In Helping Others

• You get a call from a woman, you don't know, saying that she is a Girl Scout Leader and your number is all she has and would you come to the council to jump start her car, at 10 at night
• You drive to the airport, park and haul you own 4 kids and a tag inside to wait in a terribly long line to get cheap airfare to attend the National Convention. After an hour, the little girl belonging to the lady in front of you say "mommy, I have to go to the bathroom". Upon seeing the look on the lady's face, you tell her to keep her place in line and send your own children with the little girl as "buddies"
• You get phone calls from strangers who heard from a friend that you have great craft ideas...and you put dinner on hold so you can track them down
• You hear someone say "ask Sue" and you know they need to borrow something...and you have it with you (or in your car).
• The director of your service unit's day camp calls you at eleven o'clock at night on Sunday telling you that late registrations have doubled the size of day camp- from 46 to 92- and asks "Can you serve as camp councilor, and by the way your older girl would like to get some program aide hours in, wouldn't she? Camp's on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday"... And you say 'Yes' then scramble to find a sitter for your own younger child...
• A fellow leader calls you, desperate, saying that the older girl troop who was supposed to come to conduct bridging for her brownies never showed up, and you grab your older scout and arrive there within 15 minutes...