A Most Serious Issue
Ah, Spring. Don't you just love it? It brings the arrival of so many things. Baby Birds. Fresh, green grass. Garage Sale Season. T-Shirt Weather. And Sno-Cone Season is just around the corner. But nothing spells the start of spring like...
The Girl Scout Cookie.
Ah, the Girl Scout cookie.
Who can resist one? Who can resist those cute little girls who accost you the minute you walk through the doors of your local grocery store or bank... with their cute little green outfits, their Laura Ingalls braids, and their adorable little freckles. Who can actually turn down all the little girls at church who approach you with an order form in one hand and a Bible in the other? How can you refuse your cute little cousin or niece who never, ever, ever manages to sell that many - and wouldn't it be great this year if the family bonded together and helped little Susie, Mary, Sally be the top-selling girl in her troop this year? And, of course, exactly how can you say no to the bosses daughter?
You can't. Because it is impossible to turn down a Girl Scout Cookie. Because it is impossible to take one look at those colorful blue and purple and green boxes and turn one down when you know it holds the yummy goodness of a Samoas or a Thin Mint or a Tagalong inside.
It is absolutely impossible.
Which leads me to this. Why, oh why, do they start selling them in the Spring? The Spring... when summer is just around the corner. When you've already vowed to lose all that weight you gained over Christmas. When you've already renewed your gym membership or bought the latest workout DVD. When swimsuit season is 3 months away! What's the deal with that?
Wouldn't it make much more sense to sell them in the Fall? When the air is getting crisp and you trade in your shorts for jeans, your T-shirts for sweaters, and your flip-flops for... okay, well, I wear flip-flops all year. But you know what I mean. It's Fall, man. The season of gorging yourself with Halloween candy and Thanksgiving dinner. You're already gaining weight... so what's a few hundred boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, then? They'd make great Christmas gifts. They freeze really well, and what's more perfect to break out on a cold chilly night than a warm cup of hot chocolate and a Do-Si-Dos?
Why on earth would they bring them out in the Spring when they could sell even more in the Fall? It leads me to believe that the CEO of the Girl Scout Foundation is either related to or in cahoots with the CEO of Weight Watchers and 24-Hour Fitness. Because, really... is there any other explanation?
Or is it just my own personal issue. Surely there are others who face the same problem.
Surely?
All I know is that Sim bought home a jillion boxes the other day and they are gone. Gone, Gone, Gone. Gone like the wind.
And I'm beginning to suspect that the true reason Sim still hasn't been transferred to a jobsite closer to home is because his boss and crew know that their little girls' Girl Scout Cookie sales will drastically plummet if 'ole Sim ever gets transferred out.
It's a conspiracy, I tell ya. A true conspiracy.
And, if like my husband, you are thinking, "Uhm... if you're going to go on and on AND ON about it, why don't you just freeze them and eat them in the Fall?"........... then it leads me to believe either one of two things:
That A). You're male or B) You have actually never tasted a Girl Scout Cookie.
Because it is impossible to eat just one.
Thank Goodness, Nandini has several more years before she can become a Girl Scout.
Oh, yikes. Can Brownies sell them, too???????????
Leslie
The Girl Scout Cookie.
Ah, the Girl Scout cookie.
Who can resist one? Who can resist those cute little girls who accost you the minute you walk through the doors of your local grocery store or bank... with their cute little green outfits, their Laura Ingalls braids, and their adorable little freckles. Who can actually turn down all the little girls at church who approach you with an order form in one hand and a Bible in the other? How can you refuse your cute little cousin or niece who never, ever, ever manages to sell that many - and wouldn't it be great this year if the family bonded together and helped little Susie, Mary, Sally be the top-selling girl in her troop this year? And, of course, exactly how can you say no to the bosses daughter?
You can't. Because it is impossible to turn down a Girl Scout Cookie. Because it is impossible to take one look at those colorful blue and purple and green boxes and turn one down when you know it holds the yummy goodness of a Samoas or a Thin Mint or a Tagalong inside.
It is absolutely impossible.
Which leads me to this. Why, oh why, do they start selling them in the Spring? The Spring... when summer is just around the corner. When you've already vowed to lose all that weight you gained over Christmas. When you've already renewed your gym membership or bought the latest workout DVD. When swimsuit season is 3 months away! What's the deal with that?
Wouldn't it make much more sense to sell them in the Fall? When the air is getting crisp and you trade in your shorts for jeans, your T-shirts for sweaters, and your flip-flops for... okay, well, I wear flip-flops all year. But you know what I mean. It's Fall, man. The season of gorging yourself with Halloween candy and Thanksgiving dinner. You're already gaining weight... so what's a few hundred boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, then? They'd make great Christmas gifts. They freeze really well, and what's more perfect to break out on a cold chilly night than a warm cup of hot chocolate and a Do-Si-Dos?
Why on earth would they bring them out in the Spring when they could sell even more in the Fall? It leads me to believe that the CEO of the Girl Scout Foundation is either related to or in cahoots with the CEO of Weight Watchers and 24-Hour Fitness. Because, really... is there any other explanation?
Or is it just my own personal issue. Surely there are others who face the same problem.
Surely?
All I know is that Sim bought home a jillion boxes the other day and they are gone. Gone, Gone, Gone. Gone like the wind.
And I'm beginning to suspect that the true reason Sim still hasn't been transferred to a jobsite closer to home is because his boss and crew know that their little girls' Girl Scout Cookie sales will drastically plummet if 'ole Sim ever gets transferred out.
It's a conspiracy, I tell ya. A true conspiracy.
And, if like my husband, you are thinking, "Uhm... if you're going to go on and on AND ON about it, why don't you just freeze them and eat them in the Fall?"........... then it leads me to believe either one of two things:
That A). You're male or B) You have actually never tasted a Girl Scout Cookie.
Because it is impossible to eat just one.
Thank Goodness, Nandini has several more years before she can become a Girl Scout.
Oh, yikes. Can Brownies sell them, too???????????
Leslie
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