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Badly Mannered Girl Scouts

March 3rd, 2013 at 02:31 am

I spent $9.43 at the grocery store today. I ran out of ketchup and also DS wanted to make chocolate chip cookies, so I bought some of the expensive chocolate chips that he isn't allergic to.

The Girl Scouts were being extremely aggressive outside the store. I got pretty mad, but kept my cool and waited to make snarky comments until I was in the car. Don't they realize what a bad name they give the organization with their total lack of manners and in your face sales tactics? Or is that what they are teaching them today? When I was a GS that kind of bad manners would not have been tolerated or dreamed of, for that matter. When people are clearly avoiding you and refusing to make eye contact, you do not jump in front of them waving your arms and shout at them to buy your cookies. Bad, bad form. Especially when they did it to the lady with the oxygen tank.

After the store we went to the library and I picked up my holds. 3 of them are on rabbits and the other 2 are on backyard livestock in general and homesteading. We are likely starting on rabbits sooner than we thought and I need to do a lot more reading still. And we need to build our own hutches since the cost of buying premade ones is hugely expensive. Even used the good ones are $75.

2 Responses to “Badly Mannered Girl Scouts”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    Unfortunately, I see those types of behaviors more than I desire. It definitely is not the girl scouts I would mentor. I think it specifically is reflective of the leader, not the girl scouts as whole.

  2. Jane Says:
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    I have also noticed kids being more aggressive about selling things these days, and it seems like older and older children are being loud and impulsive in a way that only 5 year olds could get away with when I was a kid. My personal theory is that many children these days have been told how adorable they are one too many times for their good. The attitude seems to be that you are expected to buy $17 dollar wrapping paper or whatever it is just because a child (in a good local school district that absolutely is not fundraising to be able to afford textbooks or pencils) asks you to. When I was a Girl Scount we were expected to be polite, and we were also expected to divide up the neighborhood so the same neighbors did not get hit up to buy cookies 6 times in one weekend.

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