greybeard
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It's Girl Scout cookie time again. Little bitty box now $5. AND..the mommies are outside walmart selling for the girls. Bought 4 boxes last night (my patriotic duty and my wife's penchant for those mint thins) then got into it with the mommy over a receipt.
"Would you like a receipt?"
Yes please.
"Emailed?"
No.
"Do you have a phone?"
Yes
"Hold it up here"
It's hanging on the wall at home. Paper receipt please. (little girl beside her looks at me strangely..
Mommy: "I can't do that. I don't have paper receipts"
Just write it on the back of the box.
She scrambles in her cash box and has no pen. "I can email it to you."
I say: I don't want to have to keep a digital receipt file for the next 7 years. I thought your girl scout motto was 'Be Prepared'.
Sigh..
Me: Hold my cookies, I'll be right back.
Into Walmart, buy a pen and a book of receipts.
I come out, pick up my 4 boxes of cookies and hand the little girl the pen and receipt book. Point up to my Marine cap. 'Adapt, Improvise, Overcome'.
Get my paper receipt just as a somewhat younger guy behind me says "I can remember when they were 3 dollars a box.".
Me: "I can remember when they were a buck and a quarter and a bigger box and the girls themselves came to your front door on a bicycle and sold the cookies themselves or while mommy waited in the car".
Told the little girl "Just keep the pen. You'll meet a boy soon enough that is going to want your phone number"
Little girl grinned.
Mommy looked at me like I had shot her dog...
"Would you like a receipt?"
Yes please.
"Emailed?"
No.
"Do you have a phone?"
Yes
"Hold it up here"
It's hanging on the wall at home. Paper receipt please. (little girl beside her looks at me strangely..
Mommy: "I can't do that. I don't have paper receipts"
Just write it on the back of the box.
She scrambles in her cash box and has no pen. "I can email it to you."
I say: I don't want to have to keep a digital receipt file for the next 7 years. I thought your girl scout motto was 'Be Prepared'.
Sigh..
Me: Hold my cookies, I'll be right back.
Into Walmart, buy a pen and a book of receipts.
I come out, pick up my 4 boxes of cookies and hand the little girl the pen and receipt book. Point up to my Marine cap. 'Adapt, Improvise, Overcome'.
Get my paper receipt just as a somewhat younger guy behind me says "I can remember when they were 3 dollars a box.".
Me: "I can remember when they were a buck and a quarter and a bigger box and the girls themselves came to your front door on a bicycle and sold the cookies themselves or while mommy waited in the car".
Told the little girl "Just keep the pen. You'll meet a boy soon enough that is going to want your phone number"
Little girl grinned.
Mommy looked at me like I had shot her dog...