Day camp for kids through their freshman year of high school. Counselors are kids who peaked in freshman and sophomore year and are majorly depressed during the school year and are desperate to relive their glory days.

Counselors and older kids drink their asses off (counselors to forget that they’re almost adults and have already peaked). Work ethic = low and counselors = hungover. Once the counselors are too old to work there, they pretend they’re happy and move on to something else in the summer, until they have kids and bring them back to CHQ to continue the cycle.

Seasoners bring their kids and make them seasoners too in a desperate and futile attempt to live vicariously through their kids (since they peaked in high school). These kids will undoubtedly grow up and become counselors, peak in high school like their parents, and bring their kids to Chautauqua and put them through Boys and Girls Club, completing the cycle year after year.

Noun: a friend who is usually only called upon by a friend when a more primary/prominent friend is unavailable.

Taken from the term “second string” in an athletic competition situation. In football, if the star quarterback gets injured during a play, the second string is called off the bench to replace him/her. A “Second String Friend” is essentially benched until needed, if ever.

Synonyms: Plan B, Second Choice, Secondary Friend, Benched Until Needed