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STORIES
Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies
| The wifely person brought home a cardboard box from work yesterday. It contained some $30 worth of Girl Scout cookies. I'm now woozy from all those Thin Mints, so some of this might not make a lot of sense... Think about this: There's practically nobody in the United States that isn't approached to buy Girl Scout cookies by at least one co-worker, friend or neighbor. And when approached, because they're really great cookies, at least once each year most of us say, "Yeah, okay... I'll take a couple of boxes." But when was the last time you actually saw a Girl Scout selling Girl Scout cookies? You know what I think? I think there aren't any girls involved in Girl Scout cookie sales anymore. Girl Scout cookie sales are now run by bunch of adults who somehow got roped into this weird pyramid sales scheme dreamed up by their daughters to finance next summer's trip to camp. And if you look closely at how the cookie sales are actually done, you'll see that the ones who benefit the most, the individual Girl Scouts themselves, never see the buyer, nor do they touch either the money or the cookies. It's the parents of these Girl Scouts who are really doing all the work-- selling and distributing cookies and collecting the money-- and they aren't making a dime at it. I'm also thinking this is exactly how those Columbian drug lords got to be so powerful: they modeled their organizations on how the Girl Scouts sell cookies. So, does anyone out there know where I can score another couple of boxes of Thin Mints? |
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