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Scotia had the most fun summer running around with all her swim friends. They fished and camped and did sleepovers, dinners and late night snacks and made silly TikToks with Scotia in a squirrel mask.  All the final fun things! Between that and working 35 hours a week she was busy!

One of her girlfriends heard that a few senior swim boys were going camping and the girls decided to prank them.  They booked a campsite in the same campground and Scotia drove my car so her car wouldn't be a give away.  They set up their campsite, ate supper and once it got dark sneaked over to the boys site and laying low in the woods whistled randomly for a bit until it was clear the boys were bothered and then they snuck back to their site.

They crawled back later with more whistling and tossed a doll  (missing an arm and an eye?) over the boys tent and into their campsite.  The boys were pretty freaked out.  One hopped in his car and starting shining his lights all over. The plan had been to just scare the boys, sleep and leave first thing in the morning and never speak of it again.  But the girls were afraid the boys were going to just pack up and leave and miss their fun camping night so then they made themselves known and had a super fun night sitting around the campfire all together and talking until the wee hours of the morning. 

One of the boys stole Scotia's car keys that night and she called me early in the morning (needing to leave for work) that she didn't have keys.  I made it clear that I wasn't driving all the way out there with a spare set when she knew where her keys were.  So she walked over to the boys tent, made some noise and said, "I need my keys, I have to go home and go to work" and then a lone arm popped out of the tent door and dropped her keys in front of her. 

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