Girl Guides membership - our daughter cannot join?

Addiscomber

Person_one wrote: »

All the guide leaders on here getting very upset, please, drop the fake table thing!

I was a guide and guider for some 40 years and I have absolutely no idea what you are on about.

Person_one

Addiscomber wrote: »

I was a guide and guider for some 40 years and I have absolutely no idea what you are on about.

Read the thread and find out, it'll blow your mind.

Addiscomber

Person_one wrote: »

Read the thread and find out, it'll blow your mind.

I have read the entire thread and I am none the wiser about your obsession with an "invisible table".

Person_one

Addiscomber wrote: »

I have read the entire thread and I am none the wiser about your obsession with an "invisible table".

Well if you don't want to to read it more thoroughly I'm sorry but I'm not going to go through 12 pages to find the quote from a guide leader about the supposed importance of the invisible table! Ask a colleague or something.

dizsiebubba

Addiscomber wrote: »

I have read the entire thread and I am none the wiser about your obsession with an "invisible table".

It's a reference to dinner time on camp / pack holiday where there is no table...

In order to keep up good manners, some guiders will insist that girls do not walk across the circle while everybody is eating, as if there was a table there, you wouldn't walk across it!

I am a very young brownie guider in charge and still think it is appropriate to imagine a table is there to stop people walking through the circle at dinner time, but then I don't let the girls get up from the table and wander around at all at dinner time because I think it is bad manners!

Most of the girls actually like doing it anyway as they like to police each other and shout 'table' if somebody goes to walk across it!

shortstop

Welshwoofs wrote: »

That was a year ago though - yesterday's news is today's chip paper. A red top would print it...especially if you get a cute little kid looking sad outside a Girl's Guide venue she's excluded from.



Get your daughter to tell the leader that she's a Satanist - that should provide an amusing dilemma....it's a 'god' after all


(Disclaimer: I got kicked out of the Brownies in 2 weeks so may not be the best for advice on how to get into these groups)

Hehe that made me chuckle!


I was told I wasn't allowed to join the ventures as it was boys only, even though every other ventures group had girls. I told them I;d stay for the first meeting and if I enjoyed it I'd consider a sex change!

Addiscomber

dizsiebubba wrote: »

It's a reference to dinner time on camp / pack holiday where there is no table...

Thank you. Georgina had already explained about that in Post 123.

I have a nasty feeling that I am entering the territory of feeding a troll, but

Person_one wrote: »

I only went to one pack, for two weeks, so that's all I have experience of. ......... Both weeks we ate digestives and orange juice at an imaginary table and girls got shouted at for leaning too far over it.

so Person_one is alluding to something that happened at weekly meetings, and it seems to have exercised her greatly since she has mentioned it 3 or 4 times. I can understand not walking on the table at camp, but not being told off for leaning too far forward whilst having biscuits and squash. Of course any thinking adult would by now have recognised the invisible table as a means of trying to prevent chaos, spillage and mess .....

warehouse

Not all guide leaders are nice people, (though I'm sure 99.9% are). My DD had an awful experience with one which led to her leaving prematurely.

dizsiebubba

warehouse wrote: »

Not all guide leaders are nice people, (though I'm sure 99.9% are). My DD had an awful experience with one which led to her leaving prematurely.

Definitely - i'm a district commissioner and there are two awful ones in my district!

adouglasmhor

The guide leader in our church was a nutter, she was also the ministers daughter, one day while I was in the church hall at a scout meeting she asked the scout leader to lend her a couple of boys to help move stuff from a store cupboard to the coach for their summer camp. There was food there and one of the items was a cake - which a mouse had burrowed right through one end of (making a perfect little tunnel). I pointed it out to her - so she cut of the bit the mouse had been in and re wrapped it!
Clatty git.