No Allbright, alas

[madrobins]

YG got all dressed up in her Scout best and we went downtown to the St. Francis Hotel for this big dinner at which Madeleine Allbright was being feted, and I dropped her off and came home...and then I got a call. Despite (as her scout leader said crankily) repeated confirmation that the troop was supposed to sell cookies at the event, the person organizing the Girl Scout presence at the event wasn't there, and the troop was not permitted to sell cookies. YG was deeply disappointed; she'd been looking forward to meeting Madeleine Allbright. She said she didn't want to go to school tomorrow because all her teachers would be so disappointed. I offered to write a note essentially saying "please excuse YG for not meeting Madeleine Allbright; it was due to circumstances beyond her control," but YG felt that was overkill.