In Being Prepared

• You carry extra garbage bags in your car, just in case
• Every time you talk to your co-leader your conversation always turns to "Next year we should..." or "I thought of a great idea for next year!"
• You go through magazines like "Family Fun" and collect all the ideas that would be terrific for your girls (and yes, my troop is "my girls!")
• You make extra permission slips up for girls that will lose theirs, then save any unused ones to white-out the old trip information and to fill in again for the next trip, so as not to waste paper
• You save every single paper and every report from the Girl Scout board meetings and committees for the last six years, just in case you should need it, or if the office needs a copy of something when the council performance review rolls around.
• Everyone always asks you if you have a ..... (and you do, or can find it)
• You're planning calendar has ALL the Girl Scout/Guide events entered in it (for the next 3-6 months) but not the business meeting tomorrow
• It takes a couple of hours to answer when your friends ask you to help come up with an outdoor cooking recipe for the "ladies only" camping trip as you have to have to run through all of your files!
• Neighborhood children come to your house all summer long asking "Got any gimp?" and you always do.
• Co-workers ask if you've got: an aspirin, a needle and thread, a safety pin...and you always do!
• When the family picnic gets rain out and all adults look at you when the children start running crazy...(or any holiday for that matter..)