It Was Sweet

A long time ago I was a Blue Bird.

Blue Birds were Camp Fire Girls in Training,- I never made it through Blue Birds and I never even got close to being a Camp Fire Girl.

The biggest problem I had was that I could never earn those badges- in order to earn those you had to do things like cook or sew and to be honest not only was  I not inclined to do any of those things when I did do them I was bound to warp the directions and end up with some Frankenstein’s Monster of a mess that would stick to the bottom of the brown paper  bag that I’d carry my project to our group meeting in.

My Grandpa asked why on Earth I insisted on coughing up 50 cents for dues to sit around with a bunch of little Blue Birds who had made it clear to him on several occasions when he dropped me off at the meetings, that they were convinced I was showing up because my only purpose in life was to try to’ruin’ their group and he had told them that didn’t sound like his Anita Marie at all.

” Anita doesn’t have to try and ruin anything” He told them. “ She’s got that down to a science.”  

 Well. One day our troup put on a talent show. One little group of girls lip synched and acted out this song called Snoopy Vs. The Bloody Red Baron.

I got a tambourine and learned to sing a song all on my own.

I practiced it, I worked on it, to this day my nearest and dearest who remember me and that song get this twitch on the left sides of their faces when they hear it.

When I was done performing my ‘talent’ my Blue Bird leader’s daughter grabbed my tambourine out of my hand and hit me with it. I mean, she took that thing and bashed me in the head with it so hard I saw stars-  and then she started screaming about how I always wrecked everything.

Years later I was a working musician and I saw her at a club- she pretended like she didn’t know me. But when I was playing my guitar up on stage don’t think for a second that  I turned my back on her.

So here’s the song that got me kicked out of Blue Birds,  banned from Campfire Girls and if she dies before me I am going to show up at her grave and sing this- just for her.

Oh why wait.

::::Marj- this one is for you:::

Inspired By

The SFC Chocolate Box Prompt:

Self Portraiture

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