Savannah.
It’s the first city in Georgia, founded in 1733. And it’s full of history.
Forsyth Park. Fort Jackson. Fort Pulaski. River Street. The Squares. Tybee Light. Johnny Mercer House.
Don’t know how much you know about Savannah. I grew up near there. Well, within TV-watching distance. My high school was in the same region as the Savannah schools, so there’d be travel to games throughout the year. Savannah was close, so I’m a little familiar with it.
But, no matter how much you know about Savannah, there is one aspect that you surely know about, even if you don’t know about its connection with Savannah.
The Girl Scouts were founded in Savannah in 1912.
Whatever you think of the Girl Scouts, you gotta admit: they make good cookies. I always look forward to the sale of Girl Scout Cookies. I stock up. You can freeze them, you know. They’ll keep. And you can enjoy them year-round. At least, I think you can enjoy them year-round. They don’t usually last that long around me.
Anyway, you can buy Girl Scout Cookies now. They’re selling them.
Only, you can’t buy them at the home of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts.
Nope. The address 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue is off-limits to the sale of Girl Scout Cookies.
Seems somebody complained last year.
So, the Girl Scouts cannot sell cookies in front of the home of the founder of the Girl Scouts.
I tell you, this country’s going to hell in a handbasket when Girl Scouts can’t sell cookies in at the home of the founder of the Girl Scouts.
I wonder who complained. Whoever it was complained hates America. I mean, really. Stopping little girls from selling cookies? Sounds like something somebody who voted for Barack Obama would do, that’s how un-American it is.
I’m thinking about heading to Savannah and offering to buy a busload of Girl Scout Cookies in front of the Juliette Gordon Low House. And, if anyone complained, they could bite be. While I’m biting into some Girl Scout Cookies.
The Army just published guidance on implementing the repeal of DADT. Now this. We are really going to hell in a handbasket.
Basil, I always accept them as “session cookies” because they just don’t last around here!! Once, I allowed them as permanent cookies, but they all disappeared and left this strange mass around my waist.
It would be more fun to find out who complained. Then set up sales all around the perimeter. Then give them away inside the perimeter. Invite the complainers. And if they don’t like the giveaway – TOUGH COOKIES!
Let the back alley cookie selling begin. Then we will have government agencies handing out clean cookies to us…. errr, you cookie junkies.
Tell them girls they can sell cookies in front of my church. Bit long of a commute. Lotsa drunk cowboys this week. Easy marks for spending money.
From the article:
“Jan McKinney, who heads product sales for the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia, and Randolph Scott, city of Savannah’s zoning administrator…investigated and realized the girls were setting up their table on the public sidewalk, which violates city ordinance. He looked for solutions. He called for a survey, hoping the Low house’s property line left some private space between the house and the sidewalk.”
Yep, Michael Moore is right – there’s nowhere near enough government regulation on business. We really need more government regulation.
A couple of years ago a street vendor complained of kids selling lemonade nearby. Police had told the kids to leave. The street vendor was made out as the bad guy for stopping children having a lemonade stand. However, he had a point. He had to purchase his right to vend at that location. He has to be there every day the whole day. Children selling lemonade nearby for a couple of hours was unfair competition. They did not purchase vending rights. Their parents paid for supplies. They were taking away his customers.
Is nothing sacred? The City of Savannah can kiss my big hairy left toe.
@hadsil,
I’m not seeing what the street vendor’s point supposedly was. If kids selling lemonade are destroying your business, your food must either be crap or way overpriced. There’s really no excuse for a grown man to shut down some kids’ lemonade stand.
Walmart is usually pretty good about letting kids set up their fundraising tables near the entrances. Saw some Girl Scouts there this past weekend(Here, locally). I had already bought my years supply from one of our church’s female yoots.
Hello all. This is Michelle Obama. I am the one who complained about the Girl Scout cookies. I feel that preventing these cookies being sold in Savannah is a symbolic gesture in turning our young women away from the ill effects of sugar and towards a healthier, more nutritious alternative. You’ll thank me later; I know what’s best for you.