# To the wackjob at the Girl Scout Cookie sale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 29, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348 "2012-02-29T15:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/81 "2012-02-29T21:57:05Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > GS cookies here in San Antonio went for $3.50/box. I know because Sophie sold 240 of the damnable things. > > This year the local GS organization told us to have checks made out to our account (i.e., instead of making the checks out to “Girl Scouts” they were to be made out to “JohnT”.) I asked them if they would warrant, by signature, their liability for all bounced checks, associated fees, and other financial damage that may impact my checking account. When told “No” I said that I’m not at all interested in financing the GS by taking on their transactional risk. :rolleyes: Ours is very clear that checks from anyone we don’t personally know should be deposited as council proceeds, and we should pay our troops with the cash and family checks. I believe the Council then hires Vito and Guido to do collections. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/82 "2012-02-29T22:03:03Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Our girls were treated to a lecture about how GSUSA promotes female homosexuality (no, we don’t actually, otherwise why would we need to promote abortions?) I don’t see the conflict. These are two different badges, right? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/83 "2012-02-29T22:28:19Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > I don’t see the conflict. These are two different badges, right? Of course they are! One’s got a coat hanger and the other’s got a pair of scissors. It’s hard to mistake the two. In all seriousness, I got this a lot when I worked for the Census Bureau. People would see the booth and take the opportunity to tee off on whoever was working there that day. I heard right-wing bullshit that Mr. and Mrs. Teabagger got from Michele Bachmann and some sort of crazy left-wing nonsense from Lord knows where. It went from WTF??!!! to amusing fairly quickly. The crazier the bullshit, the funnier it was. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/84 "2012-02-29T22:37:06Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Of course they are! One’s got a coat hanger and the other’s got a pair of scissors. It’s hard to mistake the two. Well, shit. What badge is Sophie’s PRIDE rainbow then? I thought it was for her completing her 15-hours of lesbianism activities? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/85 "2012-02-29T22:40:41Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Well, shit. What badge is Sophie’s PRIDE rainbow then? I thought it was for her completing her 15-hours of lesbianism activities? My girls loved the make your own dildo craft. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/86 "2012-02-29T22:49:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Well, shit. What badge is Sophie’s PRIDE rainbow then? I thought it was for her completing her 15-hours of lesbianism activities? No. The scissors badge is for the 15 hours of lesbian activities. The Pride Rainbow is the Dabbler badge. You know, the one they get when they’ve had a taste of everything. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/87 "2012-02-29T22:49:52Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > My girls loved the make your own dildo craft. Was your motorized? Because ours were and it took us _forever_ for Hobby Lobby to locate a small vibrating motor that would work and fit. $125 and 2 weeks later ( :rolleyes: ) Sophie finally had something to present to the troop leader, whom _still_ hasn’t returned it even though I _know_ I saw it in her purse the other day. All I have to say is that biatch better wash that thing before giving it back to my daughter! Though I will say it was a bit of an embarrassment when the thing fell out of Sophie’s backpack at school. Fortunately, Father Carlos was understanding. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/88 "2012-02-29T23:22:43Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Hit [the link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630580&page=49), to a text search for “paper towel”, and check your brain at the door. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14724158&postcount=2431). Read it and gag. Personally, I would have lectured you for pedalling crack. They’ve got to be putting something in those cookies that makes them so damned addictive. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/89 "2012-02-29T23:38:55Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > [You can!](http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/) My zip code, for example, is 93309. When I put that in, it tells me that the nearest cookie booth is 51 miles away in Lancaster. I live in a reasonably large city-- far larger than Lancaster, for example (we’re the 10th largest in California, they are the 30th largest)-- and I know that I randomly stumble on Girl Scouts selling outside of grocery stores and Walmarts each year. Oh, and when you click the link to go to the troop’s website, that gives you a 404 error. So it appears our troop just isn’t on the ball. That said, I’m happy to know the group in other places is embracing technology. Great thing to teach the girls, if they get a hand in that at all. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/90 "2012-03-01T00:11:14Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Well, to be fair, those Keebler guys ARE annoying ;). No,\* those\* elves have been reducted into being contortionists for the amusement of Graceland tourists. You know, sort of like Elvish Pretzels? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/91 "2012-03-01T00:21:47Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > I’ll balance yours with mine. > > We aren’t doing a booth this year. Our sales last year weren’t really profitable enough. Cookie season in Minnesota is COLD. And we were in a grocery store, in cold cold weather. They let us inside, in the cart area, but it was still cold. > > We sold cookies. We sold cookies to people who didn’t want cookies (and dropped them into the grocery’s food shelf collection bin. We got a few direct donations. As each person walked in, we had the girls accost them (nicely and once) with “would you like to buy some cookies.” > > About halfway through the evening a man walks in…in a short skirt, knee high boots, and a low cut leapord print top (well filled out by what I assume where prosthetic). And outfit more appropriate for a 45 year old Vegas hooker than a man picking up groceries on a COLD March day. But we have asked EVERYONE if they would like to buy some cookies, so rather than looking at my girls and say “avert your eyes, girls!” (the girls were speechless), I said “would you like to buy some cookies?” > > I think he was shocked. He came over, bought four boxes, and invited the staring girls to ask questions, which they did, and he answered very politely. He took his boxes, went into the grocery store, and of course, the girls fell over themselves giggling. > > But I did my Girl Scout Leader Sworn Duty to further the agenda of acceptance. Words cannot describe how fabulous I think you are at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/92 "2012-03-01T00:30:51Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Personally, I would have lectured you for pedalling crack. They’ve got to be putting something in those cookies that makes them so damned addictive. I found a recipe on instructables for GS Thin Mints that actually tastes like Thin Mints which means I’m free! Free, I tell you! I have cookies on MY schedule! ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/93 "2012-03-01T00:31:45Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > GS cookies here in San Antonio went for $3.50/box. I know because Sophie sold 240 of the damnable things. So they did indeed overcharge me? Looks like I’m going to have to go back to the supermarket and have a little talk with the Girl Scouts. (And [it won’t be the first time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557216), either.) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/94 "2012-03-01T00:46:06Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > No,\* those\* elves have been reducted into being contortionists for the amusement of Graceland tourists. > > You know, sort of like Elvish Pretzels? I am ASTONISHED sir, to see that you would so wantonly jeopardize your immortal soul. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/95 "2012-03-01T02:14:07Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > The quote has more to do with the economics of Teletubbie-land than the gender identity questions that danced through that show like guests at a John Waters party. If the right thinks Sesame Street is a hotbed of liberal ideas, I hope they never see Teletubbies, their brains might explode. > [@runner pat](#): > > Boom! > > [Falwell and the Teletubbies.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/276677.stm) [Falwell in hell.](http://www.derfcity.com/cityarchive/dubyayears/dubyayears27.html) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/96 "2012-03-01T02:18:46Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > So they did indeed overcharge me? Looks like I’m going to have to go back to the supermarket and have a little talk with the Girl Scouts. (And [it won’t be the first time](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557216), either.) That was one of the funniest threads I’ve read in a while. Your story was humorous, yes, but it’s the fact that you sent the Woosh factor to warp 11 that makes it a Modern Dope Classic. Good job! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/97 "2012-03-01T04:15:19Z")
$3.50 doesn’t sound all that much for cookies. Considering they were $2.50 back when I was selling them, oh, about twenty-three years ago? That they only went up a dollar since then, that’s not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/98 "2012-03-01T04:23:00Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > No,\* those\* elves have been reducted into being contortionists for the amusement of Graceland tourists. > > You know, sort of like Elvish Pretzels? This will go down as a black mark in your permanent record. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/99 "2012-03-01T04:24:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > $3.50 doesn’t sound all that much for cookies. Considering they were $2.50 back when I was selling them, oh, about twenty-three years ago? That they only went up a dollar since then, that’s not too bad. My sense is that in addition to modest upticks in the per-box price, they’ve been slowly lowering the number of cookies per box. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348/100 "2012-03-01T04:30:27Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > My sense is that in addition to modest upticks in the per-box price, they’ve been slowly lowering the number of cookies per box. Ah, well then that does indeed suck. I notice now they only have two sleeves. (I can’t remember how many there were when I was a kid) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-wackjob-at-the-girl-scout-cookie-sale/614348.md?page=6)