"In perhaps the greatest display of entrepreneurial spirit in modern history, a California Girl Scout has been selling cookies outside of a San Francisco marijuana dispensary.
Danielle Lei, 13, set up shop in front of The Green Cross on Monday, selling a whopping 117 boxes in just two hours, according to Mashable. That's about one box per minute."
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Whoa, man I totally got the munchies. Wonder where I could get some - oh wow man, it's like that cookie dealer could read my mind or something!
Yes. I don't understand a "no" vote except to be contrarian.
I dont understand the poll.
Lem said...
I dont understand the poll.
It's a poll-emic.
@Lem: I read it that the yes/no vote is supposed to be whether the girl is a "smart cookie" and not whether you like the cookies.
What is the question in your poll?
Confused.
I don't buy Girl Scout Cookies because....I don't like the cookies. They don't taste good and are usually stale.
Political reasons don't play into it for me. It wouldn't be fair to penalize the girls or humiliate them because the moronic adults who are in charge of the organization have thrown their lot in with radical feminism and baby murders. Not the girl's fault, although if their scout leaders are cut from the same cloth, the little girls will grow up to be just the same. They should join 4H.
That being said. The girl scout in front of the pot dispensary....GENIUS....know your target market!!!
Product placement.
Smart cookie.
Evil Capitalist.
Munchie factor plus free love money flow = gimme some sugar.
The pro-socialist Denver Post and most democrats demand she give up her profits. Know-it-all leftists also require the 13 year old evil capitalizing capitalist be placed behind bars (or in government run skool for re-education). What can the leftists dig up on her? There must be something in her e-mails.
Chick, I don't know why you'd assume that.
But the poll was deliberately vague, though meant to question whether one likes the cookies or not. And as DBQ demonstrates, this can be based on the taste and quality of the cookies themselves, or one's viewpoint of the Girl Scout organization.
Ah, yes I see it now. She's preying on the poor victims. Plus she's promulgating a harmful stereotype of potheads. She needs to be shut down.
deborah said...
Chick, I don't know why you'd assume that.
You posed a question in your title and never answered it. Than you gave the reader a choice in the poll. I don't think it was a stretch for me to suppose what I did, but I'll give you credit for being vague.
As for the cookies? I rarely buy them, but I always try to encourage the girls selling them in front of the grocery store.
Agree about 4H.
Hungry potheads will buy anything, especially if it's easy. She set up shop right there - no store front needed. Just a table. She found them on their way to 7-11, where they were going to purchase slim jims and twinkies anyway.
Not that I would stereotype or anything.
Chick, there were two components to the post. I was asking the reader if they thought she was a smart cookie and I was asking the reader their opinion on GS cookies.
The cookies can be okay, but as my daughter sold cookies for many years, I'm over them. When I pass a concession, I usually just give a five dollar donation to encourage them.
I was not aware of pro-abortion people at the top, and am not surprised. But the Scout leaders I knew were religious, and one said she'd take her girls out of scouts if God was removed from the pledge, or charter, or something.
They're desperate to keep older girls in the ranks, and now offer the option of earning charms for a charm bracelet in lieu of badges. In fact, I think some were charm only.
Whenever I see a kid doing something entrepreneurial I support it. I always buy lemonade. The cookie thing is tough in San Diego because they are ubiquitous. However, I've bought 10 or so boxes this season. I've given half of them to the homeless.
Annie would not support this because she hates ANYTHING related to cannabis. She must have just smoked ditch weed in her youth. Or maybe the joyless mope never lit up?
No on the cookies, for "all of the above":
> Only some are good; but they aren't that good.
> And they are way too expensive. A little more, OK; but they've gotten greedy.
> Add to that the drift in the Girl Scouts, of which the latest political and ideological stuff is only the icing on the, er...cookie. You don't go from being totally sound to tweeting solidarity-with-pro-abort pols; a lot of rot happens in between.
> I got some first-hand perspective -- albeit very anecdotal and limited -- when I had both boy and girl scouts in one parish.
It wasn't so much that anything was exactly wrong with the girl scouts, as much as they seemed to lack focus and to be turning inward. The girls didn't seem to be having as much fun, either.
Meanwhile, the boys were having a great time, doing fun stuff that was also obviously building leadership and character and friendship.
The pro-abortive thing is a deal breaker for me. No cookies this year.
I'll double up on Boy Scout popcorn in stead. I agree with FMF - they seem to have a lot mor fun than the Girl Scouts. Maybe that's because the Boy Scouts are doing things, while the Girl Scouts are being lectured to.
I understand fund raising. I also understand having the kids participate and "work" for the goal.
What I object to, in the Girl Scouts and most other fundraising projects, is the using of the kids to basically BEG for money. They aren't really doing anything other than playing upon people's guilt and creating a feeling of obligation. They aren't 'selling' they are panhandling.
Again to use a 4H example. One of the local kids, raises cattle and pigs to enter into the fair. Once the animals are judged they are then auctioned off....for some very nice amounts, to go towards the kid's college fund or whatever. This kid took the initiative to write up a short resume for himself and his animals. Went to each and every business and to people in the area who would be likely to bid on the animals, every year, to pitch his animals and ask that we consider bidding on his livestock, explaining why even if he didn't WIN the blue ribbon, his animals were well raised (and probably will taste great...they did) and explained what he wanted to do with the money. It was for USC Davis tuition. He wants to be a veterinarian. He did a great job of presenting his case, eloquentl. He made a big impression. This kid sold his animals for top dollar every year. He is almost through the program and has been offered an internship at the local large animal veterinarians business.
THIS type of sales and effort I admire. Just ambushing people at the grocery story with your sense of entitlement because you are a Girl Scout....does NOT get my sympathy or attention.
...but I'll give you credit for being vague.
More credit is due. Deliberate vagueness was admitted, which takes vagueness to another level and curiously enough leads to "obfuscate", the root of which comes from the Latin word fuscus (dark). How fun it that? Almost as good as a Thin Mint.
Do I consider the 13 year old to be a "Smart Cookie"? Yes and No
Do I like Girl Scout cookies? Yes and No
Did I find the post and poll confusing? Yes and No
Did I learn something and find levity within the fuscus? Yes!
Eloquently....sigh...I wish we had editing powers.
But, back to the Girl Scouts. I might consider even buying some of their cookies if they actually made the pitch.
Tell, me why you are in the Girl Scouts. Sell me on why I should support your organization. What does it do for you, for the community. Give me some VALUE for my investment in your crappy cookies.
What I hated about the GS cookie sales effort was the pushy co-workers who brought sign-up sheets to work and made sure everyone knew about them. One co-worker even brought her daughter to work and together they went to every cubicle and room in the office pushing the cookies.
The idea of course, is that you won't say no when the Scout is standing there. I always say to my co-worker "What? You told me you liked your son much more than your daughter?" I had few friends, by the way.
I'll gladly buy 5 or 6 boxes from a Girl Scout going door to door.
Have mom or dad hang the order form at the workplace? Forget it, I'm not buying.
Learning commerce should be tough.
Those "cookies" are poison. I eschew them.
Now if the Girl Scouts sold ammo I'd re-think my position.
One co-worker even brought her daughter to work and together they went to every cubicle and room in the office pushing the cookies.
That happened to me once except without the kid standing there (I do have my standards and making kids cry is off my list of acceptable things). I began asking questions. "Who gets this money if I buy cookies? Does it go directly to your troop?" Blank stare. "What does this money fund? Does it go to some national organization? I wonder what their salaries are. I bet they are more than WE are making here." Confused look. "Why are YOU selling these cookies instead of your daughter? How is she going to learn things if you do it for her?" Annoyed look. By now my 'co-worker', who isn't actually working is getting pissed off.....GOOD....."By the way. My husband is diabetic. We don't buy cookies."
Next year....she skipped me. Oh darn.
Probably a smart kid but the idea probably came from mom or dad. Especially given the publicity this has garnered.
Close - but imo not quite panhandling. The girls are selling a product and learning how that feels and perhaps they gain confidence. Panhandlers just want you to hand them money for what is often their next fix.
Learning how to sell isn't a bad thing. I do agree that standing there with a pile of mass-made boxed cookies isn't exactly a challenge.
I recall when I was young the girls scouts went door to door and gathered orders, and you had to wait. We used to buy some. The few varieties we purchased tasted good back then. The last time I had a GS cookie, I thought it was sub-par. I never buy the cookies now --as I pass the girls camped out in front of the grocery store.
They offer, I say no thanks, they move on. Learning to take no for an answer is probably the best lesson.
Which brings us back to this girl who set up shop in front of a pot shop. No one says NO to cookies during a munchies fit. Genius.
As far as the organization goes - those are excellent questions DBQ.
I never buy, I never understood the Point of the "Girl Scouts". Mrs. RC being a Foreign Devil, understands it even less.
I suspect the '"Girl Scouts" were just started because the "Girls" felt left out. The Boys had the "Boy Scouts", so....
I never buy, I never understood the Point of the "Girl Scouts". Mrs. RC being a Foreign Devil, understands it even less.
I suspect the '"Girl Scouts" were just started because the "Girls" felt left out. The Boys had the "Boy Scouts", so....
Amartel, agreed. I hope a thirteen year-old wouldn't have the knowledge of 'munchies,' but I guess it could have been her.
DBQ, it is kind of like home parties, where you buys something for the sake of the party hostess, especially when they're at the point of entrance to a store.
April right, properly done, it can be a good learning experience.
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