It's Girl Scout Cookie time

It's time for Girl Scout cookies, and members of the Old 96 Council, which includes Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Pickens and Oconee counties will set up shop for their annual cookie ...

[Jennifer Watts]

I'm ready to buy the thin mint kind

[WHISTLEBLOWER]

I hate girl scout cookies, they are turning these poor little girls into AMWAY people!

[Jennifer Watts]

I use to be a girl scout

[Jennifer Watts]

wrong

[STUPID GIRL SCOUTS]

GIRL SCOUTS ARE STUPID CAUSE THEY ARE LIARS

[MAB]

WHISTLEBLOWER wrote:

I hate girl scout cookies, they are turning these poor little girls into AMWAY people!

Were you not hugged as a child? Were all the girls in your class Girl Scouts and you weren't able to join and you felt left out?

I was a girl scout from the age of 7-17. I earned dozens of badges and in the course of earning those badges I learned and to this day still use wonderful skills. For example...I earned my first aid badge and was trained in emergency water rescue which allowed me to become a state certified lifeguard and thus provided me with my summer job through my four years of highschool.....life guarding at the county pool. I also earned hundreds of hours of community service volunteering at childrens hospitals, elderly care centers, homeless shelters and the humane society. I spent every summer and most of my spring break at sleep away camps experiencing nature and the wilderness, something a girl growing up in the city doesn't get much of, we put on plays during the holidays for our families, held food drives, and baked pies for Meal on Wheels. And yes, every year I sold Girl Scout cookies, and yes, every year I reached my goal of selling over 1,000 boxes of cookies and got to collect every prize that is offered along the way. We set up booths outside firestations and grocery stores, we went door to door, our parents took the order forms to work....call me an Amway person but I call myself lucky. I come from a poor, single parent family...my mother couldn't afford to take me on all the trips my troop went on, couldn't afford to sign me up for the classes we took, couldn't afford to send me to camp. So Girl Scouts was so much more to me than what you reduce it to....it gave me the oppertunity to have sisters I never would have because I'm an only child, it gave me a network of friends and supporters to feel safe with, to trust, to learn from, to grow with. Next time you walk pas a table of Girl Scouts and scoff at the price of their Amway cookies remember that maybe that little girls mother couldn't even afford her uniform and her troop all pitched in and bought her a brand new one, and maybe her mother couldn't afford the monthly bus pass she needed to get to and from school on the city bus and remember that maybe the local Girl Scout council bought both her and her mothers pass for a year so they could make it to and from school, work and troop meetings.

My daughters will most definitely be Girl Scouts and I hope your's are also blessed with the oppertunity as well.

[Brubaker]

Yes that's it. But the star of that movie was the male supporting actor. She stole the show but that 'trailer' guy played a good part. I might have to buy that movie.
And I mean't to say Anzac cookies. Very nice...

[Cecilia]

Your post helped to put things in perspective for me. My daughter is 7 and has been involved in girl scouts for 3 years. I had recently been talking to her about quitting to help simplify our schedule. Reading your post had me rethinking and yes, appreciating what she has in her brownie troup. My daughter is sensitive, earnest and has a good heart. These qualities are important in a good girl scout, your message helped to validate that, thank you.

MAB wrote:

<quoted text>
Were you not hugged as a child? Were all the girls in your class Girl Scouts and you weren't able to join and you felt left out?
I was a girl scout from the age of 7-17. I earned dozens of badges and in the course of earning those badges I learned and to this day still use wonderful skills. For example...I earned my first aid badge and was trained in emergency water rescue which allowed me to become a state certified lifeguard and thus provided me with my summer job through my four years of highschool.....life guarding at the county pool. I also earned hundreds of hours of community service volunteering at childrens hospitals, elderly care centers, homeless shelters and the humane society. I spent every summer and most of my spring break at sleep away camps experiencing nature and the wilderness, something a girl growing up in the city doesn't get much of, we put on plays during the holidays for our families, held food drives, and baked pies for Meal on Wheels. And yes, every year I sold Girl Scout cookies, and yes, every year I reached my goal of selling over 1,000 boxes of cookies and got to collect every prize that is offered along the way. We set up booths outside firestations and grocery stores, we went door to door, our parents took the order forms to work....call me an Amway person but I call myself lucky. I come from a poor, single parent family...my mother couldn't afford to take me on all the trips my troop went on, couldn't afford to sign me up for the classes we took, couldn't afford to send me to camp. So Girl Scouts was so much more to me than what you reduce it to....it gave me the oppertunity to have sisters I never would have because I'm an only child, it gave me a network of friends and supporters to feel safe with, to trust, to learn from, to grow with. Next time you walk pas a table of Girl Scouts and scoff at the price of their Amway cookies remember that maybe that little girls mother couldn't even afford her uniform and her troop all pitched in and bought her a brand new one, and maybe her mother couldn't afford the monthly bus pass she needed to get to and from school on the city bus and remember that maybe the local Girl Scout council bought both her and her mothers pass for a year so they could make it to and from school, work and troop meetings.
My daughters will most definitely be Girl Scouts and I hope your's are also blessed with the oppertunity as well.

[Girl Scout]

DID YOU EVER THINK A GIRL SCOUT MIGHT BE READING THIS THEY ARE NOT LIERS!!!!!!!!!

[OH YAH]

GIRL SCOUTS ARE NOT LIERS MY DAUGHTERS ONE

[PAUL SHYKORA]

LONG LIVE THE GIRLS SCOUTS.....,Too boot!!!GOD Bless...

[mama]

WHISTLEBLOWER wrote:

I hate girl scout cookies, they are turning these poor little girls into AMWAY people!

Well, I love girl scout cookies!!!

[mama]

Well, I love girl scout cookies!

[Izzie]

STUPID GIRL SCOUTS wrote:

GIRL SCOUTS ARE STUPID CAUSE THEY ARE LIARS

No, the organization and many of the adults involved are stupid. They encourage conformacy and they are paranoid (won't let 12 yr old kids handle pocket knives, think homemade slingshots are weapons, supervise kids like vice ect) I am thirteen and I am a girl scout because they give away $1500 scholorships! I can avoid the stupidness and still get the scolorship, though.

[who]

Izzie wrote:

<quoted text> No, the organization and many of the adults involved are stupid. They encourage conformacy and they are paranoid (won't let 12 yr old kids handle pocket knives, think homemade slingshots are weapons, supervise kids like vice ect) I am thirteen and I am a girl scout because they give away $1500 scholorships! I can avoid the stupidness and still get the scolorship, though.

huh