Staking Out Cookie Territory

Friday, March 11, 2005, at 06:39AM

By Eric Richardson

So yesterday I'm walking across campus to get on my bike and head home, and I pass a girl, probably seven or so years old, selling girl scout cookies in the center of campus. Now, that's nothing unusual. But this girl had a whole setup going. She had a table, a chair, and next to them she had probably a dozen boxes of cookies. Not the little for-sale boxes, but the boxes those boxes get shipped in. Either this girl is the ultimate in little girl scout businesswomen, or she had some help.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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