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LafayetteLady -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 4:32:22 PM)
Around me, they set up tables outside of grocery stores and Walmart.

breagha -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 5:07:51 PM)
they go door to door here... and OP they have sugar free cookies now. Or so the little girl that sold me thin mints and trefoils told me last week.

littlewonder -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 5:10:08 PM)
Back in PA they set up tables outside stores all the time as well. Since I've been in Baltimore, I've not seen hide nor hair of a single girl scout anywhere.

Level -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 5:25:42 PM)
They set up tables here, too. Sugar free cookies are still blood sugar bombs.

ShaharThorne -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 6:55:38 PM)
When Lizard was a GS, we set up at a few stores. Our neighborhood was not too good to go door-to-door, yet the neighbors came up to us and brought from us. She always sold out (after I kept a few Thin Mints in the pantry).

theRose4U -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/28/2013 11:20:23 PM)
Being diagnosed celiac & 4 time top in TX sales makes seeing cookie time so hard, but 4 days doubled over isn't worth a thin mint. I usually give the girls $20 & open one of the boxes telling the girls to enjoy them because I can't have cookies anymore. Nothing better than free samples to sell cookies.

descrite -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/29/2013 12:04:12 AM)
That is about the weakest Scout-related innocence-bursting I can think of. I, myself, take great pleasure in telling the little monkeys that I won't buy any of their shit until they stop discriminating against queers. You want to see a parent cross a parking lot quickly? Throw that down on a Thursday afternoon at the grocery store.

jlf1961 -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/29/2013 12:06:06 AM)
Slightly off topic, my childhood was destroyed when I realized my father's playboys were not catalogs and you could not order the women.

descrite -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/29/2013 12:22:19 AM)
Now that....that is tragedy. Of the worst sort. My sympathies, sir.

ClassIsInSession -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/29/2013 12:27:54 AM)
Bringing children into the awareness of adult issues like homosexuality is far from appropriate descrite. These girls aren't typically even old enough to have gone through puberty and you're going to cram that in their face. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but I'd punch you in the mouth if you did that to my kids.

PoeticSoul1 -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/29/2013 12:37:51 AM)
I agree. It has nothing to do with the kids. They don't make the policies, they probably don't even know about that stuff. Its a fun after school club they get to do with their friends. Taking your issues out on kids is just wrong. If you really feel the need to take your Thursday afternoon time bickering with someone and shoving your politics down their throat at least have the decency to direct it at the adults, privately, who can understand and respond coherently.

theRose4U -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/30/2013 8:14:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: descrite That is about the weakest Scout-related innocence-bursting I can think of. I, myself, take great pleasure in telling the little monkeys that I won't buy any of their shit until they stop discriminating against queers. You want to see a parent cross a parking lot quickly? Throw that down on a Thursday afternoon at the grocery store. Um that's the BOY scouts, you know the blue smurfs seeing who can pee the farthest

DesFIP -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/30/2013 8:31:52 PM)
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are totally separate organizations. Girl scouts have no problem with it. It's the bsa that does.

descrite -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/30/2013 10:54:00 PM)
quote: Bringing children into the awareness of adult issues like homosexuality is far from appropriate descrite. These girls aren't typically even old enough to have gone through puberty and you're going to cram that in their face. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but I'd punch you in the mouth if you did that to my kids. ...thus teaching them that violence is an acceptable response to words. You're right: that's much better than exposing them to adult issues. Be proud: you're a great daddy. quote: Girl scouts have no problem with it. It's the bsa that does. You sure about that? It's been a while, but I knew a very nice girl who liked other girls, but kept it quiet because her employer was the GSA. A quick Google search shows that the GSA has a much more accepting policy regarding members (heh), but an amorphous, still-discriminatory don't-ask-don't-tell approach to its staff and volunteers. Maybe you know otherwise?

Silentrunner26 -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/31/2013 2:52:37 AM)
Mom will do what I did set her down and explain why cookies and other sweets are bad for me . Family ask me why I don't visit the kids like I use to . My only answer is " that bitch snatches one more piece of her fudge out of my hand I and doing to snatch her bald " . Damn I love her fudge . She makes it just before it's my time with the kids . I know she does it just to deny me .

theRose4U -> RE: Destroyed childhood (1/31/2013 10:29:38 AM)
The 3 dozen or so lawsuits against the boyscouts for firing openly gay leaders. Suits because they allowed known pedophiles and and and would be the evidence on BOY scouts. Girl scouts do have openly lez leaders but DO prefer a don't ask don't tell policy. Openly stating that ANYTHING of a sexual nature (including periods in this label) should not be discussed with, around or near the girls

dcnovice -> RE: Destroyed childhood (6/15/2013 4:30:39 PM)
quote: Children should by their very existence as children have long summers filled with bike rides, birthday parties, fireflies and an endless stream of delights. We grow up, grow old and grow jaded. Amen! quote: Years ago, I went through the worst semester of my life at college, everything I touched turned to shit. I was feeling sorry for myself, I felt as if I didn't have a friend in the world. The dorm director had a wife and their child living with him. The child saw me alone, crying and he came running over to me and said ".....It will be all right your mommy will come and make it all better" That made me tear up (in a nice way).

dcnovice -> RE: Destroyed childhood (6/15/2013 4:36:42 PM)
quote: Diet or not, a life without a Samoa is not worth living! Too true! My niece's troop offers the option of having the cookies given to a good cause. For several years, they sent them to the troops. I think they've also bestowed them on nursing homes and homeless shelters. So, yep, I'm paying for Samoas and Thin Mints that other people are eating. Works for me.

Rule -> RE: Destroyed childhood (6/15/2013 11:59:36 PM)
Buy the cookies and gift them to someone else.

kallisto -> RE: Destroyed childhood (6/16/2013 6:13:40 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady Around me, they set up tables outside of grocery stores and Walmart. Here too. I would get asked going in the store and coming back out.

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