So, today I sent an email asking, "Who are the girls selling baked goods to on Saturday?"
And I got a reply that said, "Anyone who might want to buy them!" She then went on to say that this event is open to the public.
Okay. Again. In this troop, we're talking about girls who are 6 and 7. How many events do they need to attend that are "open to the public?" To me that = ad in the paper saying, "PEDOPHILES! GET YOURSELVES TO WORLD FRIENDSHIP DAY!!!! IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!!! (Maybe bring a couple bucks for baked goods. Good conversation starter.)"
Also, not to be a bitch, but didn't we just sell baked goods to everyone in the world not even a month ago? So maybe couldn't World Friendship Day just be a thing between Girl Scout troops where they learn about other cultures and share snacks? Might that be a better plan? Yeah, I thought so.
I skipped the practice-our-German-song meeting tonight because 1) no one who has driven Miss A to meetings before called to see if she wanted/needed a ride, 2) I hate asking for rides from people and try to ration my requests for help, and 3) we were eating dinner at the time I would have needed to pack everyone up. Oh yeah, and 4) Hanes was asleep on the sofa and everyone was in their jammies at the time I would have needed to collect her.
I desperately hope we all "forget" about Friendship Day on Saturday.
PETTY CONFESSION
I have diminished respect for this woman because she has spelled her name wrong in her email. Not in her email address. Not in the body of her email. No, her name is spelled wrong in the part where your name is listed in everyone's in-boxes. In the header of every email. Let's say her name is Jennifer. When she set up her account, in the part where it asks, "Name," she put, "Jennfier." And then left it that way forever.
And I know that's not just an alternate spelling her parents used, because she signs her emails, "Jennifer." But my in-box says they're from "Jennfier."
As you all know, I misspell things regularly. But lady, it's YOUR OWN NAME. And I decided the reason this has gone beyond slightly amusing and into the realm of irritating and respect-diminishing is because it showcases everything that has made my Daisy Scouts experience negative. It shows a real lack of attention to detail. It was either a sloppy mistake that's gone unnoticed since then, or she noticed but can't figure out how to correct it and hasn't bothered to find out.
Everything for this troop has been last-minute (like a couple days' notice, or finding out past the deadline and having to scramble, or having to cancel something the girls had been told about because the deadline was missed) and really disorganized. It is exactly like it would be if I were running it, although due to my self-loathing I might be doing a better job because this much failure would make me suicidal. Seriously. (I'm not saying it's healthy.) But that is why I didn't sign up to run the freaking troop.
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Jen, my experience with girl scouts has been quite similar. Disorganization reigns, no one volunteers for anything and Daisy's is only the beginning of the mayhem and foolishness. Once they bridge to girl scouts they will continue to try to get you to lead them straight into the woods for a week at camp. Kill me now. I walked right out of that meeting and never came back. BTW we blew of friendship day too.
ReplyDeletei admit i snorted in laughter about the name misspelling in the main "who are you" part. i know exactly what you're talking about and still have a dumb grin on my face about it. can't relate to the girl scouts thing but it sounds freaking dreadful. i'm annoyed just reading about it!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is too bad. My girl scout troop was great - run by a woman in her 20s who liked kids but wasn't ready to have them herself. We went camping and did fun things. Plus, since she didn't have kids she was pretty organized!
ReplyDeleteYour petty confession cracked me up. That would annoy me too.
ReplyDeleteWe have World Thinking Day tomorrow, not Friendship Day. I think Thinking Day is tied to some silly Girl Scout anniversary (we took a tour of the Council last weekend), but I can't remember what the anniversary is. Oh, no, wait. Here's a link: http://www.worldthinkingday.org/en/about/History
Apparently it's the birthday of two Girl Scout founding peeps.
Anyway, here in our town we have World Thinking Day. Last year and this year, we all get together with other troops and each pick a country that we represent at the table with things like food and clothing and photos from that country. Last year, I helped escort our little Daisy troop around to other tables. We adults actually got yelled at for sampling the food on the tables. I thought that was very unhospitable!
I feel your Daisy pain, my friend.
My own pet peeve is the 'your' instead of 'you're' which isn't to say that I've never done it, but, I can promise I don't use them interchangeably as part of my steady diet. I honestly can't figure out how to change my sender name in Google, that being said, it isn't spelled wrong either.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, World Thinking/Friendship Day was held in the middle school cafeteria and the troops all got a little passport with X number of spots for stamps, and that number was the magic number of tables we could visit to try their food. If there was a fee to attend, I don't recall. *end of WTF Day*
ohmygod - I was all about this when my girls were in scouts. I used to call them "Future Saleswomen of America." It wasn't just cookies, it started out with calendars, then cookies, then something else.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they had any time at all leftover from the fundraising they might learn to follow a hiking trail or something, but usually they just went on a hayride at some crappy pumpkin farm and called it a year.
Ok, I'll stop now.
as a former GS employee, I have so say, I am in no way surprised! my local council set up a 'private' event for their girl scouts, but then advertised to the public that it was going to be happening. It's like saying, "here's an opportunity to have thousands of young girls in one place... come stare." (or worse) disorganization is the name of their game... that and death by cookies.
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny, thank you for sharing your petty confession - makes me feel less ridiculous. When I see friends misuse "your" on Facebook or things of that nature, it takes everything inside me not to point it out. I can only imagine the nails on the chalkboard feeling of seeing someone with their own name spelled incorrectly. lol.
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