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Dear Aunty Pam,

 

Do you have any advice or suggestions that will help me from being accosted by my co-workers and Facebook friends to buy Girl Scout cookies? It drives me crazy. Two women I work with have already let everyone else at our office know that they are taking orders for their daughters, and now I’m being tagged on Facebook by other friends with ‘cute’ photos of their daughters holding a box of cookies.

First of all, I’m really trying to eat healthy and don’t want all those sugary cookies. When I said that to one woman at work, she said, ‘Well, you could give them to a friend.’

The other thing is that I never even see their daughters doing any selling—it’s the mothers doing all the work, and the kids do nothing!

What can I say to make these women stop?

 

Signed,

Cookie Monster

 

Dear Cookie,

 

You’re talking to a woman who was never allowed into Girl Scouts after getting kicked out of the prerequisite ‘Bluebirds’ at age five. For cussin.’ So, perhaps it’s a bit of delayed envy, but I hear you and agree wholeheartedly.

On one hand, Girl Scouts is a wonderful organization and it’s always a good thing when parents aren’t staring at their phones and are actively engaged with their children. It’s quite another to go to work and have to endure a daily shakedown for something you don’t want. It was also bang out of order for someone to push food (or drink) on someone after being told you don’t wish to partake.

Aunty Pam doesn’t think you need a pithy response. A simple ‘No, thank you’ should suffice, and if these cookie kookies continue, just smile and say, “I appreciate you trying to unload a trough of cookies for your kids, but what I don’t appreciate is being made to feel uncomfortable for not buying them. Now, go away before I phone Hal in Human Resources.”

And that oughta do it.

 

Cheers, dears!!

Aunty Pam