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For a long time I was a group leader at our scouts troop, at that time for the age group of 13 to 16 years (myself being like 28 at that time). This happened on our summer camp. We had small rituals for morning and evening, just something to get the group together and starting/ending the day with everyone. As I have enough creativity to write decent short stories and the overall theme of the camp being knights and castles, I wrote a short story about the knight Kunibert, who accounts to the reader about how he slayed a dragon and rescued a maiden from it. So, what does a dragon have? Big teeth, fire breath, sharp claws,... and of course a horned tail. So I also wrote about the horned tail. But in german the word for tail is also slang for penis. While writing I really wasn't aware how it sounded. Until I read the story to the kids.

That was a bit weird, but also fun. Next day we let the kids write the next episode of the story. They included Kunibert putting his "big horny tail" on the table at the castle, trying to brag with its size, despite it starting to stink horribly, since he didn't clean it before.

My dad was in a conversation that turned to talking about peas (for some reason), and the quality of something being pea like, and called it pea-ness. We only noticed when he paused, and said 'no, not like that!'

In the part of Australia I grew up in if you work with kids you need to get something called a blue card. It is a light background check nothing too serious. In my cheerleading team there was some of us over 18 but most were under 18. Club management said if you are over 18 you should get one, not because it was needed, but just if a parent asked anything they can say we all have blue cards.

Cue talking to my friends about it and they effectively boiled it down to, "So you have a card that say you are not a pedo?"

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I'm the guy who makes it weird. I don't have a story, I am the story.