Scouting and "That Guy"

I love the Die Hard movies. I'm a big fan of Bruce Willis.  I recently watched "Live Free or Die Hard. " (Yes, it was like the eleventh time.) In the movie there is a bit of dialogue  and being the Hero or "That Guy". I see a lot of "That Guy" in scouting today. To the female readership  "That Guy" also means "That Gal."

Here is the Quote from John McClane:

"Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. [I do this] because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so [I'm] doing it. That's what makes you that guy."

Trust me if your a scouter, you are a hero to someone. You are "that guy." Probablly a dozen or more someone's in many cases.  I doubt any of us set out to be "That Guy."  It just happened.  I know I wasn't going to be "That Guy." I was going to be  what I thought was a typical scout parent. Drop the boys off at the meeting, help him with his achievements, go to pack meetings.  A typical scout parent from 1980 is what I had planned. But the Chief Scout in Heaven had something different in mind for me.  Now those that know me, know that I'm enjoying being "that guy". It is interesting  though that some of the young boys that only see Scout leader's during meetings or scout events think that we get paid for scouting. The fact that we do this for free  makes us "that guy" even more.   

If you look back in history  at the mean and Women that  we now consider to be "That Guy" or "That Gal", they are us and we are them. Ordinary people  put in extraordinary  circumstances and they performed as Scouts and Scouters do.  Just like we learned, just as we are trained, and Just like "That Guy".

So to all the scouters out there, Thanks for all you do.

Reply: (shrugs) "What was I going to do?"

That's what makes you "that guy."

Reply: (smiling) "Yeah."