Page 3 | Did anyone here ACTUALLY get thrown out of the Brownies?

Mookatron · 2019-01-31T11:23:54+00:00

Because every time I mention that Dd is enjoying it that's all anyone says. Surely everyone can't have been expelled from the Brownies or it wide have disbanded by now

TawnyPippit · 31/01/2019 14:31

My mother did for "stamping her foot at Brown Owl", which sounds like a hanging offence in the 1950's.

A friend of my Dad's got thrown out of Wolf Cubs (apparantly it used to be a thing) for breaking ranks during a parade when he was carrying the ceremonial mace (with a carved wooden wolf's head on it). He spotted his worst enemy from school in the crowd, ran over to him and hit him hard on the head with the mace. I can remember being enthralled when I heard this story - it you are going to go down, you might as well do so big time. Dad's friend grew up and became .. a solicitor!

Whitelisbon · 31/01/2019 14:35

I was asked not to come back, the school bully had tripped me while playing Jacob's ladder, so I stabbed her in the leg with my knitting needle.
Wasn't my most intelligent moment, especially seeing as she was brown owls daughter she totally deserved it though

LiveatCityHall · 31/01/2019 14:42

I was. It was early 80s and we'd gone on a pack holiday to Portsmouth. While we were there we did some visit or other and I was in the gift shop buying a small puzzle postcard. I went to the back of the queue to pay for said item and brown owl accused me of stealing it. When we got back she came round to my house and told my parents what had happened. I was asked not to return.
Brown owl was an absolute bitch.

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Mookatron · 31/01/2019 14:43

I forgot I had started this thread! I'm glad I did now. I mean, I'm sorry for those of you who were 'managed out' but it's made me giggle on an otherwise fairly shitty day!

I'm sorry for doubting as it seems more common than I thought!

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AppleKatie · 31/01/2019 14:49

Everybody has hilarious stories about getting kicked out of the brownies/guides.

All I can say is that i’m either lucky, it’s generational or regional.

I didn’t get kicked out of the brownies for interrupting the pow wow and getting all my friends to shout loudly and lay down.

I didn’t get kicked out of the guides for sneaking out to the scout camp at night.

I didn’t even get kicked out that time we drank vodka on a sleepover.

They didn’t kick us out of the rangers when we absconded from camp in a foreign country!

I have now done 15 years as an adult leader and never kicked anyone out. Not even the girl who told me she was pregnant or the one who snuck off from an activity for a fag 😂

Whatdoesitmatteranyway · 31/01/2019 14:50

I was

Can't remember why but the guides were asked to help out with the brownies one evening. Groups of brownies were paired with two guides and we had to "teach them something relevant"

Me and my partner in crime were showing them how to make petrol bombs using water in lieu of the petrol.

We were asked never to return

noodlenosefraggle · 31/01/2019 14:55

I was for messing about in church. I don't know anyone else who was though! My DS is not enjoying scouts as he's just gone up from cubs. I told him to stick it out for a term but after reading dome of these I may let him quit.

BTWifiwithFON · 31/01/2019 16:45

Yes, in the 70s. I was dropped off at a strange woman’s house and told I had to clean her kitchen for some badge or other. It was minging and I just couldn’t do it. I didn’t know where to start. Even Marie Kondo would have struggled to spark joy in that room let alone a confused 7 yr old.

IJustLostTheGame · 31/01/2019 16:56

I was kicked out of guides. I hated guides.
I was on guide camp and they wouldn't let me ring my mum to come and take me home, they said it was normal to be homesick. I wasn't homesick. I was sick of having to go to bed at half 7 aged 15. so I went and smoked fags and got drunk on the leaders' hidden bottle of wine.
That got me home immediately.
And the leader got in trouble for the wine.

halfwitpicker · 31/01/2019 16:59

A friend of my Dad's got thrown out of Wolf Cubs (apparantly it used to be a thing) for breaking ranks during a parade when he was carrying the ceremonial mace (with a carved wooden wolf's head on it). He spotted his worst enemy from school in the crowd, ran over to him and hit him hard on the head with the mace. I can remember being enthralled when I heard this story - it you are going to go down, you might as well do so big time. Dad's friend grew up and became .. a solicitor!

^^

Where the feck was this? North of the Wall?

EggysMom · 31/01/2019 17:13

I was asked to leave Guides after protesting, and trying to garner support to my protest, about being reprimanded for wearing the 'wrong' skirt.

My school uniform was grey. My parents weren't prepared to buy me a navy skirt for just 2 hours per week. So I alternated attendance in my school skirt or a pale blue skirt. They reprimanded me and said I had to have the correct uniform. I pointed out that being a Guide was about how a person felt and what they did, and not what they wore. It was suggested that maybe Guides wasn't for me ... despite having been a Sixer in Brownies and making it to Patrol Second at Guides.

dangermouseisace · 31/01/2019 17:30

I got thrown out.

My mum had paid subs. Brown owl/snowy owl insisted that we hadn’t. Mum insisted she had. So, I was asked to leave.

NicoAndTheNiners · 31/01/2019 17:30

I got thrown out of guides for smoking on guide camp.

Rockbird · 31/01/2019 17:53

Never went to brownies but my friend and I left guides...by mutual agreement, shall we say!

rallytog1 · 31/01/2019 18:11

I didn't get thrown out but I was told that I wasn't a good fit and it would be better if I didn't come back.

Troels · 31/01/2019 18:13

My older sister was a Brownie, so I was invited to join and went to one meeting. Mum picked us up and I never went back even though I thought it seemed fun. Turns out Brown owl told Mum it really wasn't for me. Not a clue what I did wrong.

gutrotweins · 31/01/2019 18:22

Dh got chucked out of cubs. He and his mate were running around the church and broke a vase. The was the end of their dob dob dob.

BayandBlonde · 31/01/2019 18:27

Yes me 🙋‍♀️ because I hated every minute of it, struggled to learn the Brownie code (or whatever it was) and failed miserably at earning badges

It's was just shit. I wanted to be a girl guide as it was more grown up, instead I spent my time knee high in farmyard muck

JassyRadlett · 31/01/2019 18:28

I’m another one. We got a new brown owl equivalent, who brought her daughters with her from another pack. She demoted me from being sixer of my six so her daughter could be sixer instead. Rather than telling my parents about it, I refused to do all badgework and encouraged the rest of the six to join in. My parents were asked to remove me. They then got to the bottom of it, other parents were also cross, and the brown owl was moved as she’d put so many people’s backs up. I declined to return - it really spoilt it for me.

Broken11Girl · 31/01/2019 21:20

I was asked to leave Girls Brigade. Pretend it was similar. We had made Easter cakes, one of the mini chocolate eggs fell off one of mine. I took another one without asking, it hadn't occurred to me to ask - apparently this was stealing That was probably an excuse tbh, as we weren't a religious family so they probably jumped on the chance. It hurts as a kid though. My parents paid subs which paid for the ingredients, the extra eggs would have been eaten anyway or chucked out.

Flipflop789 · 31/01/2019 21:26

Haha i was too! I didnt realise this happened to others too thought it was just me who must have been a terrible brownie all those years ago!