Mothers who go too far
By adamg - Thu, 05/15/2008 - 2:03pm.
Alicia recounts the woman she saw stationed for a couple of weeks at State and Congress streets:
... [T]here was a grown woman selling Girl Scout cookies from the trunk of her car. For at least a couple of weeks, I could count on seeing her courting the after work foot traffic. She'd wave boxes of Do-Si-Dos and Tagalongs as we walked by and shout, "Girl Scout cookies!" She was either the world's oldest Girl Scout, or someone looking to help her daughter earn a badge (or free trip to Europe.) I was tempted to buy some Thin Mints, which I love to eat frozen, but something just felt wrong buying Girl Scout cookies from a middle-aged woman housed in the back of her Acura.
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McSweeney's agrees
McSweeney's agrees
The kid who won the contest
The kid who won the contest for selling the most stuff for a fundraiser was always the one with a parent who worked for the Gas Company or some similar large business where everyone could be corralled into buying a box or two. it's the biggest scam in the world.
Not in my house!
Yeah, I tried the old, "Hey Ma, can you take a sheet to school and see who wants cookies?" and all I got was The Look. Sorry, if I had to hoof my carcass all over hill and dale so does this kid.
77 Mass Ave
When I was at MIT, the advisor's secretary would be out with a table every day during the selling period. She sold case after case of the cookies.
However, as the troup leader she didn't credit her daughter with the sales - she was selling them to get money for the entire group. She was pretty clear about that part.