My cousin’s 8-year-old daughter phoned the other night and said:
“I fell off my little brother’s bounce house and broke my arm.”
(pause)
“Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?”
Well, of course, Cousin Viva immediately bought three boxes. And I bet someone will take me to task for not buying one of each kind. 
[How much are the blasted things now, anyway? Three or four dollars?]
They’re $3.50
The little girl who got me didn’t need a sob story - she was just so adorable!!!
I only bought 2 boxes tho.
Is it Girl Scout Cookie Season already?
I better be on the lookout for them… I’ve got a hankerin’ for some Samoas.
They’ve got a table at the exit of the grocery store I go to.
Yum, Thin Mints, straight out of the freezer – it’s once a year, for a good cause, I owe it to them to buy a box every trip, just because I myself spent many years selling the @^(^E@ things.
$3.50???
You got ripped, FairyChatMom. My little girl scout will sell you all you can eat for only $3.00 a box.
Oh how I hate to see this time of year…
<sigh> I wonder how many Weight Watchers “points” are in a box of the peanut butter sandwich cookies. I simply cannot (will not) control myself. It’s a half a box at a sitting minimum. I guess I had just better not answer the door or go to the grocery for the next several weeks. <sigh>
My boss’s wife made the following pitch:
“She has to sell forty boxes. We’re up to twenty.”
My reply:
“No, you’re up to forty. Gimme the order form.”
I am such a sucker.
Mmm cookies… I’m gonna have to keep an eye out for the kids running around, or at the grocery store. I love the vanilla ones… mmm
Oh man, I loves me some Tagalongs.
I bought some a few years ago during a lunch break at Kmart, where the girls were out selling them. They said, in a chorus, “THANK YOU.”
I grinned and said, “No, thank YOU. I’m addicted to these things.”
Do they put crack in them, or something?
I got Do-Si-Dos, Aloha Chips and Samoans.
She also got me at Christmas, but that was with the overpriced crap in a catalog via her school/some company. Candy, candles, wrapping paper, and the like.
I’d rather have the GS cookies any day.
Before I buy, I always react with shocked amazement and use Wednesday Addams’ line …
“Are they made from real Girl Scouts?”.
Usually good for a giggle from the GS, always from the mom.
Ooh, Girl Scout cookies. I sold far too many of them as a Girl Scout, but I still love them…
Thinnn… Mintsssss… my preciousss Thinnn… Mintssss.
What the heck are Samoans and Tagalongs? Are there different kinds of cookies in different places?? Do you guys get Animal Treasures and (I think they’re called) Friendship Circles?
There are indeed different cookies in different regions. They’re actually made by different bakers, too. When I was a Brownie we sold a whole lot of cookies, none of which I can remember the names of, except “Lemon Pastry Cremes,” and then suddenly we switched to Little Brownie Bakers and we were selling a lot of the same cookies that we were selling before, but many of them had different names (that was when we first heard of “Do-Si-Dos,” which had been sold under a more descriptive name before). I think Thin Mints are called the same thing everywhere, but most of the other stuff varies from place to place and, sometimes, from year to year.
I’m a bit annoyed at the people at work shilling for their daughters… at the very least, bring the girl down and have her sell to me.
Of course, I’m guilted into buying a box - but I prefer buying from the kids at the grocery stores and banks who are actually doing their own selling.
So far, (it’s pre-order time) I’ve gotten away with merely two boxes… I know I’ll probably buy 10 before the season is out. The rest from actual girls - not their fathers.
They need a sales pitch?
The most traumatizing day at work recently was when we realized the employee with the Girl Scout daughter had relocated during the past year. What were we going to do? Where were we going to get our Thin Mints? Is Thin Mint withdrawal a workmen’s comp case?
Fortunately, someone had a connection with a “friend of a friend” sort of thing, so we had our new dealer come to the office last week.
I always require that my daughter sells the cookies herself–unless of course it’s the last day of the sale!. And she’s great at it for only 6 years old–heck, she sold me 20 boxes!
No, really, she got the slip on Tuesday night last week and by the next night had sold over 60 boxes.
I guess the best line has been
“I’ve (or she’s) only been in girl scouts for 2 weeks, missed the first week of the sale and is trying to catch up”…
Although, “I’m in Brownies and we’re selling cookies…” seems to have worked well too!
Here’s some info on the different varieties in different places thing: http://www.girlscouts.org/faqs/cookies.html#whoselects .
It also says that the cookies go from between $2.50-$3.50 a box depending on the area.
Samoas are the food of the gods—a shortbread cookie coated in caramel and coconut with stripes of fudge. Mmmm.
I love Thin Mints, the time-honored Trefoils (so delish with a glass o’ milk!) and the chocolate-covered peanut butter ones. Of course, I always get pissed because there are far more Thin Mints per box than there are of the PB&C.