hildy89 | "Are they made of real Girl Scouts?"

So it's that time of year again. When bunches of little girls and their parents confront you in front of the supermarket and ply their sugary wares. "Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?" (I swear they sounded like those survey ladies in Animaniacs asking in sing song fashion "Do you want to take a survey?") One mother referred to it as the "cookie ambush". A surprisingly good tactic, if there were any styles of cookies I liked. I'd always bemoaned the fact they'd done away with my favorite lemon creme filled cookies from when I was a Girl Scout. I even still have my sash and pins somewhere tucked away. And then what did they do? They brought out "Lemon Chalet Cremes" that look very similar to the old style cookies. I'm doomed. Doomed, I say.

All the supermarkets in the area have fallen in love with the idea of the reusable bags. And it does work quite well. We just have to explain to nice checkers that just because you can load everything into two bags and the bags are strong to hold everything doesn't mean your customers are strong enough to lug everything home! Maybe they assume I'm just going to my car.