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Penny Arcade - Comic - Dumber Camp, Part One
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Dumber Camp, Part One
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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This is gonna be one of those weird Penny Arcade arcs I can't relate to, isn't it.
He's going to orate for the sake of oration.
Camps for adults are much better though. We go out into the desert, drink beer and shoot guns, as well as drive jeeps over various things.
yo this sounds dope as hell
We told him many times he was heading for a rock. He said we were not. He was wrong.
The rock punctured the boat, and it began to sink. We made it back to shore, but the boat was now useless.
When the last day finally came, there weren't enough boats to take everyone back at the same time. Rather than making multiple trips in boats, the counselors deciding we would hike to a ferry station and head home from there. Along the road, in the heat, with the mosquitos, with all our stuff in backpacks. A trip that took 15 minutes by boat took 2 hours by foot.
I hated summer camp.
I do take some solace in that while yes it was horrible, it didn't sour me on race relations as I grew up. And even then it didn't 'feel' racial, it was largely cultural; it didn't get really bad until they had learned I wasn't from the city like the other kids. (Unfortunately that was pretty much right away lol)
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Had horses, a lake, all that kinda shit. More tears from injuries than from bullies since it was a religious camp, but there were a few.
"Best" memory was a kid lifting up the log from a wasp nest, ending up with many kids at the nurse and where I saw a counselor dive off the side of a steep hill into rough brush rather than face the stingers.
I know it isn't, but I also never knew I actually wanted that to happen so bad.
I was sent to church camp, which is basically Bible time in the woods. They too have bullies though, and nerds. Guess which one I was. I learned skills such as "hiding under my bed", and "trading snacks to avoid beatings".
I remember my brand new swimsuit being too big for me, and you can imagine how that turned out.
As well as the week-long camp in the summer we had weekend camps for more specific activities to get badges, like Camp Cook or Naturalist. In order to get my Survival Skills badge I stayed overnight in a leaky bivouac and cooked an inadequate meal over a terrible camp fire (I didn't get how to properly get a fire going until I was 27 when I wasn't going to get penalised for using a fire lighter). There was an annual competition for camping, where you got marked on how well you could pitch a D4, presentation of your camp ground, how well you could cook over half an oil drum filled with wood you'd collected yourself, that sort of thing.
They already did one.
...No?
It's just adults doing fun things because they are fun.
It seems like you just wanted to gripe about how much you don't like "safe spaces". I mean, where else would you even get this idea? It's like those people who bring up politics in a story about a dog that's best friends with a squirrel.
Well maybe if the dogs would ever lower acorn taxes the squirrels wouldn't have to hoard them and some of those nuts could be repatriated.
Looking back I realize I saved myself from an even more negative experience. I wasn't great at talking to people or making friends back then. I would have spent that summer feeling lonely and having to deal with being made fun of for being chubby. Instead I got to spend it with my big sister. At the time I acted annoyed about it but I realize now she's the best friend I've ever had.
Edit: Y'know...it was pretty dicked of them to make a little kid go back home when all my aunt had to do was sign the slip. I suddenly realize my aunt who has always worried about me too much may have used it as an excuse to bring me back home where I'd be safe. It had taken a ton of convincing and whining to even get her to let me go in the first place. Kinda shaking my head at that. Ah, well.
Then I twisted my ankle on the steps up to the cabins. We did get to go to a water park down the road though and ride a jet ski on the lake so it wasn't all bad. But otherwise would preferred to stayed home.
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