Hi! Did you know that late September is peak Boy Scout popcorn season? All across the land, Scouts are tightening their neckerchiefs and heading out to hawk caramel corn to their uninterested neighbors. Selling popcorn was the bane of my existence, and of the various autumnal traumas of my youth (fighting with my ex-stepdad about leaf raking, not getting cast in the fall play junior year), it’s the one I flashback to the most this time of year.
My son was briefly a Boy Scout, and yes, that popcorn is EXPENSIVE. Also, his troop also sold wreaths and we're Jewish, so my husband had to have some deep thoughts about that. He decided it's not like it was a Christmas tree, so it was kosher, so to speak. My son may have sold just as many wreaths as popcorn...
as someone who was also a boy scout during that period, my troop decided to forgo popcorn sales becsause of the cost. instead we sold...........,,,..,,,,PINESTRAW!! which in some ways feels more humiliating, especially when they could pay an additional $20 for us to spread it for them. and i think the only prizes we got were like....a sleeping bag mat? so that's what i got for my underpaid labor being, basically, a landscaper LOL
My son was briefly a Boy Scout, and yes, that popcorn is EXPENSIVE. Also, his troop also sold wreaths and we're Jewish, so my husband had to have some deep thoughts about that. He decided it's not like it was a Christmas tree, so it was kosher, so to speak. My son may have sold just as many wreaths as popcorn...
as someone who was also a boy scout during that period, my troop decided to forgo popcorn sales becsause of the cost. instead we sold...........,,,..,,,,PINESTRAW!! which in some ways feels more humiliating, especially when they could pay an additional $20 for us to spread it for them. and i think the only prizes we got were like....a sleeping bag mat? so that's what i got for my underpaid labor being, basically, a landscaper LOL
Omg I literally had to google pinestraw... what an idea