HOW!

Every Friday night we have a Melodrama in the Hay Loft Opera House aka the Barn.
I'm the Indian. My job is to tell really bad jokes in between scenes to waste time.
Example of one of my really bad jokes: "What do you do when you see a bear?" Audience answers, "Run!" Indian: "No! You do not run. Why? Colorado bears like fast food."

A lot of my jokes require a volunteer. General rule if it needs a volunteer the joke's worse then a bad. I cringe inside sometimes.
But yesterday I chose this really quiet boy to be my volunteer. and his mother came up to me afterwards and thanked me for choosing him. He was so excited that I knew his name and was already repeating my bad joke to tell his friends back home.
It made me realize how much these kids look up to us. I was only an Indian telling bad jokes. Imagine if I had been there Wrangler taking them out on rides every day, twice a day. Imagine how big of an impact we, as staff, can have on these kids. How cool.