As promised, here's how John reacts to the idea of having a fiftieth birthday party:
He talks a god game abt fifty only being a number but when the chips ae down, we get crap like this:
because time also flies when you're a sulking infant:
who takes himself way too seriously:
The interesting thing is that Elly has the sense to have the simple celebration she wants for herself for the same stupid reason that only makes sense to someone with severe social phobia:
With that last one, since we know John never did anything like that for Elly; this is clearly a shot at Rod Johnston. In 1999, Lynn would have been 52, so this moment had already passed.
As always, Rod a good scraping because Lynn never bothered learning that he can't read minds. She thinks he's being deliberately obtuse when he doesn't know her needs because she's a seventy year old toddler.
I can imagine Rod in 1999 reading this one on Lynn's drawing board right after she did it and thinking, "Dammit! That was 2 years ago. Is that the reason why she has been mad for the last 2 years?"
I can also imagine her huffing and puffing about him pretending that he did not know. She never bothered learning that other people cannot, by definition, see the world as she does.
That was always a tricky thing with her writing where she would expect the reader to know the things that were in her head and not on the page. The old monthly letters were often a shock because they would tell us things we readers would never have guessed.
The problem with dealing with the absurd monstrosity that is the high school mean girl is her rock-ribbed refusal to allow for the possibility that her prey has no idea what he or she did.e might as well try explaining that getting upset about is when atomic crazy has babies with shit stupid.
We had a huge surprise party for my mother when she reached her 90th birthday. And it didn't include any of the maudlin sentiments John and the others are entertaining to "celebrate" his 50th- it's more like "you are taking your first step into the grave."
Are the laws different in Canada? "I'm a senior now?" At FIFTY? What the hell? When my dad was 50, he had just started a new job which he would hold until his retirement 17 years later. What is this nonsense?
As promised, here's how John reacts to the idea of having a fiftieth birthday party:
He talks a god game abt fifty only being a number but when the chips ae down, we get crap like this:
because time also flies when you're a sulking infant:
who takes himself way too seriously:
The interesting thing is that Elly has the sense to have the simple celebration she wants for herself for the same stupid reason that only makes sense to someone with severe social phobia:
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With that last one, since we know John never did anything like that for Elly; this is clearly a shot at Rod Johnston. In 1999, Lynn would have been 52, so this moment had already passed.
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As always, Rod a good scraping because Lynn never bothered learning that he can't read minds. She thinks he's being deliberately obtuse when he doesn't know her needs because she's a seventy year old toddler.
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I can imagine Rod in 1999 reading this one on Lynn's drawing board right after she did it and thinking, "Dammit! That was 2 years ago. Is that the reason why she has been mad for the last 2 years?"
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That was always a tricky thing with her writing where she would expect the reader to know the things that were in her head and not on the page. The old monthly letters were often a shock because they would tell us things we readers would never have guessed.
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The problem with dealing with the absurd monstrosity that is the high school mean girl is her rock-ribbed refusal to allow for the possibility that her prey has no idea what he or she did.e might as well try explaining that getting upset about is when atomic crazy has babies with shit stupid.
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We had a huge surprise party for my mother when she reached her 90th birthday. And it didn't include any of the maudlin sentiments John and the others are entertaining to "celebrate" his 50th- it's more like "you are taking your first step into the grave."
Are the laws different in Canada? "I'm a senior now?" At FIFTY? What the hell? When my dad was 50, he had just started a new job which he would hold until his retirement 17 years later. What is this nonsense?
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John's just an asshole who thinks like his idiot wife.
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