After five years of working at a Boy Scout camp I've come up with a list of things that you may have experienced if you have ever worked at a summer camp.

You might be camp staff if...

You have automated responses to acknowledge that you are actually paying attention. I.e. when someone says "alright", you say "okay", and vice versa, etc.

You know way too many skits, songs and cheers and can call them to memory at a moment's notice.

You are willing to wear a polo, cargo shorts and crew socks for the entire summer, regardless of how hot it gets.

You have all sorts of useful things in aforementioned cargo shorts including what you call a "trash pocket" that usually has at least two pieces of garbage in it.

You live off the caffeinated beverage of your choice, be it coffee, tea, Moxie, Mountain Dew, or any number of energy drinks.

You can learn to teach almost any merit badge in a matter of hours.

You get the urge to stop kids who are riding their bikes down the street and demand they put on helmets.

You try to use the buddy system in most aspects of your life.

You are more than willing to embarrass yourself in a plethora of ways, all in the name of campfire entertainment. Such as: getting covered in dirt because you were rolling around on the ground, getting various assortment of foods shoved in your face, actually being a piece of furniture, having your only role in a skit be that of a door, and last but probably my favorite, getting water thrown, poured and sprayed on you. (And having to sit through the rest of the campfire as a soggy staff member.)

You can completely fake being 'alive, awake, alert and enthusiastic' when in reality you were up till 2 am perfecting your lesson plans and you feel like death warmed over.

Being sick is merely an inconvenience and there's no such thing as calling out sick.

You somehow manage to make it to every meal on time. Well, the meals you go to, if you're not too busy working.

You would never run of your own free will, but you do at least once a week during camp season because drills are more important than asthma.

You have an irrational love of pizza day and will then eat leftover pizza anytime you don't like what was served for a meal, even if that meal is breakfast.

You use your free time to help wash dishes because the dish room can actually be a pretty chill place.

You believe going to Walmart is a 'night out' and you feel the need to dress up for it.

You forget how to act normal in the real world and end up getting a lot of strange looks from other Walmart customers.

You go to Buffalo Wild Wings for your night off, win trivia night, and then proceed to sing a camp song.

You have no idea what's really going on in the outside world, but you know which troop is having a cracker barrel on any given night because at least three of their scouts invited you.

I'm sure everything varies slightly from camp to camp, but summer camp staff really are a special breed of people and I have been blessed to meet some of the most wonderful people through my camp.