Cookies
It’s that time of year. For us, it’s that time when the parents of Girl Scouts bring their forms to work and coerce co-workers to support their daughters. Through the purchase of Girl Scout Cookies.
I never made it to the Girl Scouts as a kid. I was a Brownie for one year. But, there was a 3-foot snow storm during the weekend we had to deliver Girl Scout Cookies. There are photos of me with my Red Flyer wagon up to my hips in snow. I think that was the first and last year my parents pushed me to be involved with that organization.
But now, we still get mixed up with the Girly crew. Sweets came home from work the other day with five packages of Girl Scout Cookies. Two boxes of Thin Mints, two boxes of Caramel deLights (formerly known as Samoas) and one box of Peanut Butter Patties (personally, I liked them better when they were called Tagalongs).
As if I wasn’t mad enough he brought those treats into a house where I’m trying to avoid eating bad things. But, then Sweets lectured me. LECTURED me. As if I’m some unruly child who must abide by his rules.
And I gave Sweets the look. As if he had grown a third nipple and an extra nut. He didn’t let the look stop him. And he was spot on serious, too.
He first told me we could only open one box at a time. And had to finish that box before we could open the next box. Not only that, but there was a specific order in which the boxes were to be opened.
1) Samoas
2) Thin Mints
3) Tagalongs
4) Thin Mints
5) Samoas
His reasoning? Start off with *his* favorite. And end with *his* favorite. I can see where this is going. Next year, I will come home with my own set of Girl Scout Cookies. And I will establish my own rules. Mix & match. Open all boxes at once. Eat three cookies at the same time. Got any other ideas?
In the meantime, I’ll play his stupid game. And just for that, I finished all his Thin Mints. The second box. Now all he’s left with are his favorites. That is, if he can find that damn box of Samoas. heheheh.
Update – For those of you who read yesterday’s post, I got a huge kick out of the array of responses. My friend tagged me as The Tiny Dangerous One, though Sweets would likely tag me as The One With The Bad Memory and I’d likely tag myself as The One You Can Depend On (or The One Who Is Always Hungry – ha!).
March 4th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Oooh girl scout cookies are the devil reincarnated I think. They are so good, and so very hard to resist. And those are all of my favorites! You aren’t seriously following those rules are you? ;)
March 4th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I’ve never had girl scout cookies dammit! I feel so deprived, living in Canada.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I only made it as a brownie as well. Girl Scouts seems like a good idea, on principle.
I mentioned the evil cookies on my post today too ;) we are totally on the same wavelength!
Steven brought home 3 boxes a few weeks ago, but I only had one 100 cal. pack before Lent, Now they just sit there. I think he has one every once in awhile.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
This post just had me literally laughing out loud at my desk! The cookie rules are soooo something I would do and it would drive my husband nuts!
Agree with you on the name changes though — why fix something that wasn’t broken?
March 4th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I do love me some tagalongs!!!! They are so good. I also liked the lemon (low fat) cookies, but am not sure they still even make those. I haven’t eaten a girl scout cookie in about 2 years, since I left my last job. WOW… I really need to find some!!!
March 4th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I was kicked out of girl scouts for making fun of the troop leaders daughter. Ah well, eating the cookies defintely better than peddling them.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
We got our boxes from the BF’s niece. We are only doing the one box at a time rule. the BF has a tendency to eat all the cookies leaving me with an empty box. So I had to put my foot down.
Especially after the disappearing Thin mint incident of 08.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Which ones are the peanut butter ones?
those are the ones I like…
March 4th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Why is it that I can never find Girl Scout Cookies? I call shenanigans.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I love the way you’re turning his game around on him. Too funny! I love girl scout cookies and bought a ton from our neighbor’s daughter.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
You should replace each cookie he eats with a single square of toilet paper.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Ooooo those things are deliciously evil! I would probably eat all boxes within a few days because I wouldn’t be able to keep my mouth away from them.
I think you should apply your own rules!
March 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Awesome! I got it right!
March 4th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I kind of like that he’s thought out a system but then again, that’d be something I would do. I ordered girl scout cookies from a fellow blogger and am WAITING. Hurry up!
I was a girl scout for years and getting the cookies just takes me back to a fun part of my childhood.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I probably would do it the same way as Sweets…except I would only have one box of thin mints and I would have a box of the shortbread ones. :)
March 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Damn canadian girl scouts only ever bring the straight chocolate or straight vanilla kinds.
I WANT PEANUT BUTTER PATTIES.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Damn. All this talk about Girl Scout cookies floating around the interwebz has me drooling.
I’d hide every box from Sweets and only give him cookies when he starts acting normal. Normal people devour entire boxes of cookies in one sitting… right?
March 4th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
That is so something my husband would try. In fact he’s tried to do that with cereal before. I don’t play along. You’re a good sport for doing it though…but I’ll come back to you I’m you’re second or third year of marriage and see if you’re still playing along.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Oh dear. Of all the things I’ve thought through about what happens if the fella and I were to end up living together, I never thought about how badly he might throw off my “no sweets in the house!” rule.
I love those freakin’ peanut butter patties, but sorry Girl Scouts, no room for you at my house. (thank god no one in my department has kids around that age yet!)
March 4th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Ha, his rules crack me up. I’m fortunate to not have had the chance to order any cookies. Though I likely would have if I could have.
And your retaliation cracks me up even more.
The Tiny Dangerous One? Really? There must be some stories behind that!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
hi love!
mmmmmmm girl scout cookies! i only got two boxes this year. one is called “thanks a lot”-- they’re kinda like the keebler elves, which im obsessed with.
you know my rap with girl scouts/brownies… never made it too far, and got booted for being “naughty.” whatever, i kind of like that title now that im older ;)
March 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I bought only three boxes, one from each girl who was selling them.
Lemonades
Thin Mints
Peanut Butter
I sent them all to work with my husband having only eaten 1 lemonade and 1 peanut butter.
I am a perfect, saint-style person.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I am CRACKING UP over this. I love that he has these insane rules and that you hid his Samoas. Just thinking about it is making me laugh again.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Oh my gosh that is the best thing ever. I am all about opening all the boxes at once for variety. But I ALWAYS save a box of Samoas and hide them for myself. I know, I’m a selfish bitch. :-)
I hate that they renamed them Caramel Delights. Out here, you can find them both ways -- in one county it’s Samoas, then in another county it’s Caramel Delights. LAME.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I like your rules best, but he did get a pretty good line up of their finest crack cookies. What do they put in there?
March 4th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Have you had the lemonade cookies???? They are delicious!!!!
I never even was a brownie. I went to the welcome meeting and a helper girl was putting pins on people to welcome them in. She poked me with the pin and in my 5 year old mind she “did it on purpose” so I never went back. I can NOT believe my mom went along with that because if one of my kids pulled that I would force them to go back and realize the girl did NOT do it on purpose at all.
My oldest was a girl scout and sold cookies one year. She sold the most in her group and then quit because it was boring. I don’t blame her. Our group WAS boring. Did I mention I was the helper leader???? And that the actual leader and I had one thing after another go wrong in our familiesthe years we were leading it that led to it being boring. I suck…because of me my daughter thinks girl scouts is lame. But we still all love the cookies!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
If I might take a moment to reveal the depth of my legal dorkitude: the names are different because several years ago the Girl Scouts started contracting with two bakers in different regions and the Little Brownie Bakers (original bakery) actually owns registered trademarks for Samoas and Tagalongs, and Do Si Dos, so the other bakery has to use different names. That’s also why different regions of the country get different “limited edition” cookies.
Um, okay, now I want cookies. This does not bode well for the box of trefoils that is sitting in my desk drawer, which I’ve been diligently rationing.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Mmmm … Girl Scout cookies. Mine (Thin Mints and Samoas … they will always be Samoas) arrive tomorrow! And will promptly go into the freezer because both kinds taste so much more awesome frozen!
March 4th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I so wish Girl Scouts sold their cookies in September (when my body is happy to go into hiding under sweaters.) But the new year rolls around and I have a certain swim suit I want to fit into and I limit the boxes of cookies I buy. And of course we blow through them in two days.
Next year I’m ordering ten boxes of Somoas. I’ll freeze them if I have to.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
What? You didn’t go to girl scout cookie counseling before you got married? What were you two thinking?
March 4th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Yummyyyyyy! I love girl scout cookies! Never been quite as strategic at enjoying them as Sweets, though! I, too, was a Brownie drop out. I was selling cookies like mad, and then I announced at dinner one night I was going to by myself a new bike with my money… My mom corrected me, telling me, of course, I wasn’t earning any extra cash by selling these cookies. I was officially done! I didn’t sell another box! I. Was. Done.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
see, i’m furious at a guy we work with, because his kids ARE in the brownies, and he did NOT bring in the forms for us. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO A YEAR WITHOUT THIN MINTS, I ASK YOU? HOWWW????
ps there is no way i’d manage to abide by sweets’ cookie rules. girl scout cookies cannot have rules.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I wanted to be a brownie and didn’t understand why I wasn’t allowed. Now I think it was because there was some Christian prayer involved back in the day (1970′s) and my mom was creeped out by that. That doesn’t stop me from LOVING the cookies!
March 4th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
No offense to Sweets, but he kind of took the fun out of cookies. Just saying. I think they are still called Samoas is some markets. There was a time you had both types of cookies, it depended on which bakery they came from what the name was…but maybe all has changed. Damn I want a Samoa now.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:12 am
No, no, no, no, NO!. N. O. Must open all boxes at once. Period.
*Sigh* men are exasperating, are they not? If only they weren’t also so darn wonderful.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I’m laughing while reading this because I was just talking to someone about GSC today. First off, I would not be cool with a lecture about one box at a time. Although I can take down a Thin Mint or Caramel Delight box in no time. Love those guys.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Oh boy do I want a girl scout cookie now!!! People aren’t allowed to hock them at work which is seriously a crime (although probably better for my diet!).
March 5th, 2009 at 5:13 am
ha ha ha. I love the Girl Scout cookie manifesto!!!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Um…I believe I was in the snow behind that **$(*#&$ wagon, picking up the boxes of cookies that would fall out the back and get lost in the snow! Let's give credit where credit is due.