archies '05, group 1

Let's see... where do I begin? Should I begin this entry by bringing last year's tragic archies to everyone's attention, or should I talk about my life as a high schooler, or should I just dive into their tragicness with no preface at all. Hmm... I shall do all three.

Every year at camp, there are a group of students who come to participate in the Architecture enrichment program here at camp. Like clockwork, they come, they act as if they are too grown, show out, walk around with dookie-looks, and then leave with impressive, yet disheartening architectual models (disheartening only because they are SO incredibly good, so all the negative things that they do and you think are basically null and void by the end of the week).

Last week, the first group of archies were overrun by a plethora of "Mean Girls." There is no other term to call them except that. They dressed really well, treated other people like crap, and were way too dramatic. The second group last year was full of pseudo-fratty pubescent boys with hormones excreting from their pores. Both groups last year were pretty bad...

But neither of those groups were as dumb and disappointing as the group here this week. Dumb just because... they were, and disappointing because all the bad things they did and I think about them are moot because their models were better than both groups last year.

Instead of just narrating through all of their dumb moments, I'm just going to tell you a few of them...
-planning on walking to the lake by themselves
-thinking they deserved to be driven everywhere
-walking around on different halls AFTER curfew
-lying and pretending to be sick, only to sit at the dorm and do laundry
-pushing each other into random college students while walking to class
-asking to go to Lee Hall to work on their projects at 10:30 pm
-putting one of my campers in the air and having him body surf at the dance
-thinking they were special and then BRAGGING about it

I think that's about it... they really grated my nerves for the whole 2 weeks they were here. Thank God they go home tomorrow. I just hope to God that I wasn't that intolerable when I was in high school. I mean, most of them are rising juniors and seniors... if I had acted like them, I think I would have been made fun of... and quite frankly, the kids that did act like them at my high school WERE made fun of. How dare they claim the right to be sadiddy?

Now, I will give them the fact that they had bad ass models. They were big, detailed, creative, and EXTREMELY impressive... it so sucks... 'cause I didn't want to have to give them their props... but I have to give honor where honor is due. They were good. So... their stupidity only travels as far as to the classroom door. When it comes to applying themselves as aspiring architects, they are far from dumb.

...they still irk me though. Ugh.

the trash "shut"

This note was posted above the trash chute on the 3rd floor of Lever Hall. Katy brought this to the attention of the counselors. This is serious. This is NOT made up. I am typing it with the same punctuation (or lack thereof) and capitalization.

Quit Trying To Throw Trash down The shut (-tle was written but scribbled out) when it is Fold sit The trash down in side here it we be threw away later and please close The shut door so Trash wont go everywhere my door done torn up already They Just put This brand new door on last year iF This Keep happen This door will stay lock like They use to which would be better any how To much of her other stuff being throw dowN the shut Thank you

Ew.

I was going to rewrite this the correct way, but just typing it like this made my brain hurt. All of a sudden, I feel the need to digest a grammar book.

daddy dearest

Well... I have had to discuss mothers a couple of times here in dumb pe0ple, but I haven't ever had to discuss the stupidty of a father... until today.

One of the campers this week was here with his sister. His sister found a boy that she liked a little bit. Turned out that the boy liked her too. The brother didn't really like that... so, he called his dad and told him that there was a dude all up on his sister...

The boy is not really dumb... if anything, he just needs to get over the fact that his sister is going to talk to boys regardless of whether he likes it or not.

The DAD on the other hand is probably one of the most sorry excuses for a parent I have ever met in my life.

So when the dad came up to camp (first no-no), he approached his daughter's friend boy (second no-no) and told him not to put his hands on his daughter. Then there was some dialogue and confrontations that I am not really certain about, but the next thing I saw was the man's son start arguing and raising up to the other boy. All the while, the dad is standing right there just being a waste of a life. The other boy really didn't do anything. He was backing up and even said to the dad, "You are a grown man! Why are you getting involved in all of this?!" The next thing I know, the son is swinging at the boy and Nick is the only person keeping the two of them from going at it. THE DAD IS BEING COMPLETELY USELESS. He is standing there right smack dab in the middle of the mess, and all he is doing is watching. I walked away a minute to get a good look at everything. I didn't want to get all up in it mainly because my first reaction was, "Geez, this is this man's son, and I don't think I want to put my hands on him in front if him?!" But then when it started getting REAL serious and the boy took his lanyard off and started swinging it (with the key on the end) through the crowd at the boy! Once more, the dad has done nothing. It wasn't until I stepped in and pulled the boy away that his dad said, "Don't show out."

Well, excuse me, you dumb dad, your son has already embarrassed you, your daughter, AND himself. He has taken the "show out" train and ridden it all over the place. Maybe if you had actually given your son some sufficient home training, he wouldn't have "shown out." If it had been my son, the fight would have been between me and him. I wouldn't dare let my offspring act out in front of an entire camp like that.

People like that dumb father really shouldn't be allowed to procreate. No Father's Day for him...