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Yeah, I was allowed to sell my GS cookies, but my mom hocked 'em to her friends & family over the phone and my dad took the order form to work. GS cookies are about the only thing that kids can sell that other people actually want. I know I always buy from the little kids who set up tables in our cafeteria every spring. And I always write them a check when I sign up because (a) I know that the Girl Scouts are good for it, and (b) I want to make sure that I have the money so that I don't stick some poor kid with 10 boxes of Thin Mints. My big grew up in Iowa City and lived about a block from Greek Row. One year she got the brilliant idea that she'd sell all her cookies to the Greeks. Well, she sold the most boxes, but an entire sorority house full of women (which shall remain nameless) welched on their end of the deal. "Oh, I'm sorry little girl, but I don't have that money right now." Her family got stuck with more than 100 boxes of cookies and it took almost a year to get rid of them.
I still stand by my opinion that it's poor form to whore children out like that. And in this day and age there's no way my kids would go door-to-door.
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