Scouts

excerpt from the working draft of Memoirs of an Artist: My Life in

Transition, penned 2014.
Written works by Charles Brnell !2014
" ha#e heard and seen many positi#e and negati#e stereotypes abot boy scots and girl
scots. When " was in middle school, if yo were in the scots it meant yo were some
kind of goody-goody, like a teachers pet, or a straight$% stdent who ne#er got in troble
for anything. "t was commonly accepted within my peer grop as a negati#e thing. &o "
ne#er told them that " had been in the 'irl &cots in third grade.
(he trth of the matter, was " )oined the scot becase " wanted the girls to like me. "
didn*t know why " wanted them to like me. +egardless, it was somehow important to me
at the time. ,y father was spporti#e. -e let me sign p, and sent des with me e#ery
week, to pay at the after school meetings. When " )oined the grop, " felt ot of place
right away. " didn*t ha#e anything in common with any of the girls in there. (he
acti#ities were boring to me. " didn*t really see why the girls were so interested. " think
mostly they )st sat arond and clcked like little baby hens, that were practicing for the
hen hose when they got bigger. " did not like it.
" contined to go for a little while. " stayed in long enogh to get to sell cookies. " liked
that part becase my father took my order sheet with him to work and many of his
coworkers boght cookies from him. (hen, when " trned in the order sheet, " cold
actally be somewhat competiti#e with the girls in the grop. " think " probably stck
arond a little longer. +eally, " was more interested in the girls than the girl scots, and it
wasn*t getting me anywhere. &o " kept taking the des from my dad, and stopped going
to the meetings. .#entally, " got caght. " got in troble. %nd my father stopped gi#ing
me the money e#ery week.