Me too. I hated it, most of the houses in our town had steps... and
dogs - which I hate. My parents would also volunteer to sell raffle
tickets for the Crippled Children's Society, and then make me go out
and sell those. I hated that worse than any thing else. I now know
why, it was just an `acceptable' form of begging, but try telling that
to my parents!
Rayna
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:50:46PM -0800, Paige wrote:
I hear that Susan- same here.
Paige
On Fri, 09 March 2001, Susan Moskowitz wrote:
>
> Paige,
> I spent several years in the Scouts and struggled with many aspects of
> the program. I was pretty successful at selling cookies however. My biggest
> problem was finding someone to partner with. They would send us out in
> pairs, one of us would go to one house, the other to the house next door.
> None of my able-bodied friends wanted to go with me once they discovered
> that I could make sales to people who had refused to buy from them only a
> few minutes earlier. The adults in my neighborhood just couldn't say no to
> a little girl with braids, a Scout uniform, forearm crutches and leg braces.
> Susan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paige" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 2:26 PM
> Subject: Re: girl scout cookies
>
>
> > so are we Ken! It is just too funny.
> >
> > Girl Scout experience,......... for a kid with CP, back in the 70s,
> inclusion wasn't a popular thing! Whatever badge they were after to get-
> I'd say haalf at least I couldn't achieve partly due to the CP! It was
> discouraging. Conformity- ah- no- ya make up your own rules! Least that's
> what I did! LOL And I ALWAYS won the 1st prize for selling the most
> cookies. I just called people I knew- but my father took the order forms to
> work- he worked for a huge bank in Chicago- so ..........Girl Scouts wasn't
> "fun". And Brownies are too long ago to remember! LOL
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 09 March 2001, "Barber, Kenneth L." wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > i am beginning to think you are!
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paige [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 2:14 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: girl scout cookies
> > >
> > >
> > > That's MY SIS!!!!!!!!!!! LOL We are definitely twins!!!!!!!!
> > >
> > > Paige
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 09 March 2001, Rayna Lamb wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm way cuter now though!! And I know things they didn't teach us in
> > > > Girl Guides ;->
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:21:23PM -0500, Barber, Kenneth L. wrote:
> > > > oh... i bet you were cute in that uniform a funny grin on my
> face.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Rayna Lamb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:19 PM
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: Re: girl scout cookies
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Actually, yes I was Ken - but in New Zealand they are called Girl
> > > > Guides. I only went for a couple of years. Hated it with a
> passion,
> > > > those dreadful uniforms, and all the rules - nothing more than
> kiddie
> > > > fascism in my opinion!!!! I'm not big on following orders and
> > > > maintaining the status quo.
> > > >
> > > > Rayna
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:16:54AM -0500, Barber, Kenneth L.
> wrote:
> > > > were either of you girl scouts?
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Paige [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:10 AM
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: Re: girl scout cookies
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > GREAT one Rayna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
> > > >
> > > > Paige
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 09 March 2001, Rayna Lamb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > As long as it isn't a nutrious breakfast of girl scouts,
> Ken!
> > > > > <snigger>
> > > > >
> > > > > Rayna
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:55:29AM -0500, Barber, Kenneth L.
> > > wrote:
> > > > > it is the time of year again. i am sitting here with my
> > > morning
> > > > coffee
> > > > and a
> > > > > nutrishous breakfast of girl scout cookies.
> > > >
> > > >
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