Once a week, this mild-mannered suburban mom morphs into Mrs. Cubmaster. 
I'm not an official Cub Scout leader, but I do help out quite a bit with the Cub Pack that my husband leads (and my youngest is a part of).
Sometimes, my job involves crowd control or directing traffic, as there are four different groups of boys meeting in four different rooms. Sometimes I organize a uniform exchange, and I've also sorted out awards the boys have earned to get ready for the awards ceremonies.
But most often, my job as Mrs. Cubmaster involves running errands. My husband works 50 miles from home, so he doesn't have the opportunity to do Scout-related errands on his lunch hour or even on his way to work. So I'm often the one who runs to the Scout store to get badges and pins, or to the toy store in search of enough marbles for 15 boys to play the game.
Last week my errand involved making copies--lots of copies. As it was last-minute, I headed out to the local office-supply store, where I fought with the self-service copy machine for a while for the privilege of paying 7 cents per copy. Just as I finished the job and fought with another machine so I could get a receipt for the copies, I saw a big sign on the wall: order your copies online--only 4 cents per copy! That's almost half the price, and I wouldn't have had to figure out how to work the machine.
I let my husband know that next time, he'd be planning ahead. We could have saved the Scouts some money, and there would have been much less aggravation for Mrs. Cubmaster. That's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
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