this weekend i ripped off a girlscout

i feel so guilty, you can't even imagine. the saga starts two weeks ago when mary read in the paper that there were going to be girlscouts at the grocery store on friday selling cookies. since sara and i weren't solicited by a girlscout (although we'd be prime targets because we've bought enough boyscout popcorn to last until 2020 and we don't even like it that much) we were without cookies. and you know there's only a small annual window of cookie selling, so we were a little desperate. i had it on my calendar for two weeks, waiting.

on friday afternoon i cashed out early so i could go and be ready for the scouts. i stalked them for for half an hour*, and lo they never came. mary and sara were very dissapointed, sara more than anyone because she's pregnant and you don't deny pregnant ladies cookies. it simply isn't the done thing. so i called the mall. they often have girlscouts selling cookies, and we lucked out. the girlscouts of the abanaki council will be there on march 25-26. and there i was, patiently waiting for two more weekends. and then yesterday sara called me from the road to tell me the scouts were at trenton market, and even in costume.

i battled with myself for a while before getting in the car and backtracking to trenton just to buy cookies at 3.50 a box. i bought five boxes.** the total was 17.50, i gave her a twenty. she gave me 3.50 change. i didn't count it until i got home. i was feeling really bad until sara said they almost cheated her a dollar so i'm hoping they break even in the end.



*this post was going to be called "stalking girlscouts" but i thought better of it.
**to which matt said "do we have enough?" they weren't all supposed to be be for us.