Come back a few years with me…
The year is 2010. My divorce was final in October 2009, and I was homeschooling my three children (ages 11, 10 and 7).
I wanted a distraction for my 10 year old daughter and decided Girl Scouts was the way to go. We joined a local troop that had several other home school moms as well as some girls with whom Madison was already acquainted. It was fun, they did crafts, service projects, helped in the community, and built relationships with each other.
Then…. it was COOKIE SELLING TIME…
She wanted to sell the most, and we are both competitive, but we dropped the ball and fell short. I can’t remember the exact number, but she sold around 150 boxes. I purchased 4 of those boxes (I know, that is A LOT) but I only did it because someone told me that they would stay good in the freezer for up to a year! I got 2 boxes of shortbread cookies, and 2 boxes of the AMAZING Tagalongs.
I stuck the shortbread cookies and one of the tagalongs in the freezer and opened the other package to eat a couple, okay a FEW. Three hours later the box was empty…
I went to the freezer and opened the other package…Some of them weren’t completely frozen yet. I ate 3, decided it was beyond ridiculous to eat that many cookies in one day and proceeded to finished the package off the next day!
I can’t even tell you where my head was… Did I mention I was recently divorced, raising 3 kids and had minimal income? I was stress eating for sure! Long story short…
…I ATE SEVENTEEN BOXES OF TAGALONGS…
It only took two weeks to polish them off. I called my sister in a panic…
Harmony: “Hello”
Me: “I ate 17 boxes of tagalongs!”
Harmony: “What? I thought you only bought 2 boxes?”
Me: “I did, I ate OTHER peoples cookies! I mean I don’t know what to do, or what is wrong with me, but I have to call Edie (as well as several others) and say ‘I have your caramel delights and thin mints, but I ate your tagalongs, so you only owe me $7, instead of $10.50’, I am SO embarrassed….”
Harmony: (laughing A LOT) “Dude…That’s bad.”
I immediately made the calls of shame, delivered the remaining cookies ASAP and promptly made Madison quit the Girl Scouts.
Don’t feel bad for her, she was losing interest before the incident…this just sealed the deal. I managed to avoid Girl Scout Cookies like a drug dealer avoids the cops for several years, and then found out that Dollar General could be my new pimp by selling delicious rip off versions of Girl Scout Cookies…
I finally swore off Tagalongs, but they were easily replaced by a new addiction in 2013…
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