re: Girl Scout Cookies

Ever notice how if you order Girl Scout cookies they come in weeks after the Girl Scouts are out selling them in front of grocery stores and banks? If you think about it, it's really quite an ingenious marketing tactic.

You look through the brochures and spot your favorite kind of cookie and order a couple of boxes. You sit at home and anxiously await their arrival, remembering how good they tasted from last year. Then you go to the store and see boxes and boxes of the ones you ordered sitting there and think, ''What the heck, might as well buy one box to nibble on while I wait for mine to come in.''

Ingenious indeed...