Things Ann Knows Nothing About

[kakeochi_umai]

So I just read a snark of Welcome Back Stacey in bsc_snark, containing the following comment:

And the process sounds completely unrealistic. First of all, Mrs. M doesn’t even call a real estate agent until they get to Stoneybrook. Um…what? You mean she didn’t already have one? Then the agent just happens to have a bunch of houses available for them to

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[jadore_histoire]

Also, in the Chain Letter book, Stacey owns up to dying her hair red then going back to blonde in the span of time that her mother was out of the house so she didn't suspect a thing.

And pretty much kids in general. Would kids always be so willing to do work/community service/projects/arts and crafts everytime they were babysat instead of watch tv or just sit and read a book? I only remember doing a craft once with a babysitter and that's because my mom told her beforehand we could do it!

[glitterberrys]

Haha, yeah, my first thought was "Besides child and teenager development? Or pop culture post-1960?"

[kakeochi_umai]

pop culture post-1960?

Oh God, how did I miss that?!

[glitterberrys]

That pretty much goes without saying ;) One of these days I'm going to count every freakin' I Love Lucy reference in the series.

[glitterberrys]

Horseback riding. Mallory and the Dream Horse makes me headdesk a lot. Also, international adoption.

[jadore_histoire]

YES! It took my mom's friend almost a year to finalize her son's adoption from Russia. And even then, she still had to go there to get him. Watson and Elizabeth it was done awfully quickly when they got Emily Michelle.

[lilysela]

The whole adoption of Emily Michelle seemed pretty screwy. I know there was a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff but I always thought that social workers came to talk to the kids who'd be getting a new brother and sister and check out the house etc. But then again Watson *IS* a millionaire!

[kittikattie]

He totally slipped some money under the table.

[cassandraclue]

I don't think walking unsteadily on a plane is that inaccurate. Maybe I'm just extraordinarily uncoordinated, but I have been racking up frequent flyer miles since age 5 and fly transatlantically every three months or so and I am pretty unsteady walking down plane aisles, even when there's no turbulence.

[kakeochi_umai]

Really? I just walk normally.

[cpennylane]

This is way OT, but you just reminded me that I needed to go deal with my airline mileage problem; Thanks.

Oh, and yes. I also am not always super steady on a plane either.

[kakeochi_umai]

Airline mileage problem? *pictures this scene*

John Beckwith: That brings us to the question of frequent flyer miles.
Mrs. Kroeger: I want them.
John Beckwith: Know what we're gonna do? We're gonna split them right down the middle. How would that be, Mr Kroeger?
Mr. Kroeger: It would be not good at all. I earned those miles.
Mrs. Kroeger: Yeah, you earned them flying to Denver to meet your whore.
Mr. Kroeger: She's not afraid to express herself sexually if that's what you mean.
Mrs. Kroeger: She's a stripper, for God's sake.
Mr. Kroeger: She is not.
Mrs. Kroeger: Her name is Chastity. She is white trash, same as you. Hillbilly!

[cheesydorito]

Susan's autism? Or rather, Kristy's reaction to it and the way it was dealt with?

[flipflopgoddess]

Susan's autism is fairly accurate. My brother is autistic and goes to a special needs school, so it makes sense. Kristy's reaction, however, does not. An autistic kid who doesn't know you would have a fit if you tried to pick her up. They also don't just "get better" and it's not unfair to send them to a special school - the mainstream schools are genuinely unprepared when it comes to these things.

[cassandraclue]

Oh and obviously ann knows nothing about 13 y/o boys. How many people's dreams were shattered when they got to middle school and no boy acted like logan bruno?

[ifandonlyif]

or when they went on family vacations and didn't meet some boy who sent them secret admirer notes/swept them off their feet/gave them their first kiss?

and even if this WAS the case, which is highly unlikely, that the parents would be okay with it? i remember on a big family vacation when some random dude showed interest in hanging out with me when i was 14 and all the parents on the trip were like, no way, out of the question.

[amitabhbachchan]

OMG, yes! When Mary Anne and Stacey go to Sea City with the Pikes, don't they go out alone with Alex and Toby, whom Mr. and Mrs. Pike never even bother meeting, possibly because they were too busy arguing with Mallory about a sparkly bathing suit she smuggled to the shore.

[ifandonlyif]

HA! mallory would probably shit bricks over those sparkly american apparel bikinis.