It's that time of year again, when the Girl Scouts of America are pushing their sugary wares. It used to be cute kids knocking on your door and hey, they're cute and the cookies are good so you'd buy a couple boxes and feel okay about it. Not any more. Now it's about some warped competition by fat assed assertive self entitled mothers in your face. They let them set up a table in the local stores and they get right in your face as soon as you walk in. "How many boxes do you want?" Pencil poised over order form as their kid is a mile away kicking the gumball machine. Bite me, soccer mom from hell. They block your way and demand sales. Rude and obnoxious women who should know better, but, who think they have a right to act like Hitler in a grocery store.*
My friend always orders Thin Mints, it's a tradition with her. This year the obnoxious mom brought her Lemon. Then she called in the gestapo scout leader who threw the order form on the counter. She looked like a deranged wrestler... Lemon! You get Lemon! So, what are the kids learning? Nothing from me, I'm not participating. Get out of my face, Ma Barker, or I'll hurt you.
My friend always orders Thin Mints, it's a tradition with her. This year the obnoxious mom brought her Lemon. Then she called in the gestapo scout leader who threw the order form on the counter. She looked like a deranged wrestler... Lemon! You get Lemon! So, what are the kids learning? Nothing from me, I'm not participating. Get out of my face, Ma Barker, or I'll hurt you.
19 comments:
Oh, that stinks! They don't come door to door here, either, but at least it's the kids selling at the Canadian Tire door and not their moms...the day I would sell cookies instead of my kids doing it...
The best ones are the chocolate/vanilla sandwich cookies and they have to be eaten straight out of the freezer. Yum.
Wow DD they must be a bunch of Stalin's selling cookies. We don't have that problem around here. They just sit patiently waiting for someone to come up. Sometimes the girls say cookies for sale. ( anyone ever seen troop beverly hills? they sold cookies but had a cute little song to get people to buy) It was called cookie time.
Usually I find them in the mall selling cookies. MMM tagalongs are my favorite.
We still have the little ones coming to the door, but the smart ones hit your place of business. We have the cutest little girl that comes in with her dad and she makes bank, let me tell you. Last year she sold enough cookies to get an ipod and this year, she won another one to give to her mom. Very cute :)
Thin Mints
THIN MINTS
I don't give a rat's ass who I buy 'em from - just SELL them to me and then GO AWAY!
Until next year when I shall buy more..........
I do not mind the girls coming to my door and I did order some this year. What pisses me off is
my co-workers hawking the sales
flyers at work. What does that teach the kids??? I have now drawn the line in the sand at work.
Last week one guy was selling pizza's for his kid in preschool.
Look, if your private preschool can not afford new crap, too bad.
I paid tuition to send my kids to preschool and I pay taxes to support schools now. So sick of the constant fund raisers. Take
your sales order forms and cram them up your ass.
I was "cookie mom" for my daughter's troops for many years. Dealing with the crazed sellers who rag on girls who don't sell as much as their precious daughters and the indifferent ones who sign up for booth time and then don't show just about drove me crazy. Then there's always the one mom who uses the cookie money for her personal use (my car broke down and the money was in the house - it's not YOUR freakin money!). Thank goodness there were cases of cookies in the house so I could eat my stress away.
Sounds like you've got some terrible cookie-moms running things there, DD. They are not like that here. They don't come door-to-door on our street, but we used to have two girls on our street, and one that was sister of a classmate of our son's, and they would all hit us up, and we would buy from them (heavily).
The last few years, those girls are no longer selling, or not in the neighborhood, so we run into the GS girls and moms at the grocery store. They do have tables set up in the foyer, and the girls all stand at the doors, and have always been courteous.
I actually made a decision not to buy any this year, but traded cars with my husband one night, and the trunk was loaded with cookies. It was as if he was mugged by a troop.
So, now when they ask me to buy cookies, I just tell them we already bought, and moms and girls all say "thank-you for supporting girl scouts!". They really have been nice. I wish I didn't have all those cookies, though. We still had some left from two years ago.
I agree with Vicki as far as all the fund-raisers. I have been sick-to-death of it for years. My son attended parochial school, and I understand the fund-raisers for them because they do not get subsidized by taxes. We had a jog-a-thon, an annual fund-drive, wreath sales, bingo nights, the annual auction, etc. In Catholic high school there are all sorts of fund-raisers as well. Why do public schools need fundraisers? Aren't the taxes supposed to support that? I have never sent my son to public school, and yet I pay taxes for it. I have always voted for every school bond measure. I have never complained, but the drives I see at work, raffles, pepperoni sticks, candy bars, wreaths, etc. You name it. I have never hit people I work with up for any fund-raiser items because I don't think it's fair to pressure people in that way. This year it was three or four moms at work trying to sell cookies for their daughters. I managed to dodge them all, but I shouldn't have to. Just let me do my work.
BTW, that is a cute picture.
We don't have GG cookies here. At least I never saw any. I've seen recipes for the GG coconut caramel chocolate cookies and they look good.
I don't know what being a Cookie Nazi Mom teaches your kid. Nothing good unless it's an object lesson for what not to do.
Boy Scouts do it with the $16 cans of carmel corn too! Small cans! I sold GS cookies back in the 60's. I think they were 25 or 50 cents. What are they now $5? I never would buy them. Keebler makes a Grasshopper thats delish, if thats what you like and you can have them year 'round. Those cookies ain't all that ya'll. I don't buy them either. I think they stopped the door-to-door sales. Can't blame them. A pedo's freakin' dream!! But they have a quota and thats what the push is about. Have you never seen "Troop Beverly Hills"? Duh!!! LOL
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My son goes to a daycare and even though I pay what I consider a tidy sum, they still have 2 or so fundraisers a year. A large portion of the tution money goes to liabiity insurance. I will put up the fliers on my door (since my son is too little to sell anything) but I never ask anyone directly and I tell anyone who asks that it is up to them. My husband and I buy one or two things. I sell what I sell and that's that. I agree that anyone who makes a stink is too much. For some it has become a contest on whose kid can charm the most money out of the most people.
I think parents are getting tired of the fundraising. At least in my area, schools are setting a minimum and either you sell or pay. I don't know if that is just the public schools or not since my son is too young. I think if it comes down to it, most people would rather pay. It's work to keep track of all of the sales and then distribute all the items.
Thin Mints are freaking delicious! FYI to anybody who likes them: do a google search and you can find a lot of copy-cat recipes for them to make yourself.
P.S. Ava's Mommy- "Troop Beverly Hills" was my FAVORITE movie when I was about 10. "We're Wilderness Girls and it's cookie time!" Ha, I used to watch that movie over and over.
They do come door to door in my area. I've never been accosted by the kids outside Lowes, or the mall, or WalMart. I just buy a box or two each season, to kick in a little something to the GS. Did you see this about the girl whose GS cookie money was stolen, she was so sweet. http://www.katu.com/news/88423952.html
Linda...I saw that on the news. They called him the Cookie Monster. But I left before the article came on, so I don't know details.
We have some homeless guys outside of work giving a piece of candy if you "help the homeless". The other day when I got back from lunch the police had one of them in handcuffs. I don't know if he bought it, or stole it, but he took beer in the mens bathroom and chugged down a couple and our AP guy caught them.
They creep me out cuz they are so aggressive. Not sure why they are allowed there.
I bought and buy mine from my bank teller. Both her daughter`s are in the Scouts. She does not push. We just know her kids sell and order. $4 a box this year!
The leaders tell the parents that they want each girl to come back with NO LESS then 100 boxes sold. That is alot of pressure if you cant get the mark.
I buy a box of thin mints for hubs, a box of tagalongs (peanut butter) for youngest, and a box of Samoas for me! LOVE SAMOAS!
Girl Scouts is a cult.
Hey Pat-
Tell your friend to make her own Girl Scout Cookies. We have made the thin mints and the Samoas so far. The recipe is pretty close to perfect on the taste, even if my girls and I were WAY OFF with the look. lol
http://bakingbites.com/2005/10/thin-minties/
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