GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME!!!!

Breckgirl · March 2011

I was a Girl Scout and a troop leader and I know how hard these girls work to raise money selling cookies. I always made an effort to do my fair share to buy cookies when I got older. About 10 years ago I was approched by a girl scout to buy cookies outside of a local grocery store. I had just spent 6 weeks losing 15 pounds and didn't want girl scout cookies in the house to tempt me but I also wanted to support the girls. About the sametime I was going to decline their offer, a mom and her two little girls walked by and one of the little girls asked her mom if they could buy some cookies. The mom looked sadly at the table stacked high with cookies and told her girls that they couldn't buy the cookies because they had just spent all their money on groceries. I Looked at the mom and the girls and said, "I was a girl scout and I know how hard it is to make money selling cookies. I can't eat the cookies but I want to help out these girls. Would you and your girls help me out by letting me buy you some girl scout cookies? I would feel so much better having helped these girls meet their goals." The little girls smiled and looked quitely at their mom and their mom looked at the girls being so good about not begging her to say yes. I looked at the mom smiled and she agreed. I paid for three boxes while the girls quickly chose their cookies. They both thanked me and I went home feeling very good about my Girl Scout Cookies purchase.

Now every year I stop at the table outside of the grocery selling Girl Scout Cookies and pay for three boxes of cookies to be given to any child who's parents can't afford to buy they cookies. The girls are always excited to do this for me.

So, this year ,if you don't want to wreck your eating habits but want to help out the Girl Scouts, you might give my system a try.

LuckyLeprechaun · March 2011

I clicked expecting the normal food porn descriptions of your enjoyment of samoas....but got a tear in my eye as I read your touching story.

I WILL be doing this.

findingabetterme · March 2011

We (NH/VT) have a program called gift of caring...it is where people can pay for a box of cookies but not take a box...then the troop takes all the gift of caring packages and donates them to a good cause.
One of my troops is donating to a soldier in Afghanistan that we have a correspondance with and another troop is donating to the local hospital children's cancer ward.
It's a great cause and wont ruin your diet!

Nikstergirl · March 2011

I love that idea too!!! I am buying some from a friend this year but I told my kids that we would be "rationing" them out so Mom doesn't eat the whole box before anyone else sees them! If I get two cookies, they get two each... seems fair to me! I love supporting the Girl AND Boy Scouts as I was a Girl Scout myself and a Boy Scout leader for several years... both are great organizations! The Boy Scouts sell the popcorn.. I give the kids the microwave kind they like and I get a bag of the air popper kind for all of us (mostly me!). It lasts a lot longer than the cookies!!! LOL!
:flowerforyou:

Breckgirl · March 2011

We (NH/VT) have a program called gift of caring...it is where people can pay for a box of cookies but not take a box...then the troop takes all the gift of caring packages and donates them to a good cause.
One of my troops is donating to a soldier in Afghanistan that we have a correspondance with and another troop is donating to the local hospital children's cancer ward.
It's a great cause and wont ruin your diet!

That's wonderful!

nomorefatbitch · March 2011

That is a wonderful idea.

Breckgirl · March 2011

I clicked expecting the normal food porn descriptions of your enjoyment of samoas....but got a tear in my eye as I read your touching story.

I WILL be doing this.

I wish everyone could have seen those two little girls clutching their cookies and beeming from ear to ear. They were precious.

Tamiash · March 2011

Thanks for the warm and fuzzy feeling. I betcha the next time I go by I will think of the story and I hope i'm blessed enough to have a little girl or boy asking their mom for cookies.

ZebraHead · March 2011

I too have just made 'donations' in these situations. The unexpected gesture (for me as well as them) seems to charge the air.

labgirl3 · March 2011

Thanks for sharing DeAnn - wonderful story! I am a GS leader too, and we just got done selling cookies. I totally understand those that don't want to purchase cookies for themselves, and we've had many people donate boxes or money towards our council's Operation Cookie - we sent over 50,000 boxes of cookies to soldiers overseas last year! In fact, here's a story that one of the Leiutenants shared with a girl from our Service Unit at her cookie booth:

First of all, let me thank you and the Girl Scouts for the support you provide for our forward deployed troops. It was very nice to be able to go to the snack locker and find a nice selection of Girl Scout cookies. My entire unit took great pleasure on snacking on cookies that reminded us of home.

The unit I was with was responsible for collecting evidence from “Outside the Wire”, associated with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), weapon caches’ and miscellaneous attacks on Coalition Forces. The easiest way to describe it is like CSI Baghdad. We were in fact based out of Camp Victory , Baghdad . We were a Multi National, Joint Service Task Force, which means that we had Americans, British, Australians, Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines, working together in the counter IED fight.

Part of our daily duties, included going “Outside the Wire” when rocket arrays were found by the Iraqis. These arrays were usually pointed at our base. Typically they included several rockets, and if launched, there was a strong possibility they would cause casualties.

One day in particular, late last summer (2009), one of our Air Force teams stationed in Baghdad area was called out because one of the local Iraqi Army squads had located a rocket array of 107mm rockets. Our guys went out to recover them and ran into some issues with the Officer in charge of the Iraqi soldiers. They didn’t want to relinquish control of one of the rockets they had recovered. We didn’t like leaving found ordinance with the Iraqis, because there was no guarantee that the bombs and rockets that were not recovered, wouldn’t wind up in the hands of the bad guys again.

There was some bantering going on between our team leader and the Iraqi officer. He really didn’t want to give us that rocket, for whatever reason. One of our guys was thinking outside the box (of Girl Scout cookies it turns out). They had some boxes of Girl Scout cookies in the armored truck they traveled in. He retrieved a box of the lemon cookies and offered a cookie to some of the Iraqi soldiers. Apparently, the Iraqis were quite impressed with our American delicacies. They were asked if they would like the whole box and they said they would. Our troops said they could have the rest of the box of cookies if they would give us the last rocket that they were holding on to. After some deliberation, the Iraqis agreed to trade the box of cookies for the rocket.

Our guys were all pleased and amused with their trade. Our guys posed for pictures with the Iraqis and one of the Iraqi Soldiers can clearly be seen holding a box of the cookies and munching on one. We sent the picture up the chain of command and everyone got a giggle out of it. The caption read “The Girl Scout’s, Cookies for Bombs Program”. Our guys have to come up with some creative thinking sometimes in the war zone. Your cookies, in this case, served a higher purpose. They made it possible for us to get a dangerous piece of ordinance off the streets and out of the hands of the terrorists whom wish to do us harm. I thought you’d like to know how much the cookies are appreciated, not just as comfort food, but as a valuable trading commodity.

Thanks again for the Girl Scout’s support of our troops. The cookies are really appreciated.

Respectfully Submitted,

Lt. Paul C.

Breckgirl · March 2011

Thanks for sharing DeAnn - wonderful story! I am a GS leader too, and we just got done selling cookies. I totally understand those that don't want to purchase cookies for themselves, and we've had many people donate boxes or money towards our council's Operation Cookie - we sent over 50,000 boxes of cookies to soldiers overseas last year! In fact, here's a story that one of the Leiutenants shared with a girl from our Service Unit at her cookie booth:

First of all, let me thank you and the Girl Scouts for the support you provide for our forward deployed troops. It was very nice to be able to go to the snack locker and find a nice selection of Girl Scout cookies. My entire unit took great pleasure on snacking on cookies that reminded us of home.

The unit I was with was responsible for collecting evidence from “Outside the Wire”, associated with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), weapon caches’ and miscellaneous attacks on Coalition Forces. The easiest way to describe it is like CSI Baghdad. We were in fact based out of Camp Victory , Baghdad . We were a Multi National, Joint Service Task Force, which means that we had Americans, British, Australians, Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines, working together in the counter IED fight.

Part of our daily duties, included going “Outside the Wire” when rocket arrays were found by the Iraqis. These arrays were usually pointed at our base. Typically they included several rockets, and if launched, there was a strong possibility they would cause casualties.

One day in particular, late last summer (2009), one of our Air Force teams stationed in Baghdad area was called out because one of the local Iraqi Army squads had located a rocket array of 107mm rockets. Our guys went out to recover them and ran into some issues with the Officer in charge of the Iraqi soldiers. They didn’t want to relinquish control of one of the rockets they had recovered. We didn’t like leaving found ordinance with the Iraqis, because there was no guarantee that the bombs and rockets that were not recovered, wouldn’t wind up in the hands of the bad guys again.

There was some bantering going on between our team leader and the Iraqi officer. He really didn’t want to give us that rocket, for whatever reason. One of our guys was thinking outside the box (of Girl Scout cookies it turns out). They had some boxes of Girl Scout cookies in the armored truck they traveled in. He retrieved a box of the lemon cookies and offered a cookie to some of the Iraqi soldiers. Apparently, the Iraqis were quite impressed with our American delicacies. They were asked if they would like the whole box and they said they would. Our troops said they could have the rest of the box of cookies if they would give us the last rocket that they were holding on to. After some deliberation, the Iraqis agreed to trade the box of cookies for the rocket.

Our guys were all pleased and amused with their trade. Our guys posed for pictures with the Iraqis and one of the Iraqi Soldiers can clearly be seen holding a box of the cookies and munching on one. We sent the picture up the chain of command and everyone got a giggle out of it. The caption read “The Girl Scout’s, Cookies for Bombs Program”. Our guys have to come up with some creative thinking sometimes in the war zone. Your cookies, in this case, served a higher purpose. They made it possible for us to get a dangerous piece of ordinance off the streets and out of the hands of the terrorists whom wish to do us harm. I thought you’d like to know how much the cookies are appreciated, not just as comfort food, but as a valuable trading commodity.

Thanks again for the Girl Scout’s support of our troops. The cookies are really appreciated.

Respectfully Submitted,

Lt. Paul C.

This is the best Girl Scout Cookie story ever! Now if we could settle all of our conflicks with Girl Scout Cookies the world would be a better place. Thanks so much for sharing!

GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME!!!!

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