Once again, it's Girl Scout Cookie season. In this family, it seems, we are never safe. Just as one former Girl Scout has headed off to college, she is being replaced by another, a kindergartner who has just joined Daisy Scouts. The adorable five-year-old has already perfected her sales pitch and made a video. Why should people buy cookies from her? "They are delicious and my troop can do fun things." What will she learn from selling cookies? "I will learn how to count money and talk to customers and how to keep organized." I defy anyone to refuse her.
When I was a Scout in the 1960s, we walked door to door through our neighborhoods peddling cookies and had our parents (mostly our fathers in those days) take them into work. Nowadays you can order your Thin Mints online and have them delivered. What a world!
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