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...a steamy pile of capitalist American heartland tradition shit.

Harsh, I know, but don't judge until you've heard the whole story. We just answered the door to find a mother and her two little girls trudging away from our front door. It's below 0*F outside, the coldest it's been in Rockford all year. And these two little girls are out in the cold, walking from door to door through the snow, obviously miserable, trying to pawn cookies they don't really care about off on neighbors who really don't want to answer the door. (We didn't send them away. They left before we climbed over the mountain of debris blocking our door.)

They recently raised the price far higher than any cookies you buy in the store, and it's not because they're good cookies. They also made the boxes smaller. Why? The girls don't get any of that money, not more since the price increase. Why then? To make money for the Girl Scouts of America, the organization.



Chances are the mother could care less how many cookies they sell. The girls probably want to make sure they sell enough. Either that, or the mother is enthusiastic and the children are being dragged into it. By the look on the mother's face that I saw, nobody there was having a good time.

So why trudge around the snow in the middle of January to be repeatedly disappointed? Because this is the time of year that they have been allotted for selling cookies by the GirlScout HQ. Why not pick a warmer time? Well, consider this: Would you say "No" to a little girl standing out in the freezing cold?

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