Eat Thin Mints at your own peril!

I have a sweet tooth.  BIG TIME.  No, I REALLY mean BIG TIME!!!  A few weeks ago, I was accosted by a cherubic bright young person whom I teach in Sunday School.  She informed me that it was time to buy Girl Scout Cookies.  She wanted to know would I be interested in purchasing any?

Well... out of the goodness of my heart I complied.  I thought this would even further demonstrate to the kids in my class, just how very much I care for them and want to support their endeavors. (Also, it didn't hurt that they were Girl Scout cookies-not wrapping paper or useless house trinkets.)  You see, I have this theory that Girl Scout cookies are better than store bought ones of the same kind.  I don't know how.  Maybe the wax that holds the chocolate on the cookie is better.  They seem more crisp and delightful.  Maybe fresher if you can go so far as to say that.  By the way, did I mention that I was referring to THIN MINTS?  I thought I should clarify as I'm told there are other kinds of GS cookies available.  I was surprised to discover this.  Why would they bother I ask?  Its puzzling to say the least.

I discovered a trick to make the cookies even more a delight.  FREEZE THEM!!!  I can't eat them any other way now.  Oh, maybe I could.  Maybe, if I was stranded on a deserted island with no access to a freezer, I  could.  Or possibly if I was being held against my will I could eat them at room temperature.  But only those dire circumstances would qualify.  

So a few weeks later I received said cookies.  It was a Sunday.  I ordered three boxes.  I promptly placed them in the freezer.  (After I scarfed some down on the way home.  Did I mention that after church hunger counted as a dire circumstance?)  

Later that afternoon, I had ingested a sleeve.

The next day was Monday.  I had a sleeve.

Sometime in the next 24 hours two more sleeves were gone.  I don't know how it happened.  I think my dog must be "sleep eating".

(By the way, is it acceptable to have a sleeve of thin mints for lunch?  I say yes!  After all, who wants to put a lunch together for just yourself. ) 

So I continued to watch my GS thin mint cookie supply dwindle. And it wasn't even late in the week yet.

By this point, I knew the remaining thin mints would feel abandoned and I truly did have stuff to do around the house (read).  I decided that I should just finish them off so they would leave me alone!  

AND I DID!  

And they were refreshing!

And I secretly wondered if the Girl Scouts were a front for some sinister organization whose goal was to get us addicted to the minty goodness.  

Then, the next week in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, I noticed an article titled "Roomies Do-si-do over box of cookies" by Jennifer Christman.  

It turns out that a Florida woman accused her roommate of eating her  -  you guessed it  -  THIN MINT cookies.  The accuser woke the accused and started assaulting her with a deadly weapon and blamed her for pilfering the cookies.  The accused indicated that she did not eat said cookies, but instead fed them to the the woman's hungry kids.  Then to appease the irate woman, she offered to pay $10 for the cookies. This did not appease her and insanity ensued until the woman's husband broke up the fight.  (Where was the woman's husband while this argument was escalating?  Probably in the kitchen cleaning up minty cookie crumbs. -Did anyone check his teeth?)

So you see, this is a true problem.  I'm afraid it's going on all around the country. So based on this madness, I 'm going to boycott Girl Scout cookies until around next February.  I don't know why-it just seems like 10 months should get my point across.  Anything longer would be unfair and cruel to the Girl Scout organization.

Much love and many laughs,

A