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#22 JACK QUINN

📍: TBL@BUF // 11 January 2022 📽️: Jack Quinn Ahead of His Sabres Debut | Buffalo Sabres

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so I’m working as a camp counselor this summer

The kids who go there range in age from 4 to 15, but my group was made up of 6 and 7 year olds

and here’s some amazing things that happened on just my first day

I had no idea what I was gonna do to start getting to know the kids but one of the first of them came in with his binder of Pokémon cards so I sat right down and started taking Pokémon with him and pretty soon there were like 5 kids plus me just looking at these cards and like 3 of them immediately just I M P R I N T E D on me

So after a bit of pokemans the one kid was just like “Who are you???” and I was like “I”m your counselor” and he just goes “YES!! FOREVER!?” and I was like “ahaha no probably not sorry man” but inwardly I was like “holy shit I must be doing this right he loves me already” and he was just super excited

This same kid was also like “my favorite color is pink because I love pigs and I have a collection of stuffed pigs that’s up to 26″ and none of the kids gave him shit for it

Along the same vein, this other kid was like “hey I need to use the bathroom” and I told him to go find a counselor who could go in with him (I’m a girl) and the kid who brought in the Pokémon cards was all like “Maybe you could just pretend to be a boy and go in with him” and it was clearly a joke so I was just like “haha no I think they’d notice I was a girl” (referring to my boobs but you can’t say that to a 6 year old) so he was like “yeah because of your pink shoes” and I was like “well guys can wear pink shoes too if they want” and he was like “oh yeah I actually have a friend and he wears pink shoes

Pokémon kid was also just generally adorable and we spent a bunch of time going through his card binder that he was super proud of and had organized alphabetically (like me!!) and he wanted me to tell me what my favorite one on each page was and why 

and when we got done with favorites we moved on to second favorites

and he told me some of his favorites and a lot of times the reason was just “because this one’s cute” and a lot of times little boys won’t admit to liking ‘cute’ things

We were talking about one of the Pokémon cards he had for this one called Bewear (who I’ve never heard of because I’m old I guess or at least these kids make me feel old) and how one of his moves is straight up just called bear hug so he demonstrated a bear hug on me and I was just <3 I love these kids

Pokémon kid also at one point ran up to me with this huge smile on his face and was like “Give me a kiss Mommy!” and my immediate thought was WOAH WOAH WOAH NOOO because that’s really really really Not Allowed at camp and I did the trainings on preventing abuse at camp last week so they were super fresh in my mind and I kind of had to shut him down as quickly and gently as I could

BUT at the same time I know that he’s only 6 and there’s absolutely nothing weird or dirty or fucked up in his mind about that so when taken in that context the fact that he felt comfortable enough to refer to me as ‘Mommy’ and ask for a kiss was like ‘omg mY CHILD’

And then this one kid who I’m just gonna call the Skyward Sword Kid gets his name cause that’s literally all he talked about

Like he came up when the Pokémon thing first started and I guess he saw me talking and was like “ayyyy a fellow nerd” and when I told him I’d never played he proceeded to tell me all about it

but like the way he did it okay was so fucking hilarious

So he’d be like “Yanno in Skyward Sword there’s a bazaar” and he’d talk about the bazaar for a while and then we’d do an activity so he’d shut up about it and do the activity but then I could be in the middle of counting kids, talking to someone else, ANYTHING, and just

“So another thing about Skyward Sword is you can catch bugs”

Like just out of nowhere he’d start talking like he’d never stopped and it was so funny

And the amazing part was that it was okay that I didn’t always have a lot to say about it because 1) I’ve never played it and 2) I tended to be busy juggling other campers, but he was totally fine with the fact that most of the time all I could offer was a generic “wow!!! how cool!!!” (although I tried my hardest to retain some of what he said so I could occasionally connect a bit more with what he was saying)

The best freaking part of the Skyward Sword Kid was that he didn’t even mind when my attention was diverted for a second like it’d be like “So in Skyward Sword you can collect stuff-” “HEY YOU PUT THE STICK DOWN. YES NOW.” “-like tumbleweeds and then upgrade your shield”

And I know I’ve said “best part of the Skyward Sword Kid” like twice already but the real true bestest part was that at one point this other kid came up who also didn’t know anything about Skyward Sword and at first when he asked SS Kid what he was talking about SS was just kinda like “oh it’s a video game” but I encouraged him to go more in-depth and the new kid was asking questions and being engaged and generally just being A Good Fucking Listener so not only did that give me a bit of breathing room trying to divide my attention but also I feel like Skyward Sword Kid had a way better listener than a busy counselor (as much as I was trying I really just couldn’t give him the attention he deserved for how much he loved talking about it)

AND THIS LAST FUCKIN KID OKAY

I didn’t have a Bonding Moment or anything with him but this part was just pure gold

So he has brought his Where’s Waldo book to camp and it just so happened that we had on our schedule “library” time, so the instructor there let him be a guest speaker and talk about Where’s Waldo

and when he was taking questions a kid asked him “can Waldo be in the water?” AND THIS FUCKING KID GOES

“Can Waldo go in the water? Great question; yes, yes he can.”

and I was just sitting in the back trying not to lose it because it reminded me so much of that scene from Zootopia

And the lady running it just leaned over to me and went “Wow, this guy’s GOOD.”