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January 9, 2006
Moral Imperative
It's girl scout cookie time.
This means it is a must for you to go out and buy at least 2 boxes of Thin Mints, and throw them in the freezer until after dinner. Send the kids to bed... early, and once they are fast asleep, pour a glass of milk or a cup of coffee and sit on the couch in a pair of ugly assed baggy sweats, and cookies in hand.
Eat entire box of said Minty Chocolaty goodness. No napkins allowed. I find it helpful to keep one sleeve in the freezer while you devour the first in a gluttonous frenzy. While chewing remind yourself how this, like Christmas, comes once a year. Think not of what you are consuming for it's lack of nutrition, but for the emotional ties it has with your own long gone days of girl scouts... and how your mom always bought the most boxes to get you that silly stuffed pegasus animal, or the little stuffed eagle. Plus, you had the perk of having all the goodies left in the house.
I, myself, relish the memories of eating frozen thin mints while watching classic cartoons with mom, laughing our asses off at Tom and Jerry, with mouths full of black paste carpeting our teeth. (This is not a childhood memory, mind you. We still watch cartoons together.)
Don't feel guilty about it until tomorrow, when the kids find the empty box on top of the trash can, and you realize how many calories and grams of fat you have ingested. Promise yourself to never do it again.
Posted by TheFreud at January 9, 2006 9:33 PM
Comments
I ate a whole box of these in 1 day once.
Posted by: Sports Bettor at January 9, 2006 11:21 PM
Ah, thin mints!! The best cookies the Girl Scouts ever sold. Yummy, yummy, yummy. You can't eat just one box. ;-)
Posted by: Ananke at January 10, 2006 3:07 PM
You both used to leave a few for Dad, but stuck me with selling them to all my Employees... LOL
Posted by: Dad at January 10, 2006 9:56 PM
