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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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