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Here's a [not so] funny story about girl scout cookies...
I had recently moved here and immediately set my easy child up in girl scouts as she had had her 'bridging' ceremony in our old state. I quickly became a self nominated co-leader to a troop of about 22 girls, just to help out at meetings. The leader seemed okay and together we did some fun things. Our troop sold over 1500 boxes of girl scout cookies - we had a lot of 'power moms' in our troop of girls. Anyway, on the night before the leader had to hand in all the girls order lists, we had a HUGE snow storm, the leader was apparently strung out on something (no one knew) and threw all the cookie lists out her car window as she drove off into the night! Every list was GONE, all 1500 boxes were set to be delivered and we hadn't a clue who they went to!
I became leader, the supermoms gathered privately and removed their perfect dds' from my troop (I suppose I was guilty by association, I don't know) and created their own perfect little troop (I swear I am not bitter). I was left with about 15 girls (still a lot) Anyway, over the course of the next few weeks of reorganization and through meetings with our field rep, I discovered that our leader has a serious addiction problem and had squandered all the troop's money! All of it was gone, she even bounced checks all over town. The Council chose to keep it quiet to avoid bad press. Hahah. Well, the cookies arrived a few weeks later and I was able to incorporate the help of other moms to figure things out. Most moms recalled at least some of the people they sold to. Meanwhile, my living room was vacant as I still hadn't bought any furniture and along the main wall were stacked cases of cookies about 4' high and 6' wide and 1' out. A lot. Of. Cookies. I think our troop held about 7 or 8 cookies sales in front of all the local stores that year. It was a HUGE thing.
How about that? I've been scarred by the experience.
Hahaha
I had recently moved here and immediately set my easy child up in girl scouts as she had had her 'bridging' ceremony in our old state. I quickly became a self nominated co-leader to a troop of about 22 girls, just to help out at meetings. The leader seemed okay and together we did some fun things. Our troop sold over 1500 boxes of girl scout cookies - we had a lot of 'power moms' in our troop of girls. Anyway, on the night before the leader had to hand in all the girls order lists, we had a HUGE snow storm, the leader was apparently strung out on something (no one knew) and threw all the cookie lists out her car window as she drove off into the night! Every list was GONE, all 1500 boxes were set to be delivered and we hadn't a clue who they went to!
I became leader, the supermoms gathered privately and removed their perfect dds' from my troop (I suppose I was guilty by association, I don't know) and created their own perfect little troop (I swear I am not bitter). I was left with about 15 girls (still a lot) Anyway, over the course of the next few weeks of reorganization and through meetings with our field rep, I discovered that our leader has a serious addiction problem and had squandered all the troop's money! All of it was gone, she even bounced checks all over town. The Council chose to keep it quiet to avoid bad press. Hahah. Well, the cookies arrived a few weeks later and I was able to incorporate the help of other moms to figure things out. Most moms recalled at least some of the people they sold to. Meanwhile, my living room was vacant as I still hadn't bought any furniture and along the main wall were stacked cases of cookies about 4' high and 6' wide and 1' out. A lot. Of. Cookies. I think our troop held about 7 or 8 cookies sales in front of all the local stores that year. It was a HUGE thing.
How about that? I've been scarred by the experience.
Hahaha
