Slim Jim was a little wound up at the Pilot House\u2019s happy hour. Course, it was two hours PAST the happy one and Jim was paying full price for 16 oz.\u2019s of bitterness and I don\u2019t mean IPA\u2019s. \u201cI\u2019m pulling Little Jimmy out of the Scouts,\u201d he was hollering to Two Toke Tom, Guitar Bob and me at the adjoining table. \u201cBefore you know it, they\u2019ll have Sodomy as a merit badge. I mean, Jeez, where does this end? I tell you what, I\u2019ve had it up to here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Up to here evidently was his pie hole where he was now pouring down his 4th pint. Guitar Bob\u2019s kid Billy was a member of the South End Troop 17 sponsored by the Little Chapel in the Ravine. The Little Chapel had considered pulling out after the Scouts decided the time had come to accept gays, but the deacons couldn\u2019t reach a decision without tearing the membership apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gonna let Billy stay in?\u201d Jim asked Bob. \u201cYou aren\u2019t worried he\u2019ll end up some limp wrist with all the perverts we got these days. What kind of father \u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bob held up a hand in a stop sign. \u201cSettle down, Jim. It isn\u2019t the end of manhood as we know it. It\u2019s the same troop. You know all these kids. And Phil\u2019s a good scoutmaster. What the hell are you cranking yourself up for?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly crap, Bob,\u201d Jim spluttered, half rising from his seat. \u201cThese are our kids\u2019 lives, ya know? We didn\u2019t send them to Boy Scouts to earn Fairy Badges, we expected them to learn how to use knives and hatchets. The way we did, remember?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBilly just got his computer merit badge, Jim. I don\u2019t care if he learns how to chop wood in the 21st century. We\u2019re not Cro Magnons. No offense, Skeeter,\u201d he grinned, looking my way.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe like fire. Me cut wood,\u201d I grunted. So did Jim. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with the damn Scouts. They don\u2019t care about teaching Manhood. They\u2019re all a bunch of pansies, you ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t,\u201d Two Toke said. <\/p>\n
\u201cLook who\u2019s talking,\u201d Jim grumbled, \u201ca guy who never had a kid, probably couldn\u2019t if he wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom, instead of taking offense, just laughed. \u201cIf I\u2019d known I could get sex-ed in Boy Scouts, I\u2019d\u2019ve joined. But isn\u2019t that what you\u2019re worried about?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim snorted in disgust, swilled down his half full glass and got up to leave. On his way to the door he turned back to us. \u201cYou three faggots are exactly what\u2019s wrong with this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two Toke shook his head sadly, but Guitar Bob laughed. \u201cLove you, man,\u201d he said for all the bar to hear before throwing him a kiss. Love on the South End comes in many disguises\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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