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Winter Camp Legends
Mouse up Ron's pantleg
| Origin | Winter Camp I (1977) |
| The Story | During the first perimeter hike, Tom Conroy flipped over a board and a mouse ran out and up his leg. Tom's pants were tucked into his boots, so the mouse never touched him. Once it realized that waasn't a good escape plan, it dropped off his leg and ran into the grass. No big deal. Later, several campers were up on the hill across from Clearwater looking for an appropriate Christmas tree. Suddenly Ron started screaming and yelling "It's up my leg, it's running up my leg". He thought a mouse had run up his pant leg, only his pants weren't tucked into his boot and so the mouse seemed to be inside his pants. As the others came to see what the problem was, Ron unbuttoned his pants and dropped trou. By the light of a flashlight, we could see that a pine branch had somehow gotten into the hem of his pants and wa working it's way up as he moved forward. |
| Trigger | This is usually told to downplay the Beast or to explain that people change over time. |
