They are ready on every street corner to pounce

[superbadgirl]

And outside every grocery store. Be warned, folks. The Girl Scouts are out, and their cunning knows no bounds. I successfully avoided the bell ringing shouters downtown. The stand at which only a bedraggled adult sat, I passed right on by.

But the little munchkins outside Trader Joe's got me but good. Damn them!

Now, I could complain here about how ridiculous the price of a box of GS cookies is, but honestly - go down the cookie aisle. There are few cookies there of any quality that are more than 50¢ less. It chaps my hide that we're now paying $4/box.

Every single frozen Thin Mint will be worth it. Oh, yes.

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[xayeidemon.livejournal.com]

I remember selling Girl Scout cookies for $2.50 a box. I also remember "selling" a couple of boxes to myself and "forgetting" to "pay" myself before we turned in the money sheets. I "sold" enough cookies to get a GS pocket knife and some camping gear. Looking back on it, I know what I did was wrong. But I can't muster up enough remorse to actually feel bad for doing it (which I did every year for 8 years).

Oh, man. I "sold" so many boxes of Thin Mints...

[superbadgirl]

LOL!

I mean ... shame on you. ;)

[xayeidemon.livejournal.com]

Hey, after spending HOURS walking door-to-door in those itchy uniforms, giving my parents order forms to pass around at work, and standing in the sweltering heat at Wal-Mart for the sake of some unsold cookies, I thought the least I could do was make sure I was well compensated...in the form of a stainless steel mess kit complete with blue carrying bag embossed with the GS logo.

I'm sorry you were successfully ambushed by a group of Girl Scouts. But aren't Thin Mints right out of the freezer totally worth it? Isn't it awesome going to work in August, pulling out a row of Thin Mints (if they make it to August, that is), and eating them in front of your coworkers when they know they have to wait MONTHS until they get to even see another Thin Mint? Good heavens.

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

LOL

I don't have them waiting outside stores, but they send sign-up sheets with their parents to school and I'm compelled to buy that way! Who can say no to a doctor after all?

[superbadgirl]

I can.

Doctor: Would you please get on this scale?
Me: NO!

Tee hee.

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

LOL

[khek.livejournal.com]

I've been hit up by what seems like every third to fifth grade girl walking through the library door. The problem is, I can't buy from one without having all the rest moping because I played favorites.

So I lie.

"I already bought cookies from my niece...sorry." It works well, even with the groups sitting outside at the grocery store, the dump, even waving signs on the street outside the scout house.

Those little girls are dangerous!

[superbadgirl]

They are everywhere. None of my nieces are Girl Scouts, believe it or not. Several Boy Scout nephews, though, used to always hit us up for popcorn and stuff. That all is much easier to say no to. Heh.

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

My girls are selling them for $3.50 a box...

[superbadgirl]

I wonder if price varies by region?

Now I feel totally ripped off. ;)

[travellingone.livejournal.com]

They hang out by our subway. That's when I take the bus.

[superbadgirl]

I've bought one box. I won't buy more. I swear.

I hope.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Thank heavens my daughter is no longer doing Girl Scouts. We don't have to sell those damned cookies anymore! Yay! Or march in that freezing, often wet interminable Xmas parade! Or do Thinking Day! Or...yeah, I think we BOTH needed a break from the relentless Girl Scouts (although I do think it's a very worthwhile organization, it does get tiresome after a while)

[superbadgirl]

I'm exhausted just reading about it. ;)

[kaleecat]

i'm totally going to the wrong places, I want my thin mints and haven't found them yet. *pout*

fond memories of the days when your innocent self was sent out in the wilds of unknown neighborhoods with an order sheet and your itchy uniform to sell those cookies. sure usually a parent would be parked with a book & the window down somewhere in vague sight. but you won't catch a GS or Brownie actually walking the street anymore.

I guess this means I'm going to have to go to walmart, i'm sure they'll be camped (heee) out there.

WANT ME COOKIESSSSSS!

(think i'll go find a cookie monster icon now)

[superbadgirl]

Oh, man, we've got more Girl Scouts than I know what to do with up here. I should send a troop down there. ;)

I think it's a very good thing I was never a Girl Scout. I never would have survived all those cookies.