This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I'm laughing at this.

I'm trying to imagine what a marriage must be like where you just got bat shit crazy on your husband for screwing up the delivery of cookies.

I don't think I've ever yelled at my husband (except maybe in labor).

+1. I yell at my husband all the time but not for stupid crap like this. DCUM is putting way too much thought into cookie delivery. It's for the Girl Scouts- no one expects the orders to turn out perfectly. They're kids and it's a fundraiser. It's not a crisis if someone screws up a cookie order. And it certainly doesn't reflect badly on the family. Jeez!

This is a terrible message to teach the kids. When handling money, it needs to be perfect or nearly perfect. Otherwise, it's stealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I'm laughing at this.

I'm trying to imagine what a marriage must be like where you just got bat shit crazy on your husband for screwing up the delivery of cookies.

I don't think I've ever yelled at my husband (except maybe in labor).

+1. I yell at my husband all the time but not for stupid crap like this. DCUM is putting way too much thought into cookie delivery. It's for the Girl Scouts- no one expects the orders to turn out perfectly. They're kids and it's a fundraiser. It's not a crisis if someone screws up a cookie order. And it certainly doesn't reflect badly on the family. Jeez!

Most people are expecting the cookies that they ordered and paid for. I'd would not assume a screw-up, especially when there's clearly an adult in charge.

[Anonymous]

How old is the child here? I don't think kids should be selling stuff unless they're old enough to handle the orders, money, and delivery themselves. I sold GS cookies from the age of ten to 14 and I did it completely by myself every year. Back then, you were not allowed to sell until you were a Junior, so about age 10, which I think was a good rule. What are kids learning if their parents do it all for them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old is the child here? I don't think kids should be selling stuff unless they're old enough to handle the orders, money, and delivery themselves. I sold GS cookies from the age of ten to 14 and I did it completely by myself every year. Back then, you were not allowed to sell until you were a Junior, so about age 10, which I think was a good rule. What are kids learning if their parents do it all for them?

Wow...and now you post about that on a website.

[Anonymous]

Wow, so many contrarians/bullies/slacker DHs/trolls on here. A grown man and a young girl should be able to handle this extremely simple task with zero problems and zero mistakes. All you people who are claiming you wouldn't mind if your DH screwed it up/ate all the cookies other people paid for, or if you paid for cookies you didn't receive...I call bull$hit.

[Anonymous]

Not reading 14 pages but if nobody wants the thin mints I'll take all 7

[Anonymous]

I expect the orders to turn out perfectly. Yes. If my child sold 87 boxes, I expect her to go deliver and collect money for 87 boxes. Damn fucking straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not reading 14 pages but if nobody wants the thin mints I'll take all 7

Lol right?!
If this happened to my DH, which i could TOTALLY see, I would honestly just assume that he had bulk ordered with the hope of leftovers. I might gently chastise him for not overordering more of the GOOD cookies . I have no idea what a rara raisin is, but pretty sure it has nothing on samoas!
I would probably remind him that we owed money for the leftovers, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I expect the orders to turn out perfectly. Yes. If my child sold 87 boxes, I expect her to go deliver and collect money for 87 boxes. Damn fucking straight.

There's really no reason to expect otherwise. It's Girl Scouts. They stand for principles like honesty, caring, fairness, consideration... Not cookie theft, screwing over neighbors, and gluttony. They're earning their cookie badges, not their organized crime badges. What the OP's DH is doing, aside from screwing up a simple, straightforward, albeit time consuming task, it teaching his DD the opposite of what she should be learning from the cookie sale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not reading 14 pages but if nobody wants the thin mints I'll take all 7

Lol right?!
If this happened to my DH, which i could TOTALLY see, I would honestly just assume that he had bulk ordered with the hope of leftovers. I might gently chastise him for not overordering more of the GOOD cookies . I have no idea what a rara raisin is, but pretty sure it has nothing on samoas!
I would probably remind him that we owed money for the leftovers, though.

Jesus Christ, do you think her DH made up a fake identity on the order sheet to hide that he ordered extra cookies? There are no bulk orders or leftover cookies. DH kept something that belonged to his neighbor's. It's no different from if someone sold a bunch of Avon shit and never delivered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband takes my daughter around to sell Girl Scout cookies. " Thanks, DH! Good job!" All is fine. Thanks for participating for once in your child's life. Appreciate it.

When we get the cookies, they go around and deliver them. Still all is fine. Dh is feeling like superdad and bragging to everyone what he has done AND saying, "I can't wait for leftovers."

I try to explain: there will be no left-overs. You only get what you put in an order for.

I get an email this morning. "Here are the left-over cookies: 2 Rah-Rah Raisins, 7 Thin Mints, 10 Samoas, etc etc etc."

"Hmm?????" I ask, "Can you please clarify? Left-over??? Do you mean ones that have not yet been delivered???????????????????????????"

He calls me saying, "No, they're left-overs. We delivered them all. These are left-overs."

I try and I try to explain that there should be no left-overs; we only put in the order for what he had. He continues to insist, getting angrier and angrier, "I went out there and did all this cookie ordering!!! These are left-overs!!!!!!!"

THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. WE DID NOT GET EXTRAS. DH HAS LOST TRACK OF WHO ORDRED WHAT AND WHAT HE HAS NOW DELIVERED AND NOW OUR GS COOKIE SITUATION IS A TOTAL CLUSTER-FUCK.

Why cannot he handle the simplest situation?? Why? Why?? Why?????

lets see 19 boxes at $4 a box. we are talking $76 dollars. doesnt your weekly hair appointment cost over a $100?

come on now, this is absurd

and maybe it IS a typical issue in your marriage.

[Anonymous]

This would piss me off to no end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I'm laughing at this.

I'm trying to imagine what a marriage must be like where you just got bat shit crazy on your husband for screwing up the delivery of cookies.

I don't think I've ever yelled at my husband (except maybe in labor).

+1. I yell at my husband all the time but not for stupid crap like this. DCUM is putting way too much thought into cookie delivery. It's for the Girl Scouts- no one expects the orders to turn out perfectly. They're kids and it's a fundraiser. It's not a crisis if someone screws up a cookie order. And it certainly doesn't reflect badly on the family. Jeez!

Most people are expecting the cookies that they ordered and paid for. I'd would not assume a screw-up, especially when there's clearly an adult in charge.

I order cookies from everyone that shows up. and I don't really care if they never show up or if I get extra.

get a life women.

[Anonymous]

well, I would make DD and DH walk through the neighborhood with the cookies and ask every neighbor if they had orderd cookies and if they had received them. It wont be perfect but you might catch a few mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread still going?

I, for one, am not leaving until I get every Thin Mint, Do Si Do and Samoa (I'm old school GS) accounted for.
Is anyone thinking that there is a definite uptick in non-violent crimes in the area? First the Lent jacket and now missing Girl Scout cookies.
This is becoming a shady place.