Girl Scout Cookies

This is a story about Jeannette and Mark and what happened to their family. Mark was a very hard working guy putting in many hours at work. Jeannette was also hard working, taking care of the children, the household and doing community work. One of the tasks Jeannette did was to handle a Girl Scout Troop. This involved also handling sales of Girl Scout cookies. Jeannette was very good at getting tasks for Mark to do when he was not at his job. She kept Mark's plate full. He did a lot of driving to get the kids to places they needed to be, Jeannette wanted the kids to do everything and Mark was the means by which this was accomplished.

Through Jeannette's drive in selling Girl Scout cookies, she was able to beat other sellers. Her kids won awards for selling so much. Since Jeannette was so good at selling she was assigned handling sales for a whole district. One day Mark came back from work, opened the garage door, and saw so many boxes of cookies that he could not get his car into the garage. He closed the garage door and drove away, never to return. The Girl Scout cookies were the last straw.

Soon thereafter, the whole family was at my parents house for a Sunday dinner meal and card playing. Mark and Jeannette were missing and the story was going around. The ladies were all buzzing about it in an incredulous manner. How could this happen? Nobody had an answer for Mark's behavior but they found it unbelievable that he should leave his wife and children like that.

Marty watched all of this and addressed all the ladies with a most humorous line, a line that, if I did not guffaw out loud, I was laughing hilariously on the inside. He said: "All of the males in the family drew straws and Mark drew the shortest one." I know he meant to put all the ladies on notice that they might be next to get the same treatment and not to get high and mighty that it could not happen to them. I don't recall how the ladies took it I was too absorbed in laughing at the humor of the statement.