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9 Mar, 11 tweets, 4 min read
A short story on how I thought I earned a box of Girl Scout Cookies and instead ended up with 27,456 Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies.

Time for a thread 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
In an effort to help a friend raise money for some Girl Scouts in Texas I tweeted out a referral link to their Troop with a link to purchase cookies. To amplify, I posted a poll to decide the best GS cookie, obvi NOT Thin Mints or Tagalongs.
Multisig owner and all-around decent Bostonian .@cmsholdings offered a simple reward – change my Twitter name to "Mr. Thin Minty Mint" and everyone (including myself) who liked the post would get some girl scout cookies.
Since my followers wanted cookies, I changed my name, thinking myself a hero. CMS owes everyone cookies, including me. Checkmate.
Next, CMS DM’d me asking me for my address so he could send me my cookies (I’m thinking a box). After all, I did my part, I’m Mr. Thin Minty Mint.
The next part can only be described as, disbelief.

Within minutes I got an email confirmation for 860 boxes on Thin Mints.

860 MF BOXXESS!
Gotta be a typo.

JFC, it’s not. First thought, hilarious, well played CMS.

Second thought, fiance’s gonna be ecstatic when I tell her we’re getting 860 boxes of cookies.
A few weeks later, I got my new office setup courtesy of a person I’ve never met.

I’ll be donating the boxes to friends, family, random Twitter associates like @NeerajKA, and of course, some local food banks/stations if they accept Thin Mints.
For the big brains who maybe Googled, “how many cookies per box of thin mints” and did the math – I’m shy about 64 cookies of 27520 cookies that come in 860 boxes because I ate two during the making of my throne.
Anyway, that's the story about how I now have 27,444 Thin Mints.

Now, go get yourself some Thin Mints or donate
girlscouts.org/en/adults/dona…
This image will now live forever as an NFT – Mr. Thin Minty Mint – that links to this Twitter as well. opensea.io/assets/0x495f9…

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Web3 is a shift in internet culture.

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