No, not tossing cookies… FLIPPING cookies! I know, I know… just read on.
We have a “new guy” at work who just turned 21 last week. He is the baby of us all, lovingly nicknamed “Runt” by one of my co-workers. As you probably know, it is Girl Scout Cookie time, so I brought my daughter’s form in to work. People were asking for it, honest!
So Runt grabs the form and takes it to his cubicle. A few minutes later he returns and says, “I really mean this too.” I look down and see he has ordered twenty boxes of cookies. Twenty!
Twenty Boxes!? “Sure!,” he said, “I am going to sell them to my friends for five bucks!”
After a moment of complete silence, everyone started telling him how horrible he was, that it was stealing from the Girl Scouts, and so on. But it was kind of funny – after all, he is always trying to make or win money in one way or another. Several of us assumed he could never sell a $3.50 box of Girl Scout cookies for $5.00.
Today Runt came back from his 21st birthday trip to Atlantic City. I walked in and he announced, “I sold all my cookies!” “WHAT?!” “Yup, in the airport!” He said that people were waiting in line for things like $5.00 bags of M&M’s, so he approached them and said he would sell them a box of Thin Mints for $5.00. Twenty boxes of Girl Scout cookies later, he made a profit.
It was after this story that we all realized… he had just flipped the Girl Scout Cookies! Is it me, or is that just wrong?
