Boy, it's been a tough week. Working with volunteers is always tricky. Even more so when you're a volunteer too. Lots of people want to be heroes. It's a good thing they do. Where else would you get volunteers. People who give freely of their time, do so because they hope to do some good. So saying they want to be heroes may sound a bit crass, but actually that's exactly what they're trying to do. That's what heroes do. They do good deeds. So why should that be a problem? Well, if everybody runs out and grabs a white stallion and puts on a mask and says "Hi HO Silver", that can spell bad news for the bad guys. So what's wrong with that? Well, nothing as long as it's the bad guys that get the bad treatment. The problems come in when the Lone Ranger doesn't know who the bad guys are. See, in the old movie series, The Lone Ranger always talked thing over with the sheriff or the ranch owner or the ranch owner's daughter, first. That way they could tell him who the bad guys are. Presto. No collateral damage. Now, today we don't deal with bad guys so much when we volunteer, but sometimes we inadvertently do something that upsets another volunteer. you can lose helpers that way. Sometimes you lose very helpful helpers. Maybe better helpers then the ones you gain. That's why you need somebody to tell you who the bad guys are and who the good guys are. The Lone Ranger knew that. That's why he always won. We can't all be Lone Rangers, and you never heard about the wannabe Lonesome Wranglers. They tried to do things without checking first and they wound up shooting the wrong people and went to jail, I guess. Today, lonesome Wranglers just drive good helpers away. Don't let your kids grow up to be Lonesome Wranglers.