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Parenting

Captain Zero

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2. My dad use to send me into the corner

Reply to doc03 (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 3, 2025, 04:34 PM

Aug 3

News stand to buy him a pack of Camels, when I was 6-7. He'd wait outside for me in the car. Hahaha.

The first time he did it I had just earned my Webelos/Bobcat? pin in Cub Scouts, which you wear upside down until you do a favor for someone. So when I came out he said, "you can turn your pin right side up now."

Now I laugh so hard thinking about it because he was probably annoyed having to take me to that Scout meeting and that was his sarcasm for Scout meetings.

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