My very first Boy Scout overnight camping trip, me and two of my also 11 year old friends were sharing a tent.
Well after lights out and everything is quiet, Kevin's dad stuck his head into our tent, woke up his son, and quietly asked him,
"Did you go wee wee?"
It woke all of us up, but we didn't say anything and pretended we were still asleep. Kevin angrily told his dad that, yes he did, and to get out of our tent!
The next night, and for several camping trips to follow, me and my friend always teased Kevin,
"Make sure you go wee wee!" and after, once in the tent, "You did you go wee wee, didn't you?"
Poor Kevin, not only was he embarrassed, but other Scouts heard about it, and Kevin got the nickname "Wee Wee" from that point forward.
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It was really thoughtless of that father to ask such a question in front of other boys. The only way I can halfway justify such a humiliating conversation is if Kevin had a bed-wetting problem and needed to urinate as much as possible before going to sleep. Even then his father should have called Keven out of the tent and spoken to him in private. Any way you look at it, the father was inconsiderate of his son.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he was totally inconsiderate because the way I read this the father had reason to believe that the other boys were asleep.
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