Wednesday, 28 August 2024
The one where John pays for trying to get an insecure idiot to laugh at her own folly.
Synopsis: It's late at night so of course, Elly ambushes John with a question about her appearance that has no right answer because Elly has an unacknowledged hatred of being reassured.
Summary: A great way to aggravate Elly is to point out this tendency of hers ( Read more... )
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She doesn't get plastic surgery either. This is because she'd rather have a problem that she can hold over people's heads than be happy.
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Plastic surgery I remember in particular. Back in the Coffee Talk days, Lynn Johnston made the claim that she had never had plastic surgery in one of her Lynn's Notes. What she might not have realized was that we had seen her letters to Phyllis Diller, which the Diller estate put up for auction for some reason, in which Lynn talked about having plastic surgery. I wrote a note to the Coffee Talk stating something like it was common knowledge that she had plastic surgery, and Lynn was forced to admit she had. Connie's plastic surgery was based on Lynn's own experience.
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Connie can be said to be Lynn as she actually is so it's likely that she did.
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Having Connie do it may be Lynn's little way of saying that if Elly did not do it, she did not either.
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Connie and Elly are such close friends, Elly didn't know she had the surgery until after the fact. If Elly has to have a filling replaced I bet Connie gets daily anxiety-fest updates in the days leading up to it. Also, Connie must know that her face will take time to heal. This makes it look like either she hasn't looked at herself in the mirror, or when she looks at herself in the mirror she can't see what everyone else sees.
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Or she's freaking Elly out on purpose as payback for having to listen to her incessant bellyaching.
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Connie looking in the mirror thinks she looks better post-surgery than she looked before. The sad part is that she is probably right.
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insert Michael Jackson joke here
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What's the difference between Michael Jackson and a plastic grocery bag?
One is made of plastic...
And the other carries groceries.
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Also, as I said, Elly hasn't the least idea that when she's in one of her "Don't you dare reassure me because it means that you think my feelings are a pile of horse buns" phases
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The idea that Elly couldn't sleep because two adults were being "pushed" into something they didn't want to do always cracked me up. First, this is none of your business. Stop trying to be a damn empath when you showed zero empathy for your children when they needed it. Second, if Mike and Dee can't stand up to Dee's mom, they aren't ready to get married, period.
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But she isn't being supportive at all. She's reacting to the threat of someone else booming in Mike's ears. It's Martha all over again because she doesn't like competition.
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If Deanna and Mike did not want to have the expensive wedding they were not paying for, all they needed to do was tell Deanna's parents that they were already married and they would have saved themselves the hassle and saved the parents the money. Not only that but it would have made Deanna's mother happy that she was not "living in sin" with Mike. It is win-win-win.
The fact that they were going through with the wedding indicated that they actually wanted that expensive wedding, no matter how much they complained about it.
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my nephew and his wife got married at a little donut shop in Oregon, with almost no guests as it's the other side of the country and nobody- including them- had ever been there before. It was a trendy thing to do, I think. When they came back, they decided that they wanted a big reception to a wedding nobody went to. We had a pig roast, a big cake, music, the works, all outside on my parents' lawn. It was a lot of fun, but clearly they missed the big party after the wedding thing.
If Dee and Michael really didn't want a big wedding, they could have said "no." They didn't say "no," not because they were weak but because, as you say, they probably wanted the big wedding but wanted to make it seem like it was a sacrifice to them to have one. In other words, they acted exactly as you'd expect Pattersons to act.
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