God vs. The Girls Scouts of Genesee Valley
During my tenture at ---- bank, I have come to know people from various walks of life.
(That is a very serious opening sentence, isn't it?)
Today I helped a couple of Girl Scout troop leaders get some financial matters squared away. That the gentle reader may know, girl scout bank accounts are practically a work of art- if you take away aesthetics. They are scary paperwork monsters.
My boss was laughing at my ill-fortune in being the new go-to person for girl scout accounts in our area.
This is where the story starts to get good. This is when you realize, ahhhhhh....this has all just been prefatory information.
My boss asks me if perhaps I was a former girl scout and that's why all the girl scout leaders were drawn to me. I assured him that, heavens, no! Jehovah's Witnesses wouldn't allow their children to get involved with bad associates like the girl scouts! Goodness knows what seemingly innocuous, but no doubt vile, moral indiscretions I would have been witness to had I been a part of such an ill-reputed, egregious group as the Girl Scouts!
It's funny. I used to spend so much time trying to defend my "beliefs"- which included a staunch stance on such things as having wind chimes, feng shui, joining the girl scouts, attending a prom, etc. Such useless time spent having to feel like a jerk because I wasn't 'supposed' to say, "You, too", when nice people wished me a merry christmas or when i couldn't attend the funeral of a friends' loved one because it was at a "church". Every other church unwittingly worships satan, you know- the poor bastards. What a bunch of arrogant bullshit!
I miss feeling like my parents might at least have nice thoughts about me, even if they didn't feel comfortable expressing them. I miss having my parents say nice things to me in my imagination and being able to actually believe that in real life, it could possibly happen. Now, even if I imagine having a nice conversation with my parents, I can't enjoy it because I know it's a sickening reality that they would never have a normal conversation with me. I can't imagine my way past it. It turns my stomach.
Somehow little pieces of life get wrapped up in the issues that trouble us. When that happens, you start to see girl scouts and have moral dilemmas and biting pangs of heart. I don't recommend putting yourself in that situation.
(That is a very serious opening sentence, isn't it?)
Today I helped a couple of Girl Scout troop leaders get some financial matters squared away. That the gentle reader may know, girl scout bank accounts are practically a work of art- if you take away aesthetics. They are scary paperwork monsters.
My boss was laughing at my ill-fortune in being the new go-to person for girl scout accounts in our area.
This is where the story starts to get good. This is when you realize, ahhhhhh....this has all just been prefatory information.
My boss asks me if perhaps I was a former girl scout and that's why all the girl scout leaders were drawn to me. I assured him that, heavens, no! Jehovah's Witnesses wouldn't allow their children to get involved with bad associates like the girl scouts! Goodness knows what seemingly innocuous, but no doubt vile, moral indiscretions I would have been witness to had I been a part of such an ill-reputed, egregious group as the Girl Scouts!
It's funny. I used to spend so much time trying to defend my "beliefs"- which included a staunch stance on such things as having wind chimes, feng shui, joining the girl scouts, attending a prom, etc. Such useless time spent having to feel like a jerk because I wasn't 'supposed' to say, "You, too", when nice people wished me a merry christmas or when i couldn't attend the funeral of a friends' loved one because it was at a "church". Every other church unwittingly worships satan, you know- the poor bastards. What a bunch of arrogant bullshit!
I miss feeling like my parents might at least have nice thoughts about me, even if they didn't feel comfortable expressing them. I miss having my parents say nice things to me in my imagination and being able to actually believe that in real life, it could possibly happen. Now, even if I imagine having a nice conversation with my parents, I can't enjoy it because I know it's a sickening reality that they would never have a normal conversation with me. I can't imagine my way past it. It turns my stomach.
Somehow little pieces of life get wrapped up in the issues that trouble us. When that happens, you start to see girl scouts and have moral dilemmas and biting pangs of heart. I don't recommend putting yourself in that situation.