Would this annoy you? Girl Scout Cookie hassle. (children, school, mother)
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Also, one other thing, if a child comes to our door selling something, we never say "no" to a child. Never. We buy something. I would never turn a child down!
I remember one time when I was out with my daughter selling the cookies. It was a Sunday so people were home watching the football games. We stopped at this one house and the lady bought 20 boxes - she was so excited she didn't mind going back home and filling up the red wagon one more time!
I give you my address and then you can send me the Samoan cookies. The caramel delight once. My favorite!
Since you don;t want them but still paying for it!
This stuff always cracks me up. I don't have a problem saying "no" and I don't know why anyone else does either. I usually buy 2 boxes a year just for the memories.
I was actually a GS leader with another woman for 2 years long ago. We didn't encourage selling and my own daughter only sold to me and the grandparents. We didn't have the most active troop ever but nobody complained .
I don't have a problem saying no. I was wondering if I should say no and then state that her attitude is the reason. The general consensus is that simply saying no is the best route. That is what I did.
My husband was a true sales person, even when he was a child Her was always the highest seller in everything. He knocked on peoples doors. Pulled out the local phone book and started going sown the list. lol. He got his whole school class to their class trip their senior year. No parents involved at all.
TOTALLY against GS policy...girls caught taking orders before the official date (I don't know when, but believe it's in Feb) lose all sales! Tell her she's not being a good Girl Scout & not being "a sister to every girl".
I don't know the case, but I would ask:
Was the girl alone or with friends?
How old was the girl?
Was she taught to not go inside anyone's house as a strict rule?
What time of day was this?
Was an adult nearby to supervise/assist?
I still maintain that if a kid is older (like over 8) then going out with friends as a team is safe, during daylight hours. If the kid is younger, or alone, them mom might follow along in the car like my mom did. Sometimes a few moms would hang out together in the car and shoot the breeze, and wait at the end of each block while we went door to door.
She was alone. It was in the afternoon. It was also 1973, a more innocent time when people didn't think the 25-year-old schoolteacher neighbor, whom they knew, would rape your little girl, strangle her, and then stash her body in a state park.
Her mother has spent the past almost-forty years getting signatures to keep her daughter's murderer in jail every time he comes up for parole.
Joan's murder probably prompted some of the "buddy" rules. The Girl Scout organization has very strict rules about conduct and it gets changed as things occur.
For example, a married couple can no longer run a troop together because of a case in which a husband was molesting the girls and the wife knew and let it happen.
She was alone. It was in the afternoon. It was also 1973, a more innocent time when people didn't think the 25-year-old schoolteacher neighbor, whom they knew, would rape your little girl, strangle her, and then stash her body in a state park.
Her mother has spent the past almost-forty years getting signatures to keep her daughter's murderer in jail every time he comes up for parole.
Joan's murder probably prompted some of the "buddy" rules. The Girl Scout organization has very strict rules about conduct and it gets changed as things occur.
For example, a married couple can no longer run a troop together because of a case in which a husband was molesting the girls and the wife knew and let it happen.
Just some dark-side GS trivia for you.
Wow...how is it possible that someone could do such an evil unthinkable thing and even be eligible for parole at all??? I'm so sickened and upset by this story, I think I'm going to go throw up.
No kidding, huh! My son is a scout too and I didn't even want to ask anyone to by anything because it was so expensive!
Really? Girl Scout cookies are $3.50 a box and you can buy just one box. Our Fall product is a bit more expensive with most things costing between $5.00 and $10.00.
I also loved the send to the military option since lots of people can't eat the cookies or nuts and candy. Donating it to our troops is a nice option.
I sold cookies (and a whole lot of other fundraising crap) in the late 70s and 80s, after this murder case. Again, if kids stick together, or a kid going out alone goes to familiar houses in a "safe zone" whether it's 1981 or 2011, this should be safe. I would not care what other parents might frown upon--you raise your kids that way YOU choose, not in response to other parents' irrational fears.
We used to have a whole street in my town of all doctors' offices, and a big building that was a "professional mall" that was all medical offices. I used to be allowed to visit all of them alone, and I used to sell hundreds of boxes of cookies (or 50/50 chances, basket of cheer chances, or Christmas candy, or wrapping paper, etc). The caveat is that you must have the cookies/merchandise with you, as visitors in a doctor's office aren't likely to want to put in an order for future delivery. they might not even live close by. They want cookies--Now. I used to pull our old "little red wagon" piled high with cookies.
In fact, when people come around with some form to fill out for "future cookies" I'm less likely to buy. But it they are pulling a wagon full of cookies, I'm likely to buy 5+ boxes. So to me as a customer "pre-selling" wouldn't fly. If someone came to me months ahead of time to pre-order Girl Scout cookies, I'd firmly say no thanks.
Wow...how is it possible that someone could do such an evil unthinkable thing and even be eligible for parole at all??? I'm so sickened and upset by this story, I think I'm going to go throw up.
AFTER this murder, "Joan's Law" was enacted that would make someone who committed a similar crime ineligible for parole. However, Joan's murderer was not covered under that law since it was prior to the law being enacted.
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