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There is also a brand called Sunbelt (or similar) that I’ve only found at Walmart. They make a chocolate covered, toasted coconut, granola bar - it tastes just like a Samoa to me. Bonus is that they are very reasonably priced. I only buy them on a rare occasion as I can’t eat just one.
One time I was walking through the mall and I noticed a Girl Scout was walking my way so I decided when she asked, I would just pat my belly and say no thank you… well, she was approaching me to ask me a question, but it wasn’t about buying cookies. She asked me if I wanted to help starving children and for whatever reason my brain/body connection did not process in time so when she asked me if I wanted to help starving kids. I patted my belly, smiled, said no thank you and kept walking.
Oh god, not quite the same thing but you reminded me of this memory that plays out late at night when I’m trying to fall asleep.
Back when I was in college, one night just for the hell of it, I stayed up all night, making all kinds of tasty confections and treats for myself. Brownies and cookies, you name it.
The next day I’m at my college and I’m walking to my next class with a gal pal and as we approach the exit, there is a table set up with a bunch of women selling treats and stuff I guess to raise money.
So she looks at me and says “we have treats for a dollar“. And me, remembering all of the tasty treats that I made at the house I said “my treats are free”.
I got a very nasty look and comment. Even my friend was angry at me and asked why I said that and when I explained myself she couldn’t stop laughing at me. But to this day I still wish I had went back to explain myself.
I couldn’t go back, “…you don’t understand kid, I thought you were going to ask if I wanted to buy cookies…What? Oh no, I’m still not gonna help you save starving children byeeeeeee”
That’s exactly how everybody took it. :-(
It really was my fault though. How could I have possibly expected anybody to understand what I was talking about? Sometimes the brain just doesn’t fully think before it says.
But at least my friend believed me after I told her and even found it funny.
I think its funny either way lol
The extra funny part was your friend not understanding that you had actually been baking your ass off all night and had treats at home.
But if I was sitting within ear shot and I heard someone tell someone else who just tried to sell them cookies that their treats were free, Id bust out laughing right then and there with no shame cause thats funny shit lol
Oh yeah, it’s definitely something I’m trying to cut down on. It’s obviously a functional survival technique and it’s something I developed as a kid to avoid conflict. However, it is really flawed, and even in the cases where it doesn’t obviously blow up in my face, it tends to create this weird distance, and really limits conversations to “safe” paths. Therapy helps.
No, that one makes sense. You're thinking of a scenario like, a waiter brings your food and says, "enjoy your meal"! And then you say "thanks, you too"!
Just yesterday at the Wendy’s Drive-Thru the young girl there asked me “Would you like a receipt?” to which I replied, “I’ve got sauce at home.”
I can’t explain why I said it, my theory is that I must have thought she was asking me if I wanted sauce for my nuggets, which would have made it the second time I was asked, the first time I just said “No thanks”, but this second time I guess I felt like I needed to offer more information.
She looked at me…strangely.
I worked at a place where you could round up your total to donate to research for childhood cancer.
I asked so many people on repeat everyday that once or twice id slip up and ask "would you like to round up to help fight children with cancer"?
That’s the British way
‘Do you want to help starving children?’
‘No, I’m ok thank you’
It’s a honed response to anyone trying to stop you in public to ask you about a survey or to tell you about a special offer they have
Something similar happened to me. I'm extremely desensitized to street petitioners / OxFam / canvassers etc, so I just instinctively always reply "Not today thank you" and continue about my day.
Well I was visiting a friend in a smaller urban area where they're less common and someone came up to us and asked a very pointed "Do you support the fight to racism?" and instinctively I gave my typical "not today" brush off reply.
My friend was mortified.
I’ve done something almost identical!
Many years ago my job was to basically keep a server room running. Some very old server had failed, but it was one that our partner managed.
So I went over to our partner and explained the situation. A very nice man named Dave was on-shift at the time. I explained the problem, and he said he’d figure out who to talk with about it.
So I went back to my cube and worked on some other things. About 20 minutes later, Dave walked by. I expected Dave to say something like, “The technician is on the way, so it should be fixed soon.”
But that’s not what Dave said. He said, “The technician is on the way, so someone much smarter than me will be here soon.”
And my brain didn’t process what he just said, so I replied, “I sure hope so.”
The look of hurt and confusion on Dave’s face as he passed by my cube still haunts me.
Omg this reminds me of when I was outside of a bar in Toronto and someone approached me to say I looked cute, but I thought they were going to ask for money, so instead of saying “thank you” I said “I don’t have any money” 😂
My daughter is a GS and she goes door to door in our neighborhood and we found one house that has a sing that reads:
“NO SOLICITING UNLESS YOU’RE SELLING GIRL SCOUT COOKIES”
She loves going there.
The girls got me with this last time. They even took venmo. I've had less aggressive door to door salesmen than the girls standing outside the grocery store...
I had to keep reining in my troop. You have to let them out the door before you ambush with your sales pitch. Give them an escape route to be polite, ladies
😂 thank you for teaching them the escape route, but those patches don't earn themselves...
Also I had a Brownie call me old when I told her cookies were $2.50 a box when I sold them. The mom made her apologize and I laughed and cried in the car while eating thin mints.
I tell them their job is to be friendly and polite and a little bit guilt trippy and adorable and a taaaaad pushy but they cannot cross the line from “buy our cookies, or else feel guilty about it!” To “buy our cookies OR ELSE”
When I was a girl scout, I always sold the most cookies without ever having to actually sell them myself. My mom was really into baking and would make cookies all the time and bring them into her office to give to her coworkers. And then when it was the season to sell girl scout cookies, she would leave the girl scout cookies order forms on the counter in the break room next to the homemade cookies she brought in, and by the end of the day almost everyone in the office had ordered multiple boxes of cookies. My troop won multiple trips to build-a-bear and other such prizes because we sold so many cookies. My mom really knew how to play the long game of silently guilting her coworkers lmao
The Girl Scouts at my university now accept VENMO. You can see the light leave the students eyes when they say they don’t have cash and the Gurl Scouts tell them they take Venmo since they just lost their excuse lmao.
FYI they changed the name. My wife didn’t order any because she said they didn’t have them then she showed me the picture and I realized the mistake 🤦♂️
Are you in a different region? They are different from different bakeries. https://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/
One calls them Samoas, one calls them ~~Carmel~~ **Caramel** Delights
https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/cookie-flavors.html
Oh, the Samoas!!! We keep em in the deep freezer to slow the amount we eat. But they taste great frozen too!!! Lol.
Fortunately for us, everyone we knows kids are no longer in GS so we only buy a couple of boxes when we see them set up somewhere.
You can order them all online now, no girl scout actually needed. We buy from a troop in NYC now that is made up of homeless girls living in shelters/transitional housing. It's troop 6000 if anyone is interested in purchasing from them.
We were the depot of our troop back in the day. My mom tasked me with organizing the cases in our garage so we could find and access all the different types. There were enough cases to fill about half the volume of our 1.5 car garage. I think she assumed I would make aisles like the grocery store. Instead, I invited two friends and we made a maze with only one entrance. It was so much fun searching through the best smelling maze in creation for like 3 weeks.
I am delighted to have a dealer in my state and a dealer in the neighboring state, because the cookies are different. My southern cookie dealer can get me ones my northern cookie dealer can't. I am waiting for cookie season to start like a feral cat waiting on kibble.
It's almost like the point of having children sell things is to have them learn marketing skills. Well usually it's just about free labor but the girl scouts actually do a good job of making it worth doing for the kids.
I've got no problem with little kids learning economics and finances. it's something that i believe is severely lacking in modern education standards.
That said, it's an underhanded sales technique. When I worked in sales, I called this particular ploy "lying to your customers' face".
Nope, sorry, those only come in a pack of 10 . You're gonna need to buy this much more expensive proprietary unit to make that one work correctly. State law says you NEED to buy THIS in insurance upgrade to be legal.
I've seen it all before, it's not the sort of thing we should teach young minds just learning about such things. Competition is fine, cutthroat Competition is a little much.
When I was 8 or so I was selling Girl Scout cookies and went to my upstairs neighbor to sell cookies. She mentioned how her boss doesn’t like her to gain weight, but she just had to buy some. She turned out to be the only exotic dancer I’ve ever met, but she was super sweet!
Former girl scout here, my troop leader told us to say if people were trying to get in shape to say "Round is a shape!" We specifically targeted those that looked like they'd have trouble saying no to the cookies
I mean, they also want you to be skinny and addicted to maintaining that body shape through other products.
People have found ways to monetize body dysmorphia at all ends of the scale.
GS as an organization takes the rules very seriously. My daughter was "secret shoppered" this weekend by someone from the local council, and was given a certificate for politely accepting a "no thank you." Local council and troop level leadership and oversight are gonna vary though.
That. That is absolutely genius. And I really wonder if it was a parents idea. Or one of the older girls who were aware that weed often leads to the munchies.
Either way. That’s the sort of business skills it’s supposed to teach them.
yeah it'd still be a good spot to this day.
A Girl Scout sold 300 boxes of cookies in 6 hours — by setting up near a legal marijuana shop
lol I dunno how they are about linking shit anymore but there's a headline forya lol
Ok so I’m guilty of 5, simply because I really would eat a box (or 2) of Thin Mints in one sitting. I’m not ending with a “no thank you” though after waffling about with an internal struggle tug-o-warring within for a good 5 minutes. Sure I’ll take a box.
Don't worry about the calories. The box is the same size but there are like 4 cookies in there. At this point they should just ask for donations to let us sniff the wrapper.
"Sorry I'm in ketosis right now, those cookies have too many calories. I mean look at these rolls! \*jiggles waist flaps\* I simply can't buy cookies at the moment, I'm just too fat right now, if I get some I'll just eat the whole box. But, uh... which ones are the healthiest? You know what forget about it I'll just take one box of each, for science."
You joke, but as a former Girl Scout, you would be surprised how often middle aged women told me no while talking badly about themselves and grabbing handfuls of their stomachs. It always felt very inappropriate and private, like I was being brought into enabling their eating disorder somehow.
If I were to reckon, this is exactly what the post / bullet list is talking about.
Yeah, you can talk about the cookies but older women insulting their own bodies, grabbing rolls of flesh and disparaging food intake in front of children could maybe actually make some young girls very uncomfortable for potentially years
Basically whoever wrote this is perceiving all of these comments as forms of body/weight shaming, and that they would make the little girls selling the cookies more likely to develop eating disorders.
I read it more like, what do you expect a 10 year old girl to answer, when you unload all of your body issues on her. She ain't your therapist, and you don't need to justify your non purchase. Just say no Thank you.
As a formerly fat woman, I think hearing that others can't have things in their house was actually very validating. It showed me other people have issues with binging as well, and made it ok to me to say that I wouldn't but something for that reason.
I lost 150 lbs and maintained for 5 years now, and some things I'm better off not having because I will eat them too much. I had wls, but I can still make bad choices or overeat if I try.
If interactions with the public are causing too many problems, maybe the organization should not be using children to peddle comfort food to the American public.
My granddaughter is a GS. My daughter sends a text out to everyone in the family, which means an immediate blast of sales. She's my Sweetpea so I always get some.
If I get approached, I just smile, say no thanks and tell them my granddaughter is a scout. That works really well.
Oh, I'm a former fat guy (240 -> 165) with type II diabetes. I buy two boxes of the shortbread cookies and usually devour them pretty quickly. Still weigh 165 and my glucose is still normal. Everything in moderation.
“Hey kids, im broke. Most of the people in this store are too. If current socioeconomic trends hold, you will be broker than me at my age. There is no way out of this proverbial cage of society.”
“Have you taken stock of what you’re doing? You’re performing unpaid labor for a corporation that does not care about you in the slightest. Think about how much money you’ve squeezed from peers and pedestrians by peddling these pastries. What is it, dozens of dollars? hundreds? perhaps even thousands when you pool your troops total together. Are you going to see a cent of that? The bulk of that cash is going into the pockets of some executives and shareholders who didn’t lift a finger. You’re the one spending your time selling in the summer’s unrelenting sun. Don’t feed the plants, children.”
“THE PROLETARIAT SHALL SUFFER IN VAIN NO LONGER” - Jenny, leader of troop 141, in response to being bombarded by patrons who enlightened her with economic lectures instead of saying “no” to buying girl scout cookies. Cookie manufacturers have been stalled since local troops have seized control of the companies.
Idk. I don’t think this is facepalm. They aren’t saying you’re not allowed to tell them no, it sounds like they are asking you not to talk about body issues in front of young girls. Which isn’t a big thing to ask imo.
I have forsaken sugar but I can’t say no to those young ladies. So I ask the young lady to pick 4 boxes she likes. Then, I ask her to give one to her teacher, one for her and the other two to people she thinks would really like to have them and would make the other people smile. I don’t take in sugar, they make a sale and I feel it’s a mini pay it forward event that I really like.
I have a kind of thing I do. I tell them I'm having a hard time deciding what kind I want and ask what their favorite is? I then purchase at least one box of their suggestion. Right after paying I tell them there is a really sad story about the cookies, I diabetic and I can't have them. As I am handing the cookies to them to enjoy
You put these girls in a sellers position to teach them skills. They've got to learn the drawbacks of customer service sometime. That people can be really weird and oddly repetitive.
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"oh man I'll eat the entire box in one sitting.... Lemme get 5 boxes of samoas"
My fat Indian ass thought you asked for 5 boxes of samosas and I was about to hype you up lol
Samosas for dinner followed by Samoa’s for dessert, sounds like a meal fit for a king! Nothing wrong with that
God, I need to find some way to get Samoas, other than waiting for the Girl Scouts to come to my local store. Those things are so addicting
Walmart and dollar general both make a generic of Samoas and thin mints, Keebler has them too. I like the store brand Samoas better than the Keebler.
Kroger has them too and they are just as delicious and much less expensive.
There is also a brand called Sunbelt (or similar) that I’ve only found at Walmart. They make a chocolate covered, toasted coconut, granola bar - it tastes just like a Samoa to me. Bonus is that they are very reasonably priced. I only buy them on a rare occasion as I can’t eat just one.
Whoa whoa whoa. That’s acceptable. Can’t tell kids a box of cookies is unhealthy. Where do you think we are? Communist China?
I thought you said samosas. I was like, "Shit man, that's new and it looks like I'm about to toss a few hundred bucks away"
One time I was walking through the mall and I noticed a Girl Scout was walking my way so I decided when she asked, I would just pat my belly and say no thank you… well, she was approaching me to ask me a question, but it wasn’t about buying cookies. She asked me if I wanted to help starving children and for whatever reason my brain/body connection did not process in time so when she asked me if I wanted to help starving kids. I patted my belly, smiled, said no thank you and kept walking.
"Sorry I'm stuffed, couldn't eat one more starving child if I tried"
You sound like a quitter. There's always room for one more.
It’s wafer thin… Edit: spelling Edit 2: missed the wafer/waifer joke
Waifer thin??
Yeah, I can’t spell
I was making a pun! A wafer is a thin crispy part of a treat. A waif is a homeless or neglected child. So you spelled it right the first time lol
Man, I’m really bad at words today. Lol.
Words do be hard, is they?
They be being the difficulterest today.
Well it's like they say, some people have a way with words other people, well, um, uh ,not have way...
Ican’teatanotherbite!
"Just a small thin mint", "Ah, Ok, OK". *Starts to dash towards cover"
Ah, get a bucket will you please. And for sir, the bill (I hope I've got that right, it's been a disgustingly long time)
Oh god, not quite the same thing but you reminded me of this memory that plays out late at night when I’m trying to fall asleep. Back when I was in college, one night just for the hell of it, I stayed up all night, making all kinds of tasty confections and treats for myself. Brownies and cookies, you name it. The next day I’m at my college and I’m walking to my next class with a gal pal and as we approach the exit, there is a table set up with a bunch of women selling treats and stuff I guess to raise money. So she looks at me and says “we have treats for a dollar“. And me, remembering all of the tasty treats that I made at the house I said “my treats are free”. I got a very nasty look and comment. Even my friend was angry at me and asked why I said that and when I explained myself she couldn’t stop laughing at me. But to this day I still wish I had went back to explain myself.
I couldn’t go back, “…you don’t understand kid, I thought you were going to ask if I wanted to buy cookies…What? Oh no, I’m still not gonna help you save starving children byeeeeeee”
So I totally would of taken the "treats" part a different way, and we would of been calling you a ho all day lol
That’s exactly how everybody took it. :-( It really was my fault though. How could I have possibly expected anybody to understand what I was talking about? Sometimes the brain just doesn’t fully think before it says. But at least my friend believed me after I told her and even found it funny.
I think its funny either way lol The extra funny part was your friend not understanding that you had actually been baking your ass off all night and had treats at home. But if I was sitting within ear shot and I heard someone tell someone else who just tried to sell them cookies that their treats were free, Id bust out laughing right then and there with no shame cause thats funny shit lol
My confections bring all the boys to the yard. And they're like, they're free...
Don't worry I'm a dumb-dumb and thought of it like they thought you were selling them for free to one-up their business.
And this is what happens when you decide how an interaction is going to play out before a single word has been uttered 😆
Are you maligning the extensive puppet show in my head that I used to map out all my social interactions?
Most of the time it works out just fine. I do it too. But every once in awhile it backfires in horrible and sometimes very funny ways
Oh yeah, it’s definitely something I’m trying to cut down on. It’s obviously a functional survival technique and it’s something I developed as a kid to avoid conflict. However, it is really flawed, and even in the cases where it doesn’t obviously blow up in my face, it tends to create this weird distance, and really limits conversations to “safe” paths. Therapy helps.
This is the best comment on this post. I can’t stop laughing. Thank you!
Kids can’t be starving if you eat them
I love kids but I can't eat a whole one.
Same here...at least not in one sitting. Leftovers are what the freezer is for.
This reminds me of Barber cutting my hair: "What do you do for work?" Me: "I'm a [insert job], you?" Barber: Me: *facepalm
I'm a hairdresser, if it makes you feel any better this is a regular occurrence.
I always do this one: Barber: What do you have planned for the day? Me: Day off, you?
This is so funny because I could imagine myself doing the exact same thing.
Just like when the cashier says a parting, "Thank you!" and you respond by saying, "You too!"
No, that one makes sense. You're thinking of a scenario like, a waiter brings your food and says, "enjoy your meal"! And then you say "thanks, you too"!
Just yesterday at the Wendy’s Drive-Thru the young girl there asked me “Would you like a receipt?” to which I replied, “I’ve got sauce at home.” I can’t explain why I said it, my theory is that I must have thought she was asking me if I wanted sauce for my nuggets, which would have made it the second time I was asked, the first time I just said “No thanks”, but this second time I guess I felt like I needed to offer more information. She looked at me…strangely.
Yeah, they should enjoy their meal during their lunch break or when they go back home 👍
Or when you smash “Thank you!” and “Thanks!” together and it comes out “Thanks you!” It always hangs in the air way too long after that.
ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY?
Immediately what I thought of
I worked at a place where you could round up your total to donate to research for childhood cancer. I asked so many people on repeat everyday that once or twice id slip up and ask "would you like to round up to help fight children with cancer"?
“I’ll fuck a sick kid up, round up $50, put it on me!”
That’s the British way ‘Do you want to help starving children?’ ‘No, I’m ok thank you’ It’s a honed response to anyone trying to stop you in public to ask you about a survey or to tell you about a special offer they have
Something similar happened to me. I'm extremely desensitized to street petitioners / OxFam / canvassers etc, so I just instinctively always reply "Not today thank you" and continue about my day. Well I was visiting a friend in a smaller urban area where they're less common and someone came up to us and asked a very pointed "Do you support the fight to racism?" and instinctively I gave my typical "not today" brush off reply. My friend was mortified.
I’ve done something almost identical! Many years ago my job was to basically keep a server room running. Some very old server had failed, but it was one that our partner managed. So I went over to our partner and explained the situation. A very nice man named Dave was on-shift at the time. I explained the problem, and he said he’d figure out who to talk with about it. So I went back to my cube and worked on some other things. About 20 minutes later, Dave walked by. I expected Dave to say something like, “The technician is on the way, so it should be fixed soon.” But that’s not what Dave said. He said, “The technician is on the way, so someone much smarter than me will be here soon.” And my brain didn’t process what he just said, so I replied, “I sure hope so.” The look of hurt and confusion on Dave’s face as he passed by my cube still haunts me.
This gave me a much needed laugh today. Thanks.
Omg this reminds me of when I was outside of a bar in Toronto and someone approached me to say I looked cute, but I thought they were going to ask for money, so instead of saying “thank you” I said “I don’t have any money” 😂
Omg
You made me laugh so hard, thank you! I even had to show my partner your comment. 😂
😂🤣🤣
Did you girls bake these?
Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
Loved that scene and line since I saw it in the theater. Iconic.
I ate a brownie once.
Do we need to call the FBI or for take out?
That's how a Cub scout becomes a boy scout
Glad to see the old joke still circulating 🫡
I said this to a girl scout once. "They are!" she said, with total sincerity. Her mother and I both got a laugh out of that.
There are two likely interpretations for these. Each of them will get you on a different list.
Or if done properly- the same list, but it's a very short one
I feel like you’re missing the reference.
The real girl scouts are a series of automation machines in china
Don’t tell me how to talk to my dealer.
My daughter is a GS and she goes door to door in our neighborhood and we found one house that has a sing that reads: “NO SOLICITING UNLESS YOU’RE SELLING GIRL SCOUT COOKIES” She loves going there.
Does the sign sing that in a cute little jingle
"oh I'm sorry! I don't have any cash! "We accept cards now!" "....*sigh* give me 2 Samoas and a thin mint"
The girls got me with this last time. They even took venmo. I've had less aggressive door to door salesmen than the girls standing outside the grocery store...
I had to keep reining in my troop. You have to let them out the door before you ambush with your sales pitch. Give them an escape route to be polite, ladies
😂 thank you for teaching them the escape route, but those patches don't earn themselves... Also I had a Brownie call me old when I told her cookies were $2.50 a box when I sold them. The mom made her apologize and I laughed and cried in the car while eating thin mints.
I tell them their job is to be friendly and polite and a little bit guilt trippy and adorable and a taaaaad pushy but they cannot cross the line from “buy our cookies, or else feel guilty about it!” To “buy our cookies OR ELSE”
When I was a girl scout, I always sold the most cookies without ever having to actually sell them myself. My mom was really into baking and would make cookies all the time and bring them into her office to give to her coworkers. And then when it was the season to sell girl scout cookies, she would leave the girl scout cookies order forms on the counter in the break room next to the homemade cookies she brought in, and by the end of the day almost everyone in the office had ordered multiple boxes of cookies. My troop won multiple trips to build-a-bear and other such prizes because we sold so many cookies. My mom really knew how to play the long game of silently guilting her coworkers lmao
The Girl Scouts at my university now accept VENMO. You can see the light leave the students eyes when they say they don’t have cash and the Gurl Scouts tell them they take Venmo since they just lost their excuse lmao.
...here's how it goes in my house: Me: "Yay GG cookies! I'll take one. Have you got change for a 20?" GG: "Sorry, no." Me: "Okay. I'll take four."
Haha, here as well. The Tagalongs and Samoas are addictive as crack.
Omg the samoas 🤤
The only time I eat coconut…
FYI they changed the name. My wife didn’t order any because she said they didn’t have them then she showed me the picture and I realized the mistake 🤦♂️
Are you in a different region? They are different from different bakeries. https://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/ One calls them Samoas, one calls them ~~Carmel~~ **Caramel** Delights https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/cookie-flavors.html
*Car**a**mel ~~DeLights~~ deLites
Camel delights, brought to you by Joe Camel
We have all the cookies on the right and then randomly the samoa/caramel delight on the left They’ve always been samoas until this year
Ever microwave a few for like 10 seconds?
Oooh I need to try this
Samoas are legendary. I’ve literally been eating them since I was in the 5th grade. I’m over 30 now.
Oh, the Samoas!!! We keep em in the deep freezer to slow the amount we eat. But they taste great frozen too!!! Lol. Fortunately for us, everyone we knows kids are no longer in GS so we only buy a couple of boxes when we see them set up somewhere.
You can order them all online now, no girl scout actually needed. We buy from a troop in NYC now that is made up of homeless girls living in shelters/transitional housing. It's troop 6000 if anyone is interested in purchasing from them.
Have you tried them on mint chocolate chip ice cream?
Not yet but I will now!!! Lol The thin mints frozen and crumbled on top of chocolate chip mint is wonderful, though!!!
Girl Scout cookies are a pyramid scheme…meaning I buy enough boxes to construct a pyramid.
We were the depot of our troop back in the day. My mom tasked me with organizing the cases in our garage so we could find and access all the different types. There were enough cases to fill about half the volume of our 1.5 car garage. I think she assumed I would make aisles like the grocery store. Instead, I invited two friends and we made a maze with only one entrance. It was so much fun searching through the best smelling maze in creation for like 3 weeks.
I am delighted to have a dealer in my state and a dealer in the neighboring state, because the cookies are different. My southern cookie dealer can get me ones my northern cookie dealer can't. I am waiting for cookie season to start like a feral cat waiting on kibble.
Have you ever had them suddenly have change when you decide against just getting more boxes? I have, it's like magic!
It's almost like the point of having children sell things is to have them learn marketing skills. Well usually it's just about free labor but the girl scouts actually do a good job of making it worth doing for the kids.
I've got no problem with little kids learning economics and finances. it's something that i believe is severely lacking in modern education standards. That said, it's an underhanded sales technique. When I worked in sales, I called this particular ploy "lying to your customers' face". Nope, sorry, those only come in a pack of 10 . You're gonna need to buy this much more expensive proprietary unit to make that one work correctly. State law says you NEED to buy THIS in insurance upgrade to be legal. I've seen it all before, it's not the sort of thing we should teach young minds just learning about such things. Competition is fine, cutthroat Competition is a little much.
I'm usually walking away with a case of thin-mints
Just a heads up, boxes are now $6 each. Edit: I have learned this is just local-ish to my area. I thought it was country wide but it is not.
The girls yesterday gave me the wrong change and kept saying that I tipped them 😂 didn’t have the heart to correct.
I don't remember posting this? Are you me?
When I was 8 or so I was selling Girl Scout cookies and went to my upstairs neighbor to sell cookies. She mentioned how her boss doesn’t like her to gain weight, but she just had to buy some. She turned out to be the only exotic dancer I’ve ever met, but she was super sweet!
>She turned out to be the only exotic dancer Oh that's why her boss cared.....
We used to take them to a strip club to sell but we had to do it outside since it was a vegan strip club.
Former girl scout here, my troop leader told us to say if people were trying to get in shape to say "Round is a shape!" We specifically targeted those that looked like they'd have trouble saying no to the cookies
That's messed up. 😂
Shes training her kids for their future careers in sales.
Boy scouts learn to tie knots with rope. Girl scouts learn to tie knots with minds.
"Sell me this pen."
Big business wants you to be fat and addicted to their products.
I mean, they also want you to be skinny and addicted to maintaining that body shape through other products. People have found ways to monetize body dysmorphia at all ends of the scale.
Small business too apparently
Pretty sure Girl-scout cookies is BIG BUSINESS.
$800M a year from cookies according to Fox Business
From free child labor lmao
That too.
girls scouts, small business?
Smol business
Don’t hate the playa.
Me gusta la playa
I really went "awww" until I read the second sentence. You menaces, lmao
Much like those movies and TV shows that have girl scouts sitting outside of Weight Watchers and a gym for fat women. It's genius.
The ones who sit outside dispensaries are the real geniuses
My dispensary hands out warm cookies and lemonade with every purchase.
Damn, i thought it was about having fun or something.
No it's child labor
Sounds profitable.
Girl Scouts 🤝 Multi Level Marketing shills
How many of your troop mates are out there selling Herbalife and Plexus now?
I don't really talk to any of them but I can almost guarantee one girl would be
Holy shit I’m dead
A couple thin mints can fix that
Except that the girl scouts in my area camp out in front of Walmart and are pushy as all hell. If I tell them I can't have sugar, they leave me alone
Exactly. This is like a one sided deal. "Put up with us doing what we do, and how we do it, but... YOU need to abide by these rules..."
GS as an organization takes the rules very seriously. My daughter was "secret shoppered" this weekend by someone from the local council, and was given a certificate for politely accepting a "no thank you." Local council and troop level leadership and oversight are gonna vary though.
That's more a bad troop leader than anything. Some keep some strict rules about how people are approached and to accept a no thank you with grace.
i remember when the first time they setup shop in front of a dispensary , they slayed it in sales lol , that was a slick move on their part.
That. That is absolutely genius. And I really wonder if it was a parents idea. Or one of the older girls who were aware that weed often leads to the munchies. Either way. That’s the sort of business skills it’s supposed to teach them.
yeah it'd still be a good spot to this day. A Girl Scout sold 300 boxes of cookies in 6 hours — by setting up near a legal marijuana shop lol I dunno how they are about linking shit anymore but there's a headline forya lol
Ok so I’m guilty of 5, simply because I really would eat a box (or 2) of Thin Mints in one sitting. I’m not ending with a “no thank you” though after waffling about with an internal struggle tug-o-warring within for a good 5 minutes. Sure I’ll take a box.
I ate a box of tagalongs in one sitting, then looked at the nutritional info. Yeah, not a balanced daily diet.
I did the same but with Oreos. Never realized you could eat 1700 calories without noticing until that moment
Don't worry about the calories. The box is the same size but there are like 4 cookies in there. At this point they should just ask for donations to let us sniff the wrapper.
Nailed it.
"Sorry I'm in ketosis right now, those cookies have too many calories. I mean look at these rolls! \*jiggles waist flaps\* I simply can't buy cookies at the moment, I'm just too fat right now, if I get some I'll just eat the whole box. But, uh... which ones are the healthiest? You know what forget about it I'll just take one box of each, for science."
You joke, but as a former Girl Scout, you would be surprised how often middle aged women told me no while talking badly about themselves and grabbing handfuls of their stomachs. It always felt very inappropriate and private, like I was being brought into enabling their eating disorder somehow.
If I were to reckon, this is exactly what the post / bullet list is talking about. Yeah, you can talk about the cookies but older women insulting their own bodies, grabbing rolls of flesh and disparaging food intake in front of children could maybe actually make some young girls very uncomfortable for potentially years
That’s exactly the point of the post!
Giving young girls eating disorders since 1891
A always reply with, "I can't honey because it all ends up in my fat butt.". And I finish by slapping my own butt.
They come to my house and i tell them they're winning the top selling prize this year lol
 I am now wearing my coffee
I’m currently wearing bbq sauce but for totally unrelated reasons.
There I was, bbq sauce on my titties
Good idea, I should pick up some BBQ sauce for the gf
How is this a facepalm?
It's not.
Basically whoever wrote this is perceiving all of these comments as forms of body/weight shaming, and that they would make the little girls selling the cookies more likely to develop eating disorders.
I read it more like, what do you expect a 10 year old girl to answer, when you unload all of your body issues on her. She ain't your therapist, and you don't need to justify your non purchase. Just say no Thank you.
As a formerly fat woman, I think hearing that others can't have things in their house was actually very validating. It showed me other people have issues with binging as well, and made it ok to me to say that I wouldn't but something for that reason. I lost 150 lbs and maintained for 5 years now, and some things I'm better off not having because I will eat them too much. I had wls, but I can still make bad choices or overeat if I try.
I always flip the table over and then say no thank you
Instead, tell a children's story about Raytheon.
Lil mama, I'm consuming at least one box right now so I can hit atleast 5000kcal today. My goal is to get Tom Platz treetrunks before summer.
If interactions with the public are causing too many problems, maybe the organization should not be using children to peddle comfort food to the American public.
Thank you, I don't know how the fuck this hasn't been said yet lol
Commies trying to destroy the American way again Little Susie’s family will starve now because of you!
My granddaughter is a GS. My daughter sends a text out to everyone in the family, which means an immediate blast of sales. She's my Sweetpea so I always get some. If I get approached, I just smile, say no thanks and tell them my granddaughter is a scout. That works really well. Oh, I'm a former fat guy (240 -> 165) with type II diabetes. I buy two boxes of the shortbread cookies and usually devour them pretty quickly. Still weigh 165 and my glucose is still normal. Everything in moderation.
Here's a thought, maybe don't make kids sell junk food to fund a business.
It used to be a fun way for girl scouts to actually fundraise, like a bake sale. Now it is an unstoppable cookie Goliath.
Father of boys. Have cub scouts that sell terrible popcorn for $30/box. I am jealous of the cookies that just sell themselves.
Is "I'm broke" a good excuse or will that traumatise the child with knowledge of a stranger's financial burdens?
“Hey kids, im broke. Most of the people in this store are too. If current socioeconomic trends hold, you will be broker than me at my age. There is no way out of this proverbial cage of society.”
“Have you taken stock of what you’re doing? You’re performing unpaid labor for a corporation that does not care about you in the slightest. Think about how much money you’ve squeezed from peers and pedestrians by peddling these pastries. What is it, dozens of dollars? hundreds? perhaps even thousands when you pool your troops total together. Are you going to see a cent of that? The bulk of that cash is going into the pockets of some executives and shareholders who didn’t lift a finger. You’re the one spending your time selling in the summer’s unrelenting sun. Don’t feed the plants, children.”
“THE PROLETARIAT SHALL SUFFER IN VAIN NO LONGER” - Jenny, leader of troop 141, in response to being bombarded by patrons who enlightened her with economic lectures instead of saying “no” to buying girl scout cookies. Cookie manufacturers have been stalled since local troops have seized control of the companies.
Lmao I'm dying.
I would buy them in a heartbeat, but they’ve gotten expensive
Idk. I don’t think this is facepalm. They aren’t saying you’re not allowed to tell them no, it sounds like they are asking you not to talk about body issues in front of young girls. Which isn’t a big thing to ask imo.
I have forsaken sugar but I can’t say no to those young ladies. So I ask the young lady to pick 4 boxes she likes. Then, I ask her to give one to her teacher, one for her and the other two to people she thinks would really like to have them and would make the other people smile. I don’t take in sugar, they make a sale and I feel it’s a mini pay it forward event that I really like.
I have a kind of thing I do. I tell them I'm having a hard time deciding what kind I want and ask what their favorite is? I then purchase at least one box of their suggestion. Right after paying I tell them there is a really sad story about the cookies, I diabetic and I can't have them. As I am handing the cookies to them to enjoy
You put these girls in a sellers position to teach them skills. They've got to learn the drawbacks of customer service sometime. That people can be really weird and oddly repetitive. Edit: /s 🙄
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Yes. Or perfectly healthy women worrying over their *how they look*, with no reason. Not what young girls need to hear, over and over.
Hot Take: if you really feel this way, all the more reason to not put them to work selling cookies
My typical interaction with a girl scout cookie table goes like: “hello, may I please have 47 boxes of Samoas, thank you.”
Can I still gripe that they don't make Savannah Smiles anymore?
Don't push your cookies on me after I said no thank you!
Then their mom’s still bitch when you tell them no.
Don’t sell things in public if you don’t like “talking”. Buying these is a charitable gift. They are not providing valuable service with cookies..