Girl Scouts
I was in Girl Scouts for 9 years. Though quite enjoyable, I didn't really care about it (I only knew the names of about 7 girls out of about nearly 40, and 3 of them were named "Lauren").

I finished up my Scouting carrer by getting the Gold Award, which is the equivalent of the Boy Scout's Eagle Scout Award, although any Eagle scout will tell you that what the Girls do is nothing compared to what they have to go through (the Girls don't have to sit through a test/interrogation, among other trials, to prove they're worthy of the Award).

Anyway, during freshman year of college I continue to get emails from the scout troop, which I ignored. One day, someone sent a rather scathing email telling them to "stop sending me these goddamn fecking emails!" - in pastel pink letters, no less.

I used the oppertunity to "piggyback" this girl's email to send a mean-spirited letter of my own, telling the troop that I "paid my dues so stop bothering me!" amongst other angry rant-y things - in hindsight I think think it sounded like I wrote it during a drunken/high rage - and send a note of appriciation to who I thought was another anti-social ex-girl scout. I was so high on getting this off my chest that I didn't even care about the consequences of pressing the send button.

Imagine my surprise when the girl wrote back saying "I'm not in girl scouts." Apparently she just kept getting the troop's emails by mistake.

I spent a good deal of time deeply fearing that I had offended one of the leaders enough for them to take away my Award (which had been a great boost in getting me into college in the first place). Fortunately, the only thing that happened was I got taken off the Troop's mailing list, so result! as the elder and wiser b3tans say....
(Kitsune-chan I'm not a bunny I'm a grownup girl, Sat 28 May 2005, 10:46, Reply)