Girl Scout cookie time! It seems like these girls are everywhere I go this year. Must be the down economy. These kids are dealing cookies like it’s nobody’s business. They get you when you walk out of the grocery store, their at the entrance to CVS, I even saw those little hustlers slinging cookies at the mall.

Dave and I walked out of Sam’s Club yesterday and this bouncy little girl with perfect curls and the cutest gapped teeth smile comes up to us.

“Hiiii!! Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies???”

Uhhh, how can you say no to that?? It’s never the ugly Girl Scout doing the sales pitch. They always get the most adorable one to win over your heart and the bigger, more experienced Girl Scout seals the deal. They work in pairs. Strength in numbers I suppose. They know how to work it.

We bought a box of Thin Mints, our favorite. I had to resist buying one of everything. Those things are $3.50 a box now and my butt does not need 6 boxes of cookies.

I was a Girl Scout for a year. In that year I went from Girl scout noob to Top Cookie Seller. I sold over 500 boxes of cookies! My Dad took some boxes to work and my Mom and I went door to door selling. (That was back in the day when you could actually go to door to door without worry of being abducted.) The three of us were an unstoppable cookie selling trio. I remember winning a boat ride on some ship in Philly and getting a special “super seller” patch for my sash. I rocked the Girl Scout world and all the other girls in my troop were envious of me. In Girl Scouts, you’re cool status is determined by how many patches you have on your sash. The “super seller” meant you were elite. The girls in my troop dreamed to get that patch. Some girls were at this for years and hadn’t received it and I waltzed and stole all their hopes and dreams.

Other than being cookie slaves, I don’t remember doing anything else in Girl scouts that was remotely fun. It was cool being the top cookie seller, but everything else pretty much sucked. I left after my year as a Brownie and didn’t look back. I was too awesome for Girl Scouts and went on to cool things like dance and gymnastics.

Next time your out and see one of these adorable girls peddling their boxes of $3.50 cookies, suck it up and buy a box. You never know; you could fulfill their dream of being Top Cookie Seller.

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