Middle-aged woman

Patricia, a middle-aged woman goes on a trip. Her husband is sick so she volunteers to take over for him one weekend. Patricia gets everyone together and assigns different duties to each scout. They are getting ready for hiking up the mountain. But first, they want to get something to eat. So the woman asks some scouts to prepare the meal and off they go. About 15 minutes later the scouts come back and told the woman, "We can't make the meal. We can't light a fire with the matches you brought." The woman replied, "Unbelievable! Those matches should be perfectly fine. I tested them all just before we left."