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To: Kaslin

When my kids were in Girl Scouts, it seemed that everything was focused on cookie sales only. The girls quickly grew tired of being cookie distribution mules and quit.


2 posted on 05/21/2011 6:06:45 AM PDT by EricT. (I'm going to spend 68% more than I make this year- I hear it's the responsible thing to do..)
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6 posted on 05/21/2011 6:31:28 AM PDT by Bean Counter (If Obama is the answer, how stupid was the question??)
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To: EricT.
When my kids were in Girl Scouts, it seemed that everything was focused on cookie sales only.

Same here.

Our breaking point was when my daughters went on a "three day survival camping trip." They were told to pack light ... only two changes of clothes and nothing else. And, of course, they were told to expect the worst.

Their troop leader drove them to a "scout wilderness area" in the wilds of West Texas where they slept on a cot in a cabin built on a cement slab with mosquito netting in the windows instead of glass. They learned how to cope using hand crank can openers instead of electric models and how to purify tap water using a Mr. Coffee machine. They were forced to endure the hardship of reading under a bare bulb, and there was no TV.

That gruesome ordeal reduced the organization to the point of zero credibility, and the girls quit shortly thereafter.

7 posted on 05/21/2011 6:40:53 AM PDT by Zakeet (The difference between the Wee Wee and a battery ... the battery has a positive side)
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