Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:08     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
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?????



I know this is not true, because on NO PLANET does any girl scout have thin mints or samoas left over.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:08     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead


OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.



Normally the leftover goes to the troop and they try to sell them at a table at Giant or Safeway.


Wong. The ones sold later at a table at Giant or Safeway are picked up later. They are under a completely different accounting system. They are not the "leftovers" from the house-to-house cookie sales.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:07     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.


Wrong. GS National Capital Area isn't fucking Amazon.


Who are you and where have you sold GS cookies? You order x number of boxes of x type of cookies, and you get that many, and that is it. You do not get a whole freaking case of them and then have "leftovers."

I call troll.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:07     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. It will reflect poorly on the family not just on DH. They will not support the kid in whatever else she raises money for. And, honestly, when the neighbors are thinking about this situation they will be thinking about the mother bc the father was just so sweet taking his daughter around and can't possibly be accountable for the fiasco because he is just a dumb man. Drives me nuts.


Really? Does messing up a cookie order "reflect poorly on the family"? Newsflash- your neighbors don't spend that much time thinking about your family in these terms. And if they do, it means they have no life, so why would you care? If someone is so petty that he or she were to judge me for messing up a cookie order, I'd be quite happy not to have anything to do with that person anyway.


+1000

If you are a family who is sitting around discussing how a cookie mix-up "reflects poorly" on the neighbors down the street, you have much bigger problems than a box of Thin Mints on the counter that should have been two boxes of Tagalongs.


The neighbors will understand. They'll just be happy it didn't happen to them and their kid, lol. But the lesson that Op's child takes from this is what matters...


With this level of involvement/screwing up by the dh, I'm assuming the daughter is pretty young and doesn't know that anything is amiss.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:07     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead


OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.



Normally the leftover goes to the troop and they try to sell them at a table at Giant or Safeway.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:06     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.


Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.


This is completely wrong. Your customers ordered 7 Thin Mints? You pick up 7 Thin Mints. Like the PP above said, ti is a grid with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person orderd and paid for. You sign off on it when you pick up your cookies from the cookie mom.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:06     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead


OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.



This. Every GS parent knows this. Sounds like OP is pretty clueless about what her child is doing. You owe your husband a serious apology for being a nasty, nasty hag.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:05     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.


Wrong. GS National Capital Area isn't fucking Amazon.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:04     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead


OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.

Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:04     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.


Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:03     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
OP, you chose this man. You don't get to complain.

Why, why, why do people like GS cookies? Beats me.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 12:00     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 11:56     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. It will reflect poorly on the family not just on DH. They will not support the kid in whatever else she raises money for. And, honestly, when the neighbors are thinking about this situation they will be thinking about the mother bc the father was just so sweet taking his daughter around and can't possibly be accountable for the fiasco because he is just a dumb man. Drives me nuts.


Really? Does messing up a cookie order "reflect poorly on the family"? Newsflash- your neighbors don't spend that much time thinking about your family in these terms. And if they do, it means they have no life, so why would you care? If someone is so petty that he or she were to judge me for messing up a cookie order, I'd be quite happy not to have anything to do with that person anyway.


+1000

If you are a family who is sitting around discussing how a cookie mix-up "reflects poorly" on the neighbors down the street, you have much bigger problems than a box of Thin Mints on the counter that should have been two boxes of Tagalongs.


The neighbors will understand. They'll just be happy it didn't happen to them and their kid, lol. But the lesson that Op's child takes from this is what matters...
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 11:53     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. It will reflect poorly on the family not just on DH. They will not support the kid in whatever else she raises money for. And, honestly, when the neighbors are thinking about this situation they will be thinking about the mother bc the father was just so sweet taking his daughter around and can't possibly be accountable for the fiasco because he is just a dumb man. Drives me nuts.


Really? Does messing up a cookie order "reflect poorly on the family"? Newsflash- your neighbors don't spend that much time thinking about your family in these terms. And if they do, it means they have no life, so why would you care? If someone is so petty that he or she were to judge me for messing up a cookie order, I'd be quite happy not to have anything to do with that person anyway.


+1000

If you are a family who is sitting around discussing how a cookie mix-up "reflects poorly" on the neighbors down the street, you have much bigger problems than a box of Thin Mints on the counter that should have been two boxes of Tagalongs.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2016 11:52     Subject: This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
I would be upset because the whole order/delivery process was handled so irresponsibly. Your husband's attitude that - "Haha! Look at all the free cookies I get!" is awful. The neighbors paid money for those cookies. What a terrible lesson to teach your daughter...

You are right to step up and step in to try to correct this. I say this as a former scout parent. You are setting a good example for your daughter that sometimes we all make mistakes and things don't go as planned. We always Do Our Best to make things right in a situation like that. If I could not make those deliveries, I would give those cookies back to the Cookie Mom and explain what happened. No way would I let my family eat them. No way.

If your daughter participates in a fundraiser again it is o.k. to stick to a smaller route until she understands how the process works. I think you are doing a good job Op.