Tweet & You Shall Receive

This morning the Village Voice and Grub Street delivered the excellent news that the Girl Scouts are ingeniously opening pop-up shops around the city.  Here’s what I have to say: Where were you girls when I was desperately begging for help locating Thin Mints on Twitter?

Tweet and you shall receive.  That’s the lesson I learned last week when I received a UPS package from a complete stranger.  The package was filled with Girl Scout cookies – six boxes of Thin Mints and two boxes of Tagalongs to be exact.  (What a glorious sight!)  Just to be clear, I’ve neither met the sender nor is he a girl scout.  From what I gather, he’s a foodie who read my “Desperately Seeking Thin Mints” tweet and decided to help a fellow foodie in need.  It was a beautiful thing.

I was a Girl Scout myself, but those days are long gone and I don’t know a single girl scout now, though I plan to befriend a few at a pop-up this year to secure boxes for next season.  Just because I don’t live in the suburbs where Girl Scouts don’t typically travel door-to-door shouldn’t mean I have to go without my annual supply.  (Personally, I think the girls should sell them all year round, but that’s another issue.)  So I did the only thing I could think of and tweeted for help, suggestions, anyone who could point me in the right direction.  And @i8and8 heard my plea, then ordered and shipped them to me before he even got a check from me.  It was like he believed in some sort of foodie honor system of sorts.  (I sent him the check, of course!)

I really hope their pop-up shops take off, so I don’t have to hunt them down every year.  But if you can’t find something you’re craving, you might try tweeting and see who answers.   It could be as simple as a tip-off about the new sushi burrito truck and its lunchtime location, the best cup of coffee in an unfamiliar city, or in my case, Thin Mints.  God, I love twitter.