Tweet
As some of you may remember, I am an employee of a Dungeons and Dragons camp. That means that, in essence, I play D&D with 4-8th graders for money. This is quite an enjoyable job. However, every job has its problems.
A couple highlights (or should I say lowlights) of the last couple days.
I wear a rather fancy fedora. I'm quite proud of it. During lunch, a small child stole this fedora, smacked me, smacked fellow college-aged assistant, who I shall call Navy*, and shoved my co-DM (who I shall call Twilight Sparkle**) into the ground (we were all sitting down.)
While none of us was in any way menaced by this small child, (My co-DM, is the smallest of the three of us and is still about twice the girl's size, she was just kind of surprised) this behavior seemed, well, extremely unacceptable.
The other behavior, from earlier today, was on the part of one of my fellow assistants (one of the highschool-aged ones) who I will call King*** smacked one of my players with a nerf sword. This guy is supposed to be in CHARGE, and setting an EXAMPLE. Not fighting with/throwing things at the students.
The other frustrating kiddlywink is the one who was getting smacked/throwing things at Henry. Last year he bought a knife to camp. This year he keeps trying to tell racist jokes (he assures us this is okay, because he knows black people.)
At least the racist joke-teller is a bit under control. He clearly has a crush on Twilight Sparkle (they're the same age, he's just been held back. So one grade difference, no age difference, not THAT creepy)
I just wanted to rant about this. On account of how frustrating it is.I love the camp, I really do. And a lot of these things are just the facts of dealing with children at a summer camp. Doesn't mean they're FUN, though. (Also, King should REALLY know better)
*He's going to join the navy
**She LARPS as Twilight.
***Same name as a royal king
A couple highlights (or should I say lowlights) of the last couple days.
I wear a rather fancy fedora. I'm quite proud of it. During lunch, a small child stole this fedora, smacked me, smacked fellow college-aged assistant, who I shall call Navy*, and shoved my co-DM (who I shall call Twilight Sparkle**) into the ground (we were all sitting down.)
While none of us was in any way menaced by this small child, (My co-DM, is the smallest of the three of us and is still about twice the girl's size, she was just kind of surprised) this behavior seemed, well, extremely unacceptable.
The other behavior, from earlier today, was on the part of one of my fellow assistants (one of the highschool-aged ones) who I will call King*** smacked one of my players with a nerf sword. This guy is supposed to be in CHARGE, and setting an EXAMPLE. Not fighting with/throwing things at the students.
The other frustrating kiddlywink is the one who was getting smacked/throwing things at Henry. Last year he bought a knife to camp. This year he keeps trying to tell racist jokes (he assures us this is okay, because he knows black people.)
At least the racist joke-teller is a bit under control. He clearly has a crush on Twilight Sparkle (they're the same age, he's just been held back. So one grade difference, no age difference, not THAT creepy)
I just wanted to rant about this. On account of how frustrating it is.I love the camp, I really do. And a lot of these things are just the facts of dealing with children at a summer camp. Doesn't mean they're FUN, though. (Also, King should REALLY know better)
*He's going to join the navy
**She LARPS as Twilight.
***Same name as a royal king
I write, my friend Red draws. Comments welcome. Leave them on their, or on my profile here. 
Comment