It's time to binge

I'll admit it, I have a problem with Girl Scout Cookies. I can't stop eating them. I know I could easily chow through a box of thin mints single handedly in one sitting. There has got to be some secret ingredient in them that makes you crave them all the more.

Our order of cookies has been delivered, and they are now safely stowed away in the cabinet above the fridge. Safely? Hardly! We should have them locked up at the bank. Perhaps having to dig out the safe deposit box key, climb in the car, drive to the bank, park, sign the little book, go in the vault, and take the safe deposit box to a private room would temper my lust for the little treats. Not! My only hope is that I forget they are there, only to discover them on some other search mission and have a little "found pleasure" reward.

Perhaps if we dropped boxes of Girl Scout Cookies into the trouble spots in the world, combatants would be too busy eating to fight. Our troops sure love them. A month's worth of Iraq spending ($11 billion,) should do it, and think of all the great things the scouts could do with that money.

We did stay true to our word this year, only buying cookies from an acutal Girl Scout, not their parents, or worse, the sheet taped to a counter at work.

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It's a sure sign that Spring's just around the corner when you get your Girl Scout Cookies. My personal favorite has always been the 'Thin Mint,' (especially frozen!) with 'Shortbreads' right behind. I can do without all the other flavors. I recently found a box in my desk of some kind of cookie that had odd strawberry flavored goo in them. No wonder they lasted so long, they were horrible. This year all those cookies come nearly free of harmful trans fats.

For 90 years they've been selling them, although recently, I think more are sold by parents pressuring their co-workers, or putting order forms up in the office, than by the actual girls themselves. I've bought thin mints from girls I've never even met, and probably never will, which is too bad.

Here comes the lefty in me; It's not just the amount you sell, part of the process should be on developing good interpersonal skills, expecially with adults. Kids are aloof enough, here's a great chance to bridge that divide. I've decided that next year, I'm only going to buy cookies when solicitied and delivered by an actual Girl Scout.

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