I've Got Twin Lobsters
The girls got to their positions at the hotdog stand half an hour early on Sunday. Of course, when we dropped them off they were fighting over who would carry what. Instead of one of them carrying the two bags with the small cupcakes and another taking the big box with the banana cake, both of them took a bag with J laughingly leaving her sister to take the box as well. Of course, with it being H, this did not go down well. She cursed, she shouted, she hissed and begrudgingly took the cake box out with her and upon catching up with her sister, dumped it, rather unceremoniously on the grass and stormed off. Ah, again, the joy of twins.
They were only due to be there for two hours and eventually came home seven and a half hours later, absolutely shattered and with sunburnt faces. They'd enjoyed some parts of the day but felt that as they'd stayed on for over five hours more than was required of them and helped take things back to the scout hut that maybe they could have been thanked a bit more. J was actually quite upset that when she pointed out that someone was mistakenly filling up my cake box with the cub's plastic cups that she felt as if they were accusing her of trying to gain a free box. When the cub's missing cup box was found she didn't get an apology and my children are really keen on things being balanced and she said so. That didn't go down too well. There were a few other things that upset them, but they felt the good parts were good experience and H's banana layer cake sold for £5.
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I think KT and I feel a little bit like sometimes the leaders forget about just who supports each of the things they do. It isn't a huge troop but whenever the scouts are all supposed to attend an event it's always the same few that do with occasionally one or two of the others and it's almost as if because of that, the ones that do attend are expected to do more to make up for the ones that don't bother.
We've told the girls now that they don't stay past their time slot when bag packing any more because the last few times they were there for more than twice as long and weren't allowed breaks, not even for drinks. The shop they were doing it in gets a lot of sun and is hot by the tills so a drink break once or twice in the time they were there was deserved.
As long as they attend events for whichever time slot they have agreed to, then there should be no problem, but we feel that if other children aren't expected to bother, then doing the amount asked for and then going home should be allowed.
It's a life lesson learnt early. There will always be people who don't do what they are supposed to and everyone else has to pick up the pieces. It's hard to put up with this but the bosses either don't want to know or else you feel you can't say anything because it would make you a grass.
As KT says, as long as the ones who turn up get recognition for doing so when it matters, then they are happy - it's just at the time, they do feel like there is extra pressure on them and no repercussions for the others.