb as bricks. Second, we were all of 14 and kind of dumb ourselves. Anywho, we decide we’re going to raid boys side on this one night. We had done it before without getting caught (due to our super stealthy sneaking around skills) and for whatever reason, I was always the leader of these things. I have no idea why, because I can’t find my way out of a paper bag, let alone across dark campgrounds, but I led the troops.

We waited until the counselor-on-duty had left the post for the night and booked it across camp. To give you an idea our path, here is a cartoon map of our camp that I conveniently found online:

Totally to scale, obvs. So the neon green line is our path from our bunk to the boys side. This was the longer, but smarter way to go, since it went by the lake and there were no lights (also making it more dangerous but whatever) and it was more secluded than the main camp roads. That big, black arrow? That’s the GIANT OPEN FIELD that we had to run across like Olympic sprinters to get to the part of boys side where our friend’s bunks were.

We finally get to the boys tents and what did we do? Hang out with them. It’s not like we covered their beds in toilet paper or honey or whatever those kids in movies do. We didn’t even have make-out parties or whatever those kids in THOSE movies do. We just sat and chatted like we would do normally. TOTALLY WORTH IT RIGHT? Right. Everything was all copacetic when we left. We were quiet, no one saw us and we made it back to our beds with no one being the wiser.

EXCEPT FOR THE TWO IDIOT BOYS WHO DECIDED TO FOLLOW US BACK TO GIRLS SIDE. Yes, that’s right, after our mission was completed with a 100% success rate, these two morons who no one really liked followed us back and made so much noise that a counselor heard them and yelled out to them, demanding to know who they were. I believe the conversation went something like this,:

Counselor: “What are your names?!”
Idiot: “DEEES NUTSSSSSS!’

Yeah. Special.

To round off a long-winded story, they got caught (morons) and ratted us out with them (jerks). The next morning our unit leader cornered us at flagpole and asked us if we had told the boys to come over to girls side that night. We all answered no, because that’s not what happened. We originally thought we were in the clear, but then for one reason or another the truth came out that we had raided boys side first. When the unit leader came up to us again and confirmed that this is what happened, she looked at us and said, “When I asked you before about the raid, why did you lie to me?” I looked her square in the face and replied, “We didn’t lie.” She insisted that she we had lied when she asked earlier and I told her that we didn’t lie, because she asked if we told the boys to raid us, and that was a different question.

Moral of the story:
Boys are stupid.
We still got in trouble.
and never answer the wrong questions. 🙂