Made With Real (Frozen!) Girl Scouts
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mrissaWe just had a Girl Scout at the door! With her daddy, so I could have them come in: by themselves, the girls aren't allowed to come into strangers' houses. I know the drill. I did this myself, for six years running. It's just miserable weather for selling GS cookies. I remember how cold it would get.
This was a big thing for me. I really wanted Girl Scouts to come by last year, and they didn't, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
porphyrin spoiled me by getting me the kind that get peanut butter and chocolate all over your front teeth, but that was a different kind of good, not the same.
And I have just remembered: I know Girl Scouts! In the right area, even! I just didn't know it was cookie time yet.songwind, ladysea, mnfiddledragon, marcbs, Heathah, anybody else in the area: let me know if your girls are selling, and I will buy from them. We can arrange it on e-mail or the phone or in person if we're going to see each other soon enough. (Heathah, I don't remember if Miss Siri is a Brownie this year or not. If she is, have her bring her form along when we do ice cream!)
When I started selling cookies, they were $1.75 a box. They're $3.50 this year. My most dramatic cookie moment is when we were delivering cookies and I got a nosebleed all over my white NASA jacket and we had to run to Mrs. Saul's house because we knew her and she would be home. If I was writing this as a story, I'd leave out the blood all over the NASA jacket, because this was the late winter or early spring of 1986, and the symbolism would just be too symbolic, my pure childhood dreams of etc. in the torrents of blood from the etc. etc. But that's how it happened, NASA jacket and Challenger and nosebleed all.
I wonder how many people are going, "oh, man, she's old enough to remember Challenger?" compared to "oh, man, she was young enough to be a Girl Scout for Challenger?" I was 7. I consider myself on the bottom end of a generation because of it: because any American who's too young to remember Challenger is not in the same generation as I am, even if it looks like we're roughly the same age at this point in our lives. I also think that if you can say where you were for the Kennedy assassination, even if it was "lying in my crib staring at a mobile," that's not the same generation as me, either.
What are your generational lines?
And how many of you sold Girl Scout cookies?
This was a big thing for me. I really wanted Girl Scouts to come by last year, and they didn't, and
porphyrin spoiled me by getting me the kind that get peanut butter and chocolate all over your front teeth, but that was a different kind of good, not the same.And I have just remembered: I know Girl Scouts! In the right area, even! I just didn't know it was cookie time yet.
songwind, ladysea, mnfiddledragon, marcbs, Heathah, anybody else in the area: let me know if your girls are selling, and I will buy from them. We can arrange it on e-mail or the phone or in person if we're going to see each other soon enough. (Heathah, I don't remember if Miss Siri is a Brownie this year or not. If she is, have her bring her form along when we do ice cream!)When I started selling cookies, they were $1.75 a box. They're $3.50 this year. My most dramatic cookie moment is when we were delivering cookies and I got a nosebleed all over my white NASA jacket and we had to run to Mrs. Saul's house because we knew her and she would be home. If I was writing this as a story, I'd leave out the blood all over the NASA jacket, because this was the late winter or early spring of 1986, and the symbolism would just be too symbolic, my pure childhood dreams of etc. in the torrents of blood from the etc. etc. But that's how it happened, NASA jacket and Challenger and nosebleed all.
I wonder how many people are going, "oh, man, she's old enough to remember Challenger?" compared to "oh, man, she was young enough to be a Girl Scout for Challenger?" I was 7. I consider myself on the bottom end of a generation because of it: because any American who's too young to remember Challenger is not in the same generation as I am, even if it looks like we're roughly the same age at this point in our lives. I also think that if you can say where you were for the Kennedy assassination, even if it was "lying in my crib staring at a mobile," that's not the same generation as me, either.
What are your generational lines?
And how many of you sold Girl Scout cookies?
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Date: 2005-01-23 01:19 am (UTC)We lived at the edge of a neighborhood, and in my first few years of selling cookies, I kept finding that girls whose houses were more central had gotten to people before I had. So in my third grade year I started going to the business complex across the street from our house. That worked well.
I remember having one realtor look at me sternly over his glasses, as he was poised to order cookies, and demand, "Little girl, do you know Jesus?" At the age of eight, I was sarcastic enough to want to tell him, "Oh yes, he was just over last night. Heck of a nice guy." I was also pragmatic enough not to say it.
This year I ordered cookies and did not give the kiddo money right away, so I think it must be variable.
I don't know how my other relatives reacted to Challenger. I know I made my mom cry and hold me too tight when I hadn't heard the news yet (our classroom's TV was broken) and announced that I was going to space someday. I know that my folks and grands made a big point of going to Cape Canaveral when we were in Florida, and if they hadn't delayed the launch, we would have been at the launch. I wonder how many times my mom imagined dealing with me in that situation, that day.