How to Become a Happy Camper
You’ll need a derby hat, shorts, and brown boots…
The other day I went to my local health food store and asked the clerk for a pill that would make me not want to” lash out irrationally”.
She just looked at me blankly then proceeded to walk across the length of the store, weaving in and out of the aisles, until she stopped in front of a shelf containing various holistic mood elevators/suppressors.
She picked up a bottle from the shelf and held it up to me. “It’s Happy Camper,” she said matter of factually.
Then she put the bottle back down and walked away.
I guess she felt her job was done.
Happy Camper??
The fix to all of my problems was to become a “Happy Camper”?
I pondered this thought, realizing I couldn’t deny that ever since I was a little kid, at summer camp, I had always wanted to be a “Happy Camper”.
It seemed to be such an elusive beast.
Memories of my childhood were peppered with pointed comments from the adults in my life, “Looks like someone isn’t a happy camper”.
Well, it looked like someone had finally come up with a solution for the lack of happy campers — which was groundbreaking news!
Why hadn’t I heard about this before?
Shouldn’t this be a headline running across the ticker tape on CNN?
Breaking News….Happy Camper pills now available for the masses…limit one container per family to prevent shortages.
I mean this is what’s been missing in our society — Happy Campers!
They should be putting this stuff in our drinking water.
After the initial excitement wore off I picked up the bottle of Happy Camper to get a closer look.
The jar was bright yellow (my favorite color, another good sign) with a little cartoon camper guy on the front. He…
