Would You Like A Cookie??

Anakah or Ani as we tend to refer to our near resident granddaughter, we are one of those lucky sets of grandparents who have a granddaughter in close proximity. Both parents work and with Dianne home at the time its a natural that the kid is over to our house numerous times during the week and usually at least once on the weekends. Anakah is one of the fabrics of our life tapestry(thanks Carol King ).

Ani's latest challenge has been to dive into Girl Scouts, I kinda think for the outfits—Anakah knows what looks good and what looks good on her. She has been in the organization a couple of months now and has not tired yet of the meetings, other scouter or the leadership. I thought sure with the onset of the annual girl scout cookie drive that Ani would start cooling on her feeling for the quasi-militaristic out fit. Saturday Anakah was at our house with her official Girl Scout cookie order form. And ready to attack our neighborhood.

Two years ago, during the summer Anakah made a small fortune selling soda's in front of the house July morning and afternoon snagging many of the cars cruising the neighborhood scouting out the garage sales. The kid can sell she is a natural, she just needs an audience. It was after lunch when Dianne and Anakah took off to make the rounds and see what could be sold and a few hours later returned with nearly $200.00!!!! Granted Girl Scouts price on cookies has sky rocketed to $3.50 a box but still my granddaughter trooped up to every door, knocked and widely smiled at the neighbor who broke down and grabbed for their purses and checkbooks and these were not event the next door neighbors who we held the most hope for sales.

Now its my turn—so impressed with Anakah's sales I volunteered to take a sign-up sheet to the office and see what damage I could do with the staff.. I know this is Anakah's project but I think she did quite Ok on her own and if she had a day off of school and could assault the office her self. I know she would be in here making the sale. I waited for staff to be in and really it's only four staff besides me but the Director is a former Girl scouter and there is another grandfather here even older then me, if that is possible. Nearly the whole staff committed. Eleven boxes—unbelievable.

Believe me I know how obnoxious these sale programs get themselves into and I know how obnoxious it is to have some yokel at the office pressuring you to buy this or that for their kid or in this case grand-kid and I have paid my dues, purchasing everything from coupon books, candy bars and magazines...I am just trying to get a little back.