We'll Always Have NYC or #51, Stacey's Ex-Best Friend

[iamtheliquorr]

Longtime lurker, first-time poster here.  I've been wanting to recap a BSC for a while, and I hit the motherload at a recent used book sale.  Stacey as always my fave, so I just had to pop my recap cherry on a Stacey book!  I chose #51, "Stacey's Ex-Best Friend."  I know it's been recapped here before (and 'twas an excellent recap, too), but it's

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[author_by_night]

I don't really have anything to snark here because this kind of tomfoolery actually sounds pretty authentic--I can totally see some "I'm so grown-up now" tween doing that, although they'd probably abandon it after realizing the three extra syllables are not worth the effort.

Oh, definitely. Like when I tried to have people call me by my middle name, but gave up because nobody went for it.

When I was eleven, nobody had boyfriends but the popular girls and all it meant was that you held hands at recess and slow-danced surfer-style to Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush" which they played at every damn dance multiple times.

Going to the roller rink or the movies together was the height of true love when I was in middle school.

In reference to the twins picture - what movie/show is that from? Just curious. :)

Stacey hears Laine say the word "childish" and assumes she's referring to their babysitting clients.

I want to bash Stacey for being naive, but in fairness, kids that age ARE pretty naive when it comes to their friends. So reality points there. It makes me feel a little sorry for Stacey, actually.

So Ma McGill calls Laine's Mom and even they get into an argument.

Arguing with your friend over a typical teenage snit, as I think it's later implied that McGill and Laine's Mom don't speak either? Geez. I know quite a few people who became best friends with the kids of couples their parents were friends with, and yet when they had falling outs the couples remained perfectly close.

I can't help but think about how much the world has changed since this was written. No way would I trust my daughter riding a train alone at 10pm to NYC, but maybe I'm just paranoid. I just feel that's straight-up Natalee Holloway shit just waiting to happen.

I think it's a combination of thirteen being more like sixteen in the BSC books and, indeed, things changing. (Or rather, us being more aware of those things. People have been sickos since the beginning of time, but Amber Alert hasn't been around since the beginning of time.)

[iamtheliquorr]

Re: Stacey listening in on Laine: I guess I just found it a bit strange to equate "childish" (when used in the context of Stacey's friends) with baby-sitting clients, but ehhhhh maybe it's just me. For the most part Stacey's reactions were believable.

And the twins picture is from Skins, which I'm currently slightly obsesso over. It's such the anti-BSC/SVH lol.

[lozbabie]

I've seen it happen, parents falling out when their kids have an arguement. Best memory from Year 10 is two mothers screaming at each other in the carpark after their kids broke up about what a slut the daughter was and how she was going to get the son charged with statutory rape. The rest of the year thought it was hysterical, while the two kids in question were DYING of embarrassment. (because who doesn't want their mother shouting out their sex life across the school?)

Ultimate irony? It was just a blip in their relationship, they're now married with three kids and the mothers STILL hate each other with a holy passion. The wedding was hysterical to watch. (thankfully the couple by that point had got past embarrassment and now find it just as funny as their friends do)

[toesock29]

lol that's hysterical!

[design_star_21]

Is it bad I find that kinda awesomely funny?

[lozbabie]

Well if its bad, then the couple in question are bad because THEY find it awesomely funny. (well the only time she didn't find it funny was when they were arguing over her in the labor room. She kicked them both out then) Its gone beyond depressing to funny for them now, its the only option.