“Children really don’t sell them anymore. The parents do it all”
That is ridiculous. The girls are staffing their booths everywhere and going door-to-door.
Sure you see the sign-up sheets at work, but I see the girls working hard at selling them. Selling to strangers gives the young girls new confidence and new abilities.
That is ridiculous. The girls are
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Who sold you your last batch of Thin Mints? Judging by the response to my frustrated tweet, I’m not the only one buying cookies from colleagues and friends who are distinctly not girls. We’ve restocked our annual supply of crispy, chocolate-coated, Girl Scout-branded disks annually for years now — and I can’t remember the last time either I or my husband was asked to buy a box of cookies by an actual Girl Scout.