I'm not very surprised by the fact that Lynn doesn't know what working in a book store really involves. Elly's clear ambition to die without getting a degree to shame her children into feeling bad about having emotional needs and needing care has something of an odd side-effect: her not knowing what she'd actually do with the glorified participation pin of a degree:
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What Elly wants Moira to hear: "I want to spend more time with my granddaughter."
What Moira would hear if she wasn't a toady: "I look at my granddaughter and see an excuse to quit. So here's some unconnected, irrelevant nonsense about wanting her not to quit like I did and am about to do again."
What a sane person would ask: "what on Earth could you quitting the bookstore have to do with a toddler 'finishing' an education she's barely started? What the hell are you talking about?"
Saud sane person would also add that Elly isn't going to spend time with her granddaughter anyway. She just wants a reason to stop trying and she can't say anything truthful like "But I have to breathe in AND out and that's just too haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard."
As we know, Elly needs a sounding board to bounce her ideas of victimization and martyrdom off of. That's where Moira comes in. What Moira offers her that Sue the librarian and Connie and Anne could not is the rare and valuable thing of being subordinate to Elly. Elly needs someone who is lower on the food chain than she is to feel as if she matters worth a damn. Children grow up and leave her behind to die forgotten but employees are lower people for the rest of their lives.
It turns out that this is probably why the Toon Team got shit-canned en masse: they didn't do their unofficial job of wading into a horrible situation and making matters worse because a nitwit can't get the idea through her head that you can't barge on in like a moron when crap happens.
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Why is Elly carrying that box? Is she planning to fill the box with diet books? Isn't she supposed to be working, or something like that?
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What Elly wants Moira to hear: "I want to spend more time with my granddaughter."
What Moira would hear if she wasn't a toady: "I look at my granddaughter and see an excuse to quit. So here's some unconnected, irrelevant nonsense about wanting her not to quit like I did and am about to do again."
What a sane person would ask: "what on Earth could you quitting the bookstore have to do with a toddler 'finishing' an education she's barely started? What the hell are you talking about?"
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Saud sane person would also add that Elly isn't going to spend time with her granddaughter anyway. She just wants a reason to stop trying and she can't say anything truthful like "But I have to breathe in AND out and that's just too haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard."
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As we know, Elly needs a sounding board to bounce her ideas of victimization and martyrdom off of. That's where Moira comes in. What Moira offers her that Sue the librarian and Connie and Anne could not is the rare and valuable thing of being subordinate to Elly. Elly needs someone who is lower on the food chain than she is to feel as if she matters worth a damn. Children grow up and leave her behind to die forgotten but employees are lower people for the rest of their lives.
It turns out that this is probably why the Toon Team got shit-canned en masse: they didn't do their unofficial job of wading into a horrible situation and making matters worse because a nitwit can't get the idea through her head that you can't barge on in like a moron when crap happens.
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The one where Moira thinks that diet books belong in the fiction section for all the good they do.
Looks as though they got moved to a dedicated "health and fitness" section.
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That's because Lynn used her imagination instead of learning how bookstores operate.
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It's the reason so many things aren't what they ought to be: her mind's eye has astigmatism.
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