In 1995 this was a fairly modern invention. I believe this is its one and only appearance.
As far as the story goes, it is interesting to that Elly is claiming bumper to bumper traffic when she is going to be walking into work with some doughnuts. I would think that would be a giveaway where she really has been. On the other hand, it may be entirely possible that Elly will consume everything she buys on the drive to work.
An Elly with a car phone can't be caught flatfooted by an empty house.
No wonder it only appears here so she can stick with the classic way of getting her bowels in an uproar because Liz wants the social life she was too gutless to actually have denied by her mother:
"I told April she could have some friends over because I thought you'd be here to supervise them. I was hoping to have some time to myself this evening."
So sure, April, you can have friends over- it won't conflict with my plans. I'll just have Liz watch all of you while I disappear somewhere.
I just can't with this woman. What. The actual. Hell.
It's not just incels who dismiss being around children as being unimportant. It all goes back to the cover of that book I linked to. Lynn is using Elly as a mouthpiece for her outrage at the unfairness she experiences when told that giving birth means not being able to live the life she lived before her drunken-stupor induced pregnancies.
All of the Pattersons view being asked to make a decision, to choose between one option or another, as massively unfair. Michael is told to fire someone; he ducks by firing himself. He has to be dragged to look at a place to house his family and hopes it won't work out. Liz won't sign a contract or a lease. These people are terrified of responsibility and commitment. They worship inertness and think that the universe should bend toward them so they don't have to step up. Pathetic.
They're terrified of having to own things if things go wrong because they assume that everyone is like them. Mike dreams of being a slumlord because weak people have to be punished. Elly cannot forgive because she has real feelings. These people are not scum. Scum is what they aspire to someday be.
Lynn seems to have no idea how these people would look to the outside world. A grown woman who abandons her boyfriend to move back in with her mother because she's homesick. A grown man living in his sister's bedroom with his family who refuses to look for housing. Two parents who let their child wander off, nearly drown, and then not take that child to the hospital or therapy afterwards. A family with an unfixed, free-range dog that gets into people's trash, urinates on their property, and impregnates other dogs in the neighborhood. A woman who expects her older daughter to raise the younger one so she can play at work; who spends hours every day complaining that she has no time to herself while her husband is at work and the kids are at school, who penny-pinches on some kids while splurging on others.... these people are a hot mess who in real life would be kind of a sad joke around town.
And when you try explaining that, say, watching two sad-sacks bulldoze other people and trample over them so that she can be proven right to have mauled her first husband the way she did makes people wonder who the bad guy is, you get bleating about being a real person with real feelings.
The only time anyone called Animal Control about Farley was in the January 1985 storyline, reprinted January 2014, when Farley wee-wee-ed on the neighbor's snow sculpture. Animal Control should have been called much more often.
I expect to certain neighbors who were friends with Elizabeth for many years, they may have been insulted that they were not invited. Dawn Enjo got to go, but the other Enjos were nowhere in sight.
Her parents vanished to wherever she banished Molly and Gayle to and Brian married into a foreign culture because of the same thoughtless and condescending racism that makes Lynn parrot the lie Immigration used to tell about how black people will die of hypothermia if the daytime high gets below 10 Celsius. It's pseudoscientific bullshit like that which she uses to keep da Silva out of the picture.
Saying that Lawrence's dad can't survive in our climate says she did. We don't kid by far when we say that Lynn thinks Paul is made of snow and would melt.
In 1995 this was a fairly modern invention. I believe this is its one and only appearance.
As far as the story goes, it is interesting to that Elly is claiming bumper to bumper traffic when she is going to be walking into work with some doughnuts. I would think that would be a giveaway where she really has been. On the other hand, it may be entirely possible that Elly will consume everything she buys on the drive to work.
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An Elly with a car phone can't be caught flatfooted by an empty house.
No wonder it only appears here so she can stick with the classic way of getting her bowels in an uproar because Liz wants the social life she was too gutless to actually have denied by her mother:
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"I told April she could have some friends over because I thought you'd be here to supervise them. I was hoping to have some time to myself this evening."
So sure, April, you can have friends over- it won't conflict with my plans. I'll just have Liz watch all of you while I disappear somewhere.
I just can't with this woman. What. The actual. Hell.
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It's not just incels who dismiss being around children as being unimportant. It all goes back to the cover of that book I linked to. Lynn is using Elly as a mouthpiece for her outrage at the unfairness she experiences when told that giving birth means not being able to live the life she lived before her drunken-stupor induced pregnancies.
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All of the Pattersons view being asked to make a decision, to choose between one option or another, as massively unfair. Michael is told to fire someone; he ducks by firing himself. He has to be dragged to look at a place to house his family and hopes it won't work out. Liz won't sign a contract or a lease. These people are terrified of responsibility and commitment. They worship inertness and think that the universe should bend toward them so they don't have to step up. Pathetic.
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They're terrified of having to own things if things go wrong because they assume that everyone is like them. Mike dreams of being a slumlord because weak people have to be punished. Elly cannot forgive because she has real feelings. These people are not scum. Scum is what they aspire to someday be.
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Lynn seems to have no idea how these people would look to the outside world. A grown woman who abandons her boyfriend to move back in with her mother because she's homesick. A grown man living in his sister's bedroom with his family who refuses to look for housing. Two parents who let their child wander off, nearly drown, and then not take that child to the hospital or therapy afterwards. A family with an unfixed, free-range dog that gets into people's trash, urinates on their property, and impregnates other dogs in the neighborhood. A woman who expects her older daughter to raise the younger one so she can play at work; who spends hours every day complaining that she has no time to herself while her husband is at work and the kids are at school, who penny-pinches on some kids while splurging on others.... these people are a hot mess who in real life would be kind of a sad joke around town.
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And when you try explaining that, say, watching two sad-sacks bulldoze other people and trample over them so that she can be proven right to have mauled her first husband the way she did makes people wonder who the bad guy is, you get bleating about being a real person with real feelings.
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The only time anyone called Animal Control about Farley was in the January 1985 storyline, reprinted January 2014, when Farley wee-wee-ed on the neighbor's snow sculpture. Animal Control should have been called much more often.
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these people are a hot mess who in real life would be kind of a sad joke around town.
In my mind this is how I think the Pattersons are considered by their neighbors.
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The Settlenuptuals must have looked to them the way they did to us: a Low-life Pride Parade.
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I expect to certain neighbors who were friends with Elizabeth for many years, they may have been insulted that they were not invited. Dawn Enjo got to go, but the other Enjos were nowhere in sight.
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Her parents vanished to wherever she banished Molly and Gayle to and Brian married into a foreign culture because of the same thoughtless and condescending racism that makes Lynn parrot the lie Immigration used to tell about how black people will die of hypothermia if the daytime high gets below 10 Celsius. It's pseudoscientific bullshit like that which she uses to keep da Silva out of the picture.
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she actually said that!?
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Saying that Lawrence's dad can't survive in our climate says she did. We don't kid by far when we say that Lynn thinks Paul is made of snow and would melt.
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