A scout is....

I recently got back from a very eventful scout camp, and my family was debriefing me on the camp happenings. I commented that sometimes the scouts didn't embody some elements of the scout law and Michelle looked perplexed. I began to quote the law: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous..." As I got to "courteous", Michelle started to giggle. I continued, "kind, obedient...", and here the fits of laughter began. When I got to "clean" she was hysterical, and when I finished with "reverent" she was laughing so hard that she was silent because she lost her wind, and was just shaking convulsively - then she broke into sobs of hysteric laughter. By that time we were all laughing so hard that some of us were crying. I guess that might have been an editorial comment on her expectations of boys her age.