Crossover Funnies

Eric and Kyle met me at the cub scout crossover ceremony to welcome our newest scout to the troop. After I made all the proper introductions, I decided now would be a good time to hike back to my car which was parked in a random campsite down the road and get my jacket and chair.

Eric: Mr. Troy! You missed it!

Troy: That figures. What did I miss?

Eric: There was a rope from the tree to the fire pit and they shot a flaming towel down to light it.

Troy: That sounds really cool. Ah well. I’ll just set up my chair and be comfortable.

Less than a minute later I had to stand up because our scout was the first to cross over.

Eric mentioned to me that he really liked the cup holder on the 5 gallon cooler. It had MacDonald's cups in it. After the crossover ceremony while we were standing around the fire waiting on the food to be served, Eric decided he was going to go over and look at it. Meanwhile I was talking to the kid tending the fire and found out that it was his cooler and cup holder.

Troy: Eric, this is the guy who owns the cup holder.

Eric: Really? It it for sale?

Scout: Yeah, I’ll give you $50 for it.

Eric: OK! $50 please.

Troy: LOL I think you meant to say you’ll take $50 for it.

Scout: Oh yeah.

Troy: You gotta be careful about that. Especially around Eric.

Eric: It would’ve worked if you hadn’t explained it to him!

First, I don’t think it would’ve worked. Second, Eric didn’t even offer me half to keep my mouth shut.

After the crossover I had to take Kyle to meet his mother at Burger King. On the way back to the car Kyle crushed the soda can he’d been drinking out of.

Troy: Why did you bring that with you?

Kyle: Because it still had drink in it.

Troy: Drink that’s now going to drip all over my car? I don’t think so. Throw it away. Is there a trash can around here? [The campsite in which I parked was far away from where we knew there was a trash can.]

Kyle: [After looking around] No.

Troy: I’ll drive you back to the campsite and you can throw it away. Just make sure it drips on you and not on my car.

Kyle: Oh that’s nice.

Troy: What? You are easier to clean than my car is.

Kyle: You know this is a one-way street right?

Troy: Oh yeah. I’m glad you said something before I started driving that way! LOL Well as we drive out look for a trash can.

As we were driving back to the gate we called his mother to tell her that we were navigating our way out of the park. Kyle spotted a trash can so I stopped, he jumped out and threw the can away. We then drove up to the gate.

Troy: Well we may be a little late… the gate is locked and they didn’t give us the combination. Kyle, go make sure the gate is really locked and it doesn’t just look like it’s locked.

Kyle’s mom: I think I have the number for the cub scout leaders. Hang on and I will call them and find out what the code is.

Troy: OK

Kyle reported that the gate was indeed locked. As we sat there we saw a car approaching the gate from the other side.

Troy: I hope that’s a camper that knows the gate combo, that way we can escape when they come in.

It turned out to be the ranger. He told us he’d lock the gate back after we left.

Kyle’s mom: I got hold of them.

Troy: Actually, the ranger just showed up and opened the gate for us. We’re on our way.

Kyle’s mom: OK, see you soon.

Troy: Kyle, what was the gate combo?

Kyle: 1 2 3 4

Troy: What?! You didn’t try 1 2 3 4? Sounds like the combination an idiot would have on his luggage! You should always try the obvious things first. Like when you don’t know a password you should just try “password”. You’d be amazed how many times that works.