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My wife has been a GS troop leader for over five years and my daughter is in the troop, of course. Every year our living room gets filled with stacks of GS cookie boxes for the big push. Troop moms come at all hours to pick up their quota and there is quite an effort to sell them all. But they all go and people ask when we're going to start selling again. My son's CS/BS troop used to sell popcorn/etc. at supermarket entries and he did very well at it. But it's no longer about learning valuable life skills, it's about learning to market and to sell. Yes, very American indeed but what happened to summer camps and survival skills--both male and female? I don't touch those cookies because they are full of heart disease! Say the words "congestive heart failure" to yourself when you reach for the cookies and you'll stop in your tracks.
Don't get me started about Cub Scout dads using the Internet to find all the ways to trick-out their son's Pinewood Derby cars--and then letting the boy slop paint on it so it looks like the boy built the car.
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'84 Carrera Cabriolet
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