I walked by a table set up in front of a local grocery store and noticed little paper cupcake cups with two cookies in each.

I stopped and looked at the shortbread.

"Well, miss, looks like good cookies. But I just can't eat shortbread without..."

She poured the milk into a 3 oz paper cup.

I bought two boxes. And a quart of milk. One box made it home.

Caramel.Delites. Economy seriously limited our investment this year.

Agree about the Samoas. Bought 8 boxes (4 from each of two parents) at the office.

Y'all are amateurs. I freebase Caramel Delites.

In other words: "Hi, I'm Jim, and I'm an addict!"

[everyone else] "Hi, Jim! We're addicts, too!"

And yes, you'll find me at the storefront cookie table. Seeya there!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

P.S. On sweets, some bad news I'm sad to report: http://smokeonthewater.typepad.com/smokeonthewater/2011/03/first-the-boat-then-the-captain.html

My particular weakness is the Dos-i-dos. My wife just bought me two boxes of them, forgetting that I have sworn off of GS cookies, not because I am watching calories, but because I cannot stand the idea of providing any sort of funding for that progressive, pinko organization. (At least the national level GSA organization. I would have no problem if I knew that 100% of the profits stayed with the local troops that were selling them.) I am consuming them great indignation (and a latte on the side).

Samoas are the bomb!

I usually just give them the money (I'm not big on sweets but I'm a soft touch for youth groups), but I haven't seen any since I was sent here two years ago. I figured it might have something to do with the fact that the stores here are mostly filled with non-English speaking foreigners.
Do they have Girl Scouts in Mexico?

Be strong my brutha! Shalom Alichem!

I look them bitches in the eye, and without a smile I dryly lie, I'm diabetic.

Grizzly> Profits for girl scout cookies do stay within the local council and the troops do get a big cut.

Thanks for the big laugh after a long selling season (5 weeks) here in Austin, Texas. My troops (38 of them) made $12,000 in profits. This money supports the troops directly.

Thanks for buying girl scout cookies!

They can break the hardest curmudgeon like a cookie.
Merciless, I tell you, merciless.

JWM

3 boxes in 5 days. Even after I swore I'd keep the Thin Mints in the freezer 'til summer. At least they're only on sale for a month or so, otherwise, I'd end up in rehab.

Yeah, but I'm guessing that they're not made out of real Girl Scouts...

"COMMENTS THAT EXCEED THE OBSCENITY OR STUPIDITY LIMITS WILL BE EITHER EDITED OR EXPUNGED." That's what you put top and bottom of the comments area. Well, what about the post itself? It looks like you sprinkled "MILF" into that post with a salt shaker and really, isn't that exceed both obscenity and stupidity limits?

No.

AnObserver: Truly it is said: "Obscenity is in the mind of the beholder."

What a wickedly funny description.

I feel your pain.

I must confess that after being cookie chairman for my daughter's troop back in the 1980s, the bloom is definitely off the girl scout cookie rose. Our troop netted a whole 5 cents per box sold - the rest went to national, regional and state coffers. I offered to give the troop $50 if the leader promised we'd never have to sell cookies again. Hopefully things have changed. Not to be a grinch, but the whole organization is too multi-culti for me.

Darla, don't get me started on the fraud that is Toys for Tots.

Yeah, I thought that concerning that rule, the phrase "of the proprietor" was implied. Which shows that the hazard of trying to idiotproof the site is that there are always bigger idiots coming along.

Any time a mother is mentioned in this article, she's referred to as a "MILF." I agree with AnObserver, despite your so thoughtful "No," vanderleun. I'd see your intention in charactering the "classic" girl scout mom with that label once, if you feel like setting the scene so bluntly. Then you take away any other chance at identity and make her "MILF" at every exchange, every glance. At each use of it you forced every reader who knows the acronym to reimagine, if briefly, your lust, while you write about little girls and their cookies. Not such a tasty combination.

Cher Autumn,
Prepare for winter.

Cookie pushing is as industrial as the organizations churning out tomorrow's Georgetown students. Only their quests are different. The girls don't usually come knocking on doors in these parts. Parents just take the orders into their jobs and expect people to buy, buy BUY! And there are no MILFS in the current batch of GS moms in our local troop. The girls aren't much better looking, either. The cookies aren't anything to anticipate, because you can buy those kinds of cookies in the store all year round. Thin mints? Keebler makes 'em, too. They're called 'Grasshoppers'. Shortbread cookies? Yep. You can get those all year round, too.
What the GSofA DOESN'T sell is Pecan Sandies, or even better: Cashew Sandies.
Nabisco and Keebler have it covered, and there's no scheming financial dodge involved.

Cookie pushing is as industrial as the organizations churning out tomorrow's Georgetown students. Only their quests are different. The girls don't usually come knocking on doors in these parts. Parents just take the orders into their jobs and expect people to buy, buy BUY! And there are no MILFS in the current batch of GS moms in our local troop. The girls aren't much better looking, either. The cookies aren't anything to anticipate, because you can buy those kinds of cookies in the store all year round. Thin mints? Keebler makes 'em, too. They're called 'Grasshoppers'. Shortbread cookies? Yep. You can get those all year round, too.
What the GSofA DOESN'T sell is Pecan Sandies, or even better: Cashew Sandies.
Nabisco and Keebler have it covered, and there's no scheming financial dodge involved.

Sorry for the double post. Your moderator told me I was posting here too many times and told me to come back later, and then I come back only to see that your moderator had second thoughts, so to speak, and figured I wasn't posting enough.

My Mother was Executive Director of four different Councils, was well as being on loan for a few years to National as the National Budget Director. I was a Curved Bar Scout and had a troop of my own after I was married. In all those years and in all those councils, cookie money went to the camp fund, both for building and maintaining camps and also to provide camperships for girls in need.

That said, my Mother was quite disturbed before her death at the direction the Scouts were moving and she would be appalled today. With mothers all working, it is hard to get good people as troop leaders. Scouting has always been about empowering girls, but it has been hijacked by those who want to mold girls not to be well-prepared, well-rounded young women but to be activists for women being prepared to do battle.

I find them merely annoying and resent having more sugary crap pushed at me. No thanks.

Jeez, what a bunch of sourpusses! Little girls out in the world, having fun, making money to support their activities. How much better it would be if we could sit them down in a classroom somewhere and teach them how to apply for government grants to support Girl Scouts!
Went to Walmart yesterday as we knew our granddaughter's troop would be there. Jenna was having FUN! Dropped $40 for the priviledge of watching.

I have a troop of Cadets (8th-9th grade) and we've been selling cookies for 7 years and I am DONE. First of all it's a complete PITA to be a part of the annual cookie sale, 2nd we get 75 cents for every $4 we sell, 3rd I don't like the direction the organization is going (and has been going, frankly) and 4th the cookies taste like ass compared to how they used to taste when we got into the racket.

It's fun at first Jim, yeah, but that wears off. And seriously, some of the stunts the National Council pulls....I don't want to support them. I'd prefer to do troop fundraising for troop activities without having to pay tribute to the Councils above our troop level.

My experience in Girl Scouts came from my membership as a girl in Tacoma. In 1972 we were taught groupthink even then. It is from them I learned to hate the Girl Scouts. I wouldn't say that all troops are the same, but we were taught to not act like individuals or disagree with the group. Even as a ten-year old, I could see how unfair that was. I didn't last very long as a girl scout. In the sixties and seventies, almost every girl belonged to Girl Scouts.
More frightening is the assault on the Boy Scouts by hard core homosexuals. If anything, they need our support.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GS4KjkJU4Q
rip Tommy

That second video Gerard was CRUEL. I wouldn't be surprised to see that cute little Brownie testifying before Congress urging them to compel the American people to buy Girl Scout Cookies. Maybe there will be a new cookie made in her honor, too. We could call it the Fluke Sandie.

I spent the majority of last Sunday sorting, bagging, and delivering orders with my GILF, and her disinterested Brownie... three boxes of cookies and five lbs later, I'm not only disgusted, but disgusting.

This is my daughter's first year in Girl Scouts. I only bought nine boxes this year. So far; God help me.

My grand daughter proudly informed us that she sold 86 cartons of GS cookies by herself last Saturday, then she aimed her big, beautiful brown eyes at all her aunts, uncles, grandparents, and sold a few more boxes,... for the second time.

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My particular weakness is the Dos-i-dos. My wife just bought me two boxes of them, forgetting that I have sworn off of GS cookies, not because I am watching calories, but because I cannot stand the idea of providing any sort of funding for that progressive, pinko organization. (At least the national level GSA organization. I would have no problem if I knew that 100% of the profits stayed with the local troops that were selling them.) I am consuming them great indignation (and a latte on the side).

Selling girl scout cookies( and winning most of my troops' contests) got me started in my sales career;40+ yrs. ago! Who knew???????!!!!!!!!!!

I give them whatever small bills I have and run away to my car before they can force their cookies on me. Scary little girls. What's in those delicious confections they offer us. Do tin hats reflect their radio waves?

I always toss a few bucks their way. I'll buy a box for the office, then later simply make a donation. It's great to see kids out there, hustling for a cause.

I always toss a few bucks their way. I'll buy a box for the office, then later simply make a donation. It's great to see kids out there, hustling for a cause.

Oh, c'mon you guys, just stop, will you. The Girl Scouts make regular attacks on the local grocery stores. So what? I just smile at them sweetly and say thanks but no thanks, your leadership are a bunch of whores and you'll get blood out of a stone before you'll get a penny out of me and keep on walking without missing a stride. It's the same approach I take to answering the phone when the vultures call during dinner. The instant I realize it's a vulture I hang up. No excuses, no apologies, just hang up without saying a word. Try it, it's easy once you get the hang of it.

I agree with DS Craft. In addition to the tactics, the cookies are not even good and are a terribly bad bargain. No sale.

That time of year, again, eh?

Cute is definately a powerful force, Gerard - especially if you've never had kids of your own.

(Sigh)

I like Samoas, too.

Dude, I'm diabetic and can't even eat their utterly delicious Samoas or even the chocolate dipped peanut butter ones.. but I can't resist their sales pitch and end up giving them a few bucks every time I go to the store.. They're breaking my bank account!!

Dude, I'm diabetic and can't even eat their utterly delicious Samoas or even the chocolate dipped peanut butter ones.. but I can't resist their sales pitch and end up giving them a few bucks every time I go to the store.. They're breaking my bank account!!

When you first posted this story, my daughter wasn't old enough to be in Girl Scouts. Now she is. Suffice it to say that my dining room won't be used any time in the near future due to the mounds of cookies filling the room. On the other hand, the pile is diminishing at a rapid rate. Coincidentally, someone snuck into my closet and stitched up the waist in all of my pants.

Their latest stakeout location is outside of professional sports arenas after the game. In the last week, I've seen them in the parking lot of a baseball spring training field and near an NHL venue. The boxes were flying off the shelves, too. Even I, who do not indulge in most sweets, couldn't resist a box each of the Samoas and Do-Si-Dos. Be thus warned!

I agree with AnObserever and Autumn. The crude acronym was inappropriate and much too frequent.

Commercially baked cookies just don't float my boat, so it's easy to turn down the product, but not the kids. I ask them to recite the GS pledge en mass for a donation.

Very entertaining, it is.

Bertie Wooster: Am I wrong in thinking that all little girls are hard-bitten thugs of the worst description?

Jeeves: Your definition is sadly near the truth, sir.

You will like this cartoon:

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater

A solution:

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater

(today's, 3/20/13)

Given how crazy the Girl Scouts have gotten (they have been heavily infected by the left), best not to fund them any more.

Zig Ziglar has nothing on the Little Green Mafia… After buying four boxes in front of four different businesses I finally decided to say ‘no’… At the next store the crew offered their cookies .. I said no thank you.. they looked at me with their patented, perfected and proven ‘disappointed girl scout look’ and I immediately felt obliged to explain myself. “You see, I can’t eat your cookies.. I’d love to.. but I can’t.. I’m diabetic..”, I said, “The sugar might put me in a coma.. I might even die..” Without losing their smiles or even skipping a beat, the crew answered in unison, “That’s alright, you can buy some for your grandkids..” Samoas for me , too.

I bought a box of the chocolate covered peanut butter ones. 16 small flavorless disks for $4.00.
I won't do that again.

Whaaaaattttt???!!!! Gerard!! Busted!!

If you have to eat overpriced cookies, at least buy the Keebler replacements and DON'T support Planned Parenthood through GSA. It's easy to pass up the GSA when you think their woman of the year is Wendy Davis. Yup, that Wendy Davis.

Numero UNO: This was initially written in 2011.

Numero DOS: I don't condemn the local troop at Ken's Market or Safeway for the craven and disgusting policies of the national organization.

Numero TRES: If you or anyone else thinks I am going to hover at a stand of little girls and explain to them why their national scouting leaders are a bunch of demented parasites you and others are stark staring mad.

Numero CUATRO: If I want to get back at the Girl Scouts or Planned Parenthood I'll drive a large truck with a big bullhorn to their headquarters and let them know.

Pray for me. Where I work is the central distribution point for GS cookies in our area.

So far, I've only had half a pack of thin mints and two little samoas. Did you know that thin mints don't make you thin?

Condoning is approving.
Monty Python says, "Waffa theen mince."
The girl scouts hijacked my initials.

You were groovin' on the spanish number(o) thing, huh?

1) Sorry. I looked for an alternate publish date -- but not that hard.
2) the local troops turn most of that hard-earned cash over to their national people. If you think the cookie business is mafia, wait'll you see monopolistic uniform and doo dad business.
2.a) Wendy Davis is the tip of the iceberg. See also: the evolution of GSA project/badge literature. It's feminista/eco-bullies/Occupy on steroids.
3. When you get around to driving over to PP with a bullhorn please let me know. I'd like some pictures and audio.
4. The hand that rocks the cradle and all that jazz.
5. For a conservative alternative see: The Heritage Girls.

Oh yeah? Well I'm driving off with my bull horn now! Look for me on the evening news!

No need to tell the girls. Just don't help subsidize the evil that their organization is leaning toward by buying cookies.

And don't let anyone in your family join that group, not now.

@Gerard, "Oh yeah?"

Yeah.

Be sure to advise their parents their girls ought to switch to
AMERICAN HERITAGE GIRLS
http://www.ahgonline.org/

They're the ones WHO DON'T PROMOTE
either PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION
or THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA

BTW...for boys, there's TRAIL LIFE USA http://www.traillifeusa.com/

DEATH TO THE SCOUTS.

Just ran into a new sort of troop at my local Piggly Wiggly.

TransScouts. Pink beanies with labia-shaped ear flaps.

"What's the big seller here?" I ask no one in particular.

"Lots of people are buying Amputated Pud Creme Supremes on a Stick. You can eat dick and prance at the same time. Crunchy Teste Mini Joy Bags is a close second."

[That's all I got.]

Lance,
MERCY! I just blew coffee out my nose and all over my computer screen. HAHAHAAAA!!!

And it is Lance de Boyle for the win!

Gerard -- GS cookies are NOT on your approved exceptions to Lent! Just a friendly reminder from your sister.

"If you or anyone else thinks I am going to hover at a stand of little girls and explain to them why their national scouting leaders are a bunch of demented parasites you and others are stark staring mad."

Yeah, I don't bother to explain, I just say "No thanks!" with a pleasant smile and keep moving.

Part of learning how to sell--and part of being raised to adulthood that is sadly neglected in the 21st century--is learning how to handle rejection/failure/setbacks. "Not everyone wants to buy cookies" is pretty mild.

Oh come on. Lousy cookies. Over priced. Pushed by an org. that supports Planned Parenthood.

Lousy cookies now? Okay, I'll buy that. :-) But 50 years ago they were really good.

Great girls then and now? You betcha!

I can walk right by and politely say no thanks. Call me cold, rigid or uncaring.

I just cannot support an organization like the GS when it is in cahoots with Planned Parenthood.

Easty to say no thank you and just keep on walking.

These days, I go up to the mothers
sitting behind the stands and ask them
if they would consider havig the girls join
AMERICAN HERITAGE GIRLS
(the boys' equivalent is TRAIL LIFE USA).

When they ask why,
I point out the GSA (and BSA) promotion of
the homosexual agenda in America.

Many are displeased to hear this.
Some get upset I mention it, but
I figure it's important for them to know.

Anybody who thinks those are good cookies doesn't get out much.

Brother Gerard. Just a friendly reminder that GS cookies are still NOT on your list of exceptions to Lent. Carry on. XXOO -- AA

I have not bought a single box since I found out the little darlings are being indoctrinated by the Girl Scouts of America with the usual social justice mush. I try not to make eye contact.

I stopped buying these years ago. Happily they'll take a donation.

Hey Gerald,

Years ago, I'd read this and laugh quietly, wondering how easy it was for those girls to get you to buy Samoas just like that!

Guess what? My girls are now in GS, and I'm the Cookie Mom for their troop. Needless to say, they've been using Cute Factor on steroids at all their cookie booths, which I had to set up and pick up. And I tell you, people fall for it like flies! Especially with my seven-year old, until recently the only Daisy in the troop.

I read this to a couple of GS moms - and to the hubby. They ALL LOL!! Thank you.

Funny.

Every spring the Girl Scouts re-enact the pagan Roman fertility ritual of virginal girls passing out baked goods made from grain.

Some things never really change.

I've been through this!
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