Forty Phrases every Scoutmaster should know:
- “Ask your patrol leader.”
- “Well, ask him again.”
- “Well then, ask your senior patrol leader.”
- “I don’t know.”
- “Where’s your buddy?”
- “Who is your buddy?”
- “Do you do that at home?”
- “We don’t do that here.”
- “Stop!”
- “Go!”
- “What happens next?”
- “Why?”
- “Does that belong to you?”
- “Checking my eyelids for leaks. Why? What are doing?”
- “You can do it!”
- “Don’t do that.”
- “Are you sure you do that at home?”
- “Over there.”
- “Over here.”
- “It is not here.”
- “I am not the quartermaster.”
- “I am not the scribe.”
- “I am not the committee chairman”
- “I am not… okay your get the idea.”
- “Because.”
- “I don’t answer those questions.”
- “It’s not stolen, it’s lost.”
- “Here it is, right where somebody left it.”
- “What did you expect would happen?”
- “So, that’s what happens.”
- “Perhaps it will go better next time.”
- “It may have been wiser not to do that in the first place.”
- “It may have been wiser to do that in the first place.”
- “You did what?”
- “Find something else to do.”
- “That’s funny.”
- “That’s not funny.”
- “When did that happen?”
- “How did that happen?”
- “Let’s not have that happen again.”