Eric Sassone is a summer camp director.

He grew up going to summer camps as a kid, and some of his memories involved classic camp

hyjinks, like when two opposing teams of campers would target each other in the cabins.

So we used to have what we called sock wars, where we'd just ball up our socks.

And back in the 80s, the socks were really long.

So there was a lot there.

And just declare a sock war and just run and held each other with balled up socks.

And again, like, it probably doesn't sound interesting to you.

That's just good, clean fun.

I mean, come on.

It was good stuff.

Good stuff.

Yeah.

But Camp wasn't just about silliness and pranks.

For Eric, camp became a place where he could be someone different from the kid he was back

home.

It was a chance to kind of just reset, you know, like June 25th, here I am in a new place.

And people are like, hey, who are you?

You know, so you get to say, like, who you are.

And for me personally, I was kind of like the bad boy at camp, where I was really the opposite at home.

My sister was difficult and my parents were focusing on her and I was always getting good grades and doing what I was told.

And at camp, it was just like a chance for me to do a little bit differently from that.

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