Girl Scouts of America

They follow me everywhere.
Their first outside of Safeway, then my work, and of all places outside of church! After somewhat running away from the brown and green cloth girls and those damn samoas. One Sunday as I was leaving church hoping to go unnoticed in my peripheral vision I see someone staring at me so stupidly I look… it was a girl scout. Something strange happened… I was walking toward their tent or better yet their tower of delicious, way too much calories, but oh so good cookies. I kept telling myself «ok you made it this far if anything just get 1 box and not even the samoas just get the thin mints… they have the word thin in them right?»
It was like I had no control of my mouth after I was greeted by the cute little girl and her family out of nowhere I just snapped back «CAN I HAVE 6 BOXES OF SANOMAS PLEASE!», and there I was 6 boxes of cookies in my hand 24 dollars out of my pocket but I had the HAPPIEST look on my face. And hey if anyone says anything I can just lie and say I have a big family… riight?

Never under estimate the Girls Scouts… yea they are cute and adorable with their uniforms and sashes with all those patches… but I think secretly they are planning to take over the world. killing people with kindness, good deeds and nuts/​cookies that have crack in them. Tell me why I have thirty dollars of honey roasted nuts, chocolate toffee almonds, toffee peanuts and chocolate covered mint thingies in my drawers at work… oh yea… I have two girls scouts who attend the high school I work at… sigh… well at least when I get horrible cravings (like I have had for the last two days) I can depend on my fellow women to support me with granulated sugar goodness in small nut form.
In all seriousness they have some amazing programs and are a nation wide organization that kicks major butt! There are over 300 councils and hundreds of thousands of participants in a variety of their programs/chapters…I will admit I was a brownie for a minute, but then the jumper got in the way of me playing tackle football at lunch (and mom was tired of bringing me a spare clothing set every Wednesday when we had meetings because I would fall in the mud during recess). I have several girls going to a leadership conference in December and I cannot wait to hear how it goes.
BUT I do have one criticism:
If the girl scout troops were smart, they would sell their goodies around 1 AM or so in the dorm rooms and buildings of their local universities on the weekends… I can guarantee you would make HUGE bank… and the college kiddies wouldn’t have to leave their dorm rooms for their midnight junk cravings (it would cut down the… who is going to make a run sequence which is in every stoner movie you can think of). I think it is a win win situation to be honest… just throwing it out there as a suggestion

I was a Girl Scout for 13 years, from age 5 to 18. For the most part, I have only fond memories of my scouting years. I got to make lots of friends, we got to go camping pretty often, we made crafts a lot, volunteered, learned to bake and cook, and overall I just had a lot of fun.
People might think GS campfire songs are corny, but when you’re a kid and your friends are with you, it’s not like that. Even when you’re a little bit older, you have little girls looking up to you, and you’re finally one of the older girls who gets to stay up late and lead songs.
I know the politics behind GS may be controversial, just like Boy Scouts, but for me I think it’s been a good influence in my life and I’m really grateful I was able to be a part of the organization for so many years.
«We are the Girl Scouts, the mighty might Girl Scouts, and if you can’t hear us, we’ll yell a little louder!»