my morning...a story of entrapment

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  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    angelica wrote:
    Stop it!!!! You are going overboard with cute!!!

    Seriously, you're bringing tears to my eyes! Literally! :rolleyes: Not to mention you're putting both Stephen King AND Judy Blume to shame! All over a subject as mundane and yet as profound as girl scouts! *sigh* :rolleyes: :)

    :D
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    baraka wrote:
    Did she hold a gun to your head? ;)

    Hehe...yes, a gun loaded with cuteness.
    $200 worth of cookies?!? Are you mad?

    No, or at least not for this reason. I buy a shitload of these things every year. I'll eat Thin Mints until it makes me nauseous and then just take the rest into the office.
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Jeanie wrote:
    As clearly shown, by the minx that rolled ffg! ;)

    Hah...her name was Samantha, and I'll never forget her. *sigh*
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    baraka wrote:
    Yeah, that time of year always stressed me out! Instead of selling 'stuff' for my daughters daycare, we just made a donation.

    Good idea!!! I must remember that! :) All that cleverness! Must be from your girl scout days! ;)


    baraka wrote:
    Hilarious!!! Oh, my GS cookies were just delivered. The little girl was adorable, but I had some self control and only ordered 2 boxes. Thin Mints...yummy!

    Yes I think the PJ Gabbly Girl Guides could be a powerful lobby group here on the board!!! :D

    So I must know, what's a Thin Mint? :confused:
    NOPE!!!

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    farfromglorified wrote:
    Hah...her name was Samantha, and I'll never forget her. *sigh*

    Well dear, I think you've opened up a whole other can of worms for yourself, judging from the illustrious scouting alumni that you've uncovered!! :D

    Who'd of thunk it? :)

    Samantha might be the least of your troubles! ;):p:D
    NOPE!!!

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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    yeah, when i was a girlscout we also did the door to door thing to sell the cookies. and not one of us got killed by an axe murderer either. these days the girls just have to stand outside the grocery stores because their fearfull parents don't want to let their kid to get snatched by the boogeyman. it's just more wussification of kids.



    yep girlscouts, where do you think we girls learned how to sell our cookies and pitch tents?
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I got thrown out of the Girl Scouts myself (it was a big misunderstanding, really!), but I atoned for my sins by being the "cookie mom" when my daughter was a Girl Scout. For two weeks we had to tunnel through walls of cookies to get from room to room. We "lost" a suspicious number of Tagalongs too (the ultra addictive chocolate-peanut butter ones) ... I suspect my husband ... at least, I hope it was him, since he wound up paying for them. Ah, good times!
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    prism wrote:
    yeah, when i was a girlscout we also did the door to door thing to sell the cookies. and not one of us got killed by an axe murderer either. these days the girls just have to stand outside the grocery stores because their fearfull parents don't want to let their kid to get snatched by the boogeyman. it's just more wussification of kids.



    yep girlscouts, where do you think we girls learned how to sell our cookies and pitch tents?

    Yay prism!!! :D Who'd have thought so many of the cool girls here would be girl scouts as well as PJ lovers? :)

    Yeah, I think the reason they stopped Bob a Job and the door to door cookie sales here was because of fears for the safety of the girls. Not that I've ever heard of anything bad ever happening to a Girl Guide here.

    Strange how we've come to change as a society.

    I actually went right back through my guiding badges last year and sewed them all onto a piece of blue cloth, so that I'd always have them together.
    And I got all the handbooks sent out too. It was great looking back over to see what I actually had to do to earn my badges. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    hippiemom wrote:
    I got thrown out of the Girl Scouts myself (it was a big misunderstanding, really!), but I atoned for my sins by being the "cookie mom" when my daughter was a Girl Scout. For two weeks we had to tunnel through walls of cookies to get from room to room. We "lost" a suspicious number of Tagalongs too (the ultra addictive chocolate-peanut butter ones) ... I suspect my husband ... at least, I hope it was him, since he wound up paying for them. Ah, good times!

    Woohoo!! This is soo exciting!! The PJ Girl Scout gang!! :)

    Should have known you'd be one of us!! ;)
    NOPE!!!

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  • binger
    binger Posts: 179
    One got me the other day. She looked like the girl from Little Miss Sunshine, big glasses and everything. $5 for a little jar of peanuts! Left feeling like I had just got shaken down.
    I want to point out that people who seem to have no power, whether working people, people of color, or women -- once they organize and protest and create movements -- have a voice no government can suppress. Howard Zinn
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Get that story published, and I'm sure you make back the $$$ you spent on girl scout cookies.

    Samoas/Caramel Delights are clear evidence of an enlightened, divine being, btw.
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I have fond memories of my guiding days.
    At least it seems that you people there also call them "guides" as in girl guides like we do here in Canada.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    angelica wrote:
    At least it seems that you people there also call them "guides" as in girl guides like we do here in Canada.

    Yes, we do! :) Brownies then Girl Guides then Venturers or Rangers. Least that's how it used to be. I made it through Brownies and into Guides. And I was a Guide Leader for a little while. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • CaterinaA
    CaterinaA Posts: 572
    Extremely cute story!!

    FFG, you have some writing skills. The story flows beautifully, great use of adjectives, you succeded in portraying the mood of the morning, congrats!!!

    One more thing, you gave me a great idea. I can't wait for my husband to go to sleep to throw tic-tacs jeje, maybe that'll stop the snoring...
  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    CaterinaA wrote:
    Extremely cute story!!

    FFG, you have some writing skills. The story flows beautifully, great use of adjective, you succeded in portraying the mood of the morning, congrats!!!

    One more thing, you gave me a great idea. I can't wait for my husband to go to sleep to throw tic-tacs jeje, maybe that'll stop the snoring...

    Thanks for the compliments Caterina -- they mean much coming from you.

    Be careful with those tic-tacs...you've got to get it just right so they land on the tongue and not in the windpipe ;)
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    The Girl Scouts that lived in my old neighborhood had me pinned. They knew I was a Thin Mint junky. Every year 2-4 of them would hit my house seperately knowing that they had a sure sale.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul

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