Grrrr.
There's this one thing about my job that bothers me more than anything, its not being able to tell ghost stories. Now don't get me wrong I love the job but not telling ghost stories at a sleep away camp, come on! Telling ghost stories is one of the iconic images of camp, it one of those things that all children at camp should experience, it builds character. I mean think about it when someone asks you to think of camp, what are some of the things that come to mind? Camp fires, songs around the camp fire, hiking, roasting marshmallows, TELLING GHOST STORIES AROUND THE FIRE,making friends, and swiming. Its a part of what it means to go to camp, any older person when you ask them what camp was like most of them will mention telling ghost stories. When I was in 6th grade and having a sleepover at my camp, the counslors took us into the woods and we had a camp fire and they told us a ghost story about a phantom car with a guy who would drive around and kill people, when we were heading back we were acting all macho and acting like we weren't scared, then we heard an engine start up and we saw headlights and then a car came squealling towards us scaring the shit out of us, later we found out it was one of the counslors but it was a really good camp memory. It was something that I look back on and laugh, cause we all had fun before and after it. Its just really stupid that we can't tell them even to the older kids who can rationally think about the stories and realize that that's all they are stories. It jsut bothers me that children today are missing out on something that has been a part of the camp experience for generations