Smartest Kid Ever Sells Girl Scout Cookies Outside a Medical Marijuana Clinic
Danielle Lei of San Francisco is one smart kid. According to Mashable, the 13-year-old and her mom chose a diabolically brilliant spot to vend Girl Scout cookies: outside the green-painted walls of a medical marijuana clinic. Unsurprisingly, sales were, um, high?the resourceful Scout dispensed 117 cookie boxes in two hours, 37 more than she managed to sell outside a neighborhood Safeway grocery store the following day. The Green Cross signed on completely:
Setting up your cookie shop outside a pot clinic certainly hews to the spirit of the Girl Scout motto: ?Be prepared.? I also admire what is either epic stoner chillness or undiluted business acumen on the part of NorCal?s troop leadership: ?We?re not telling people where they can and can?t go if it?s a legitimate business,? shrugged a spokesperson.
Her laissez-faire attitude stands in refreshing contrast to the minicrises that sometimes bubble up when, say, a mom illicitly uses her Facebook page to advertise her daughter?s Thin Mints.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/02/20/girl_scout_sells_cookies_outside_a_green_cross_medical_cannibis_collective.html?wpisrc=burger_barglgl
Danielle Lei of San Francisco is one smart kid. According to Mashable, the 13-year-old and her mom chose a diabolically brilliant spot to vend Girl Scout cookies: outside the green-painted walls of a medical marijuana clinic. Unsurprisingly, sales were, um, high?the resourceful Scout dispensed 117 cookie boxes in two hours, 37 more than she managed to sell outside a neighborhood Safeway grocery store the following day. The Green Cross signed on completely:
"It's no secret that cannabis is a powerful appetite stimulant, so we knew this would be a very beneficial endeavor for the girls," Holli Bert, a staff member at The Green Cross, told Mashable in an email. "It's all about location, and what better place to sell Girl Scout cookies than outside a medical cannabis collective?"
Duuude. It is a rare magical moment when the invisible hand makes a shaka sign and supply wafts up to mingle with the perfumed plumes of demand. But another cool thing about this story, besides its 13-year-old heroine monetizing the munchies for a cause, is that it may have its origins in a scam that went viral: a Photoshopped image, later debunked by Gawker, of three Girl Scouts selling cookies in front of a Colorado pot shop. Witness an ephemeral Internet spoof converted into real-world inspiration, the boisterous Web justifying its existence for another day.Setting up your cookie shop outside a pot clinic certainly hews to the spirit of the Girl Scout motto: ?Be prepared.? I also admire what is either epic stoner chillness or undiluted business acumen on the part of NorCal?s troop leadership: ?We?re not telling people where they can and can?t go if it?s a legitimate business,? shrugged a spokesperson.
Her laissez-faire attitude stands in refreshing contrast to the minicrises that sometimes bubble up when, say, a mom illicitly uses her Facebook page to advertise her daughter?s Thin Mints.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/02/20/girl_scout_sells_cookies_outside_a_green_cross_medical_cannibis_collective.html?wpisrc=burger_barglgl
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