4/2014
The April 7, 2014 issue of Time magazine celebrated Katie Francis for selling 18,107 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in a 7 week period, setting an all-time record.
If 12-year-old Katie sold cookies 6 days a week during those 7 weeks, she sold an average of 431 boxes per day. If Katie attends school M-F, let’s presume she gets out of school at 3:30 pm and has a curfew of 10:00 pm. On Saturday, lets say she sells from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm with 1 hour for lunch, bath room visits and just plain goofing off, giving her 43.5 hours per week to sell cookies. She is selling 1 box per minute, 59.5 boxes per hour or 2587 boxes per week.
Horse puckey.
What is happening is that Mom and/or Dad is/are hustling off to sell cookies and enlist siblings, Uncles, Aunts and her parent’s friends to contribute to the endeavor.
Is it no wonder that we live in an entitlement world? Talk about helicopter parenting.
Oh, wait. I’m sorry. I didn’t read the fine print. It seems that Katie will get an advanced contract with the local GM dealer to sell GM vehicles. I guess Mom and Dad are going to go with her to work with GM selling cars for Katie.
In GM’s dreams.
Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave, thinking he just shouldn’t read Time magazine.
Weary.