and the conclusion of "Mary Anne Saves the Day"
One through Two
Three through Five
Six through Eight
Nine through Twelve
Chapter 13
So MA had to run Jenny Prezzioso to the hospital. BAD.
Mr. Prezzioso paid her and Dawn generously for taking good care of Jenny. GOOD.
Dawn found out that MA had essentially been using her to get one over on Kristy. MA lost the only friend she had left. BAD.
Two for one. Could today get any better for Mary Anne? Well, during dinner, Mrs. Prezzioso calls for Mary Anne, but speaks to Richard instead. After he gets the rundown of what happened, Richard asks MA how her day went and what happened with Jenny. So she gives him the details.
And then....well, in Stoneybrook they say
Richard Spier's heart grew three sizes that day.
He comes to the realization that Mary Anne is indeed growing up. She's mature and responsible. And he FINALLY extends her curfew. (9:30 on weeknights, 10 PM on Fridays and Saturdays.)
"Oh Dad, that's perfect! Thank you!" I started to get up, wanting to hug him, but we're not huggers. WTF?! WHY NOT?!!
Then MA gets an idea. She runs up to her room and rips her rubberbands out of her braids so it falls over her shoulders all wavy. Then she runs back and shows her dad and is all, "How do I look?" And Richard's face goes from serious to soft and he tells her she looks lovely. (Aww.) And then she asks him if she could possibly take down her picture of Humpty Dumpty and put up something else, like a nice picture of New York or Paris. (She figures she can ask him about Alice some other time.) He agrees. THEN they hug and she thanks him. (NOW they're huggers.)
Well! Mary Anne's had quite a day! Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, they took a major change for the better. So now that she's cleared that big hurdle with her dad, she decides to write both Kristy and Dawn apology letters.
Chapter 14
Stacey's handwriting, which indicates another baby-sitting chapter. Well, it's not any ordinary baby-sitting job. It's Jamie Newton's birthday party that they're all helping out with. And according to Stacey's entry, the BSC has been feuding about a month. She thinks their fight is dumb, and how she thought they were her friends "but I guess not." Well, Stace, it's hard to keep friends when you tell them they're stuck-up job hogs, bossy know-it-alls, and shy little babies. I'm just sayin'. (BTW, she makes this notebook entry prior to the party because she thinks they should be prepared for the worst.
MA backtracks to that Monday morning when she gives Dawn her letter. Dawn reads it, and all is well between the two of them. And Dawn notices MA's not wearing her hair in braids. (Yes!) Now MA has to give Kristy her note, but she can't find her, and Kristy's still acting like an immature brat and not speaking to her. So she just slips it in her locker.
Later on that day is Jamie's party. And who the hell has their little kid's birthday party on a weekday? Why not just wait for the weekend when it's more convenient for the parents of the other kids?
OH MY GOD. Because they're all fighting, poor Jamie's party is a near disaster! Trying to get all the kids in one spot doesn't work because they each have their own little group of kids. They shove each other around in an attempt to go check on Lucy before finally Mrs. Newton just sends Stacey up. Kristy purposely stomps on MA's foot while they're blindfolding kids to hit the pinata. And FINALLY Kristy speaks to Mary Anne, but only to say, "Oh, I'm sorry, was that your foot I stepped on?" They get snippy with each other and MA sticks her tounge out at Kristy. So I think Stacey has been the only one out of the four who hasn't stuck her tounge out at someone in this book. Why? Because she's from New York City and are above that sort of shit. But New Yawkers have their own version of sticking out their tounge:
Then it's time for ice cream and cake. Mrs. Newton has the "tablescape" (if I may borrow a term from Sandra Lee) themed with teddy bears, and she wants the girls to sit down at the table, but scatter themselves around so they can give the little kids a help with getting food and passing things around.
Mrs. Newton asks MA to pour some punch for everyone. She fills everyone's punch halfway, except for Kristy's. She just lets it go to the top and spill over into Kristy's lap. MA's all, "Oh, so sorry. My mistake." Kristy's all, "What's the big idea?!" Oh, bitch PLEASE, like you don't know. Then Claudia shows up with some napkins to help clean up the mess. And she then takes the bunch of wet napkins, marches across the table, and FLINGS it into Stacey's face! I'm LOLing that Claudia had the audacity to blatantly do this in front of all these kids. So what does cool, so-fist-uh-muh-kate-id Stacey do? She gets up and smushes the napkins back into Claudia's face. And then all hell just about breaks loose.
Mrs. Newton comes out with the birthday cake. She sees Claudia, MA and Stacey hovering around Kristy having their catfight. A lone tear ran down Jamie's cheek. WAY TO YOU, YOU STUPID BITCHES, YOU MADE JAMIE NEWTON CRY! So MA takes the napkins away from Stacey and puts some dry ones over the punch spill, and is all, "Just a little accident, we're all sorry. Let's go get Kristy cleaned up," and leads them to the kitchen. And in the kitchen, MA's all, "That's it, I don't care, there's going to be an emergency club meeting after the party. Be there."
Chapter 15
So the rest of Jamie's party went okay, and the BSC bent over backwards to be nice to Jamie and to help Mrs. Newton. And frankly, you'd think Mrs. Newton would think twice before she hires these immature tweens over to babysit her kids again. After the party, they agree to go to Claudia's to have the meeting. Mimi greets the girls and is happy to see them together again. (Yeah, we'll see.)
MA decides to be brave and tell the girls, "Okay, today was embarrassing. Either we make up, or we're done with this club, and I don't want to have to quit this club because I had to work pretty hard to be in it in the first place." Stacey doesn't want the club to break up either, because these girls are her only friends she has here in the 'Brook. They all look at Kristy, and she supposes she wants to make up, but she says, "Someone owes me an apology." WHY!? Kristy was the one who took the job that started the fight in the first place! She was the biggest brat of them all! Claudia's all, "Who owes you an apology?" Kristy can't remember who owes her one. (SHE DOESN'T DESERVE ONE!!!) So they all decide to go "I'M SORRY!" at the count of three. Stupid.
MA apologizes for being such a coward and not wanting to make decisions or take charge. (WHY, Mary Anne?! Why are you apologizing for this?! This is nothing to be sorry for! Stacey's the one who called you a crybaby! Why doesn't she apologize for hurting your feelings in the first place?) MA also apologizes to Claudia for what happened with Mimi. (Once again, WHY?!!! That wasn't your damn fault, Mary Anne!) But it's okay because Claudia apologizes to MA for being a brat about that in the first place. Stacey apologizes for being so conceited about having lived in New York; besides, she likes Stoneybrook much better, and her new friends here are much nicer than Laine Cummings and the rest of those city-slickers. Then Kristy apologizes for being so bossy. (I think she has a lot more to be sorry for, if you ask me.) But she gives her excuse as being club president. And now everyone notices that MA's not wearing her hair in braids. And MA finally drops the news that her dad extended her curfew, too. WHOOPTIE DAMN DOO!
Oh, and after finding out that Kristy never got that letter she wrote (Kristy switched lockers because hers was jammed), MA apologizes for pouring punch in her lap. And all is well in the BSC-verse.
Back at home, the phone's ringing and MA answers. It's Dawn. OHMIGOD, guess what Dawn found?! A prom photo of their parents!!! *EEEEEEEEEEE!!!* (And it was a "sports equipment" box, too. Thanks, Sharon.) According to Dawn, upon finding it, Sharon was all, "Oh, that was Richie Spier, I wonder what happened to him..." And Dawn's all, "Nothing." Sharon's all, "What do you mean, 'nothing'?" Dawn's all, "He's Mary Anne's dad." And Sharon about fainted.
During dinner, MA asks her dad, "Did you ever know a woman named Sharon Porter?" Richard nearly chokes on his carrots. (Oh, did he EVER!) MA explains that she found out that was Dawn's mom's maiden name and wanted to know if they went to high school together. Richard tells her they did go to school together and were "very good friends." But her parents didn't care for him much, and after high school they drifted apart. Turns out Dawn's parents were rich, Richard's parents weren't, and the Porters didn't think Richard would amount to much in life.
After dinner, MA calls Dawn and gives her the deets. So they start hatching a plan. And then MA tries hatching a plan of her own to get Dawn into the Baby-Sitters Club.
Chapter 16
Wow. Richard relented and let MA have a pizza party for the other BSC members and Dawn at their house. Really, this chapter's kind of dumb because all it is is Dawn meeting the rest of the BSC. Oh, and Richard and Sharon seeing each other for the first time in twenty-something years. And I can imagine lovely love music playing in the background:
Richard asks Sharon out on a date. And this means Richard will score for the first time in 13 years.
Meanwhile, Dawn's getting grilled by Kristy about what baby-sitting experience she has. Dawn baby-sat a lot back in California. So I guess it's time for Dawn to start sippin' the Kool-Aid: she's a part of the cult now!
Thanks for reading!
Three through Five
Six through Eight
Nine through Twelve
Chapter 13
So MA had to run Jenny Prezzioso to the hospital. BAD.
Mr. Prezzioso paid her and Dawn generously for taking good care of Jenny. GOOD.
Dawn found out that MA had essentially been using her to get one over on Kristy. MA lost the only friend she had left. BAD.
Two for one. Could today get any better for Mary Anne? Well, during dinner, Mrs. Prezzioso calls for Mary Anne, but speaks to Richard instead. After he gets the rundown of what happened, Richard asks MA how her day went and what happened with Jenny. So she gives him the details.
And then....well, in Stoneybrook they say
Richard Spier's heart grew three sizes that day.
He comes to the realization that Mary Anne is indeed growing up. She's mature and responsible. And he FINALLY extends her curfew. (9:30 on weeknights, 10 PM on Fridays and Saturdays.)
"Oh Dad, that's perfect! Thank you!" I started to get up, wanting to hug him, but we're not huggers. WTF?! WHY NOT?!!
Then MA gets an idea. She runs up to her room and rips her rubberbands out of her braids so it falls over her shoulders all wavy. Then she runs back and shows her dad and is all, "How do I look?" And Richard's face goes from serious to soft and he tells her she looks lovely. (Aww.) And then she asks him if she could possibly take down her picture of Humpty Dumpty and put up something else, like a nice picture of New York or Paris. (She figures she can ask him about Alice some other time.) He agrees. THEN they hug and she thanks him. (NOW they're huggers.)
Well! Mary Anne's had quite a day! Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, they took a major change for the better. So now that she's cleared that big hurdle with her dad, she decides to write both Kristy and Dawn apology letters.
Chapter 14
Stacey's handwriting, which indicates another baby-sitting chapter. Well, it's not any ordinary baby-sitting job. It's Jamie Newton's birthday party that they're all helping out with. And according to Stacey's entry, the BSC has been feuding about a month. She thinks their fight is dumb, and how she thought they were her friends "but I guess not." Well, Stace, it's hard to keep friends when you tell them they're stuck-up job hogs, bossy know-it-alls, and shy little babies. I'm just sayin'. (BTW, she makes this notebook entry prior to the party because she thinks they should be prepared for the worst.
MA backtracks to that Monday morning when she gives Dawn her letter. Dawn reads it, and all is well between the two of them. And Dawn notices MA's not wearing her hair in braids. (Yes!) Now MA has to give Kristy her note, but she can't find her, and Kristy's still acting like an immature brat and not speaking to her. So she just slips it in her locker.
Later on that day is Jamie's party. And who the hell has their little kid's birthday party on a weekday? Why not just wait for the weekend when it's more convenient for the parents of the other kids?
OH MY GOD. Because they're all fighting, poor Jamie's party is a near disaster! Trying to get all the kids in one spot doesn't work because they each have their own little group of kids. They shove each other around in an attempt to go check on Lucy before finally Mrs. Newton just sends Stacey up. Kristy purposely stomps on MA's foot while they're blindfolding kids to hit the pinata. And FINALLY Kristy speaks to Mary Anne, but only to say, "Oh, I'm sorry, was that your foot I stepped on?" They get snippy with each other and MA sticks her tounge out at Kristy. So I think Stacey has been the only one out of the four who hasn't stuck her tounge out at someone in this book. Why? Because she's from New York City and are above that sort of shit. But New Yawkers have their own version of sticking out their tounge:
Then it's time for ice cream and cake. Mrs. Newton has the "tablescape" (if I may borrow a term from Sandra Lee) themed with teddy bears, and she wants the girls to sit down at the table, but scatter themselves around so they can give the little kids a help with getting food and passing things around.
Mrs. Newton asks MA to pour some punch for everyone. She fills everyone's punch halfway, except for Kristy's. She just lets it go to the top and spill over into Kristy's lap. MA's all, "Oh, so sorry. My mistake." Kristy's all, "What's the big idea?!" Oh, bitch PLEASE, like you don't know. Then Claudia shows up with some napkins to help clean up the mess. And she then takes the bunch of wet napkins, marches across the table, and FLINGS it into Stacey's face! I'm LOLing that Claudia had the audacity to blatantly do this in front of all these kids. So what does cool, so-fist-uh-muh-kate-id Stacey do? She gets up and smushes the napkins back into Claudia's face. And then all hell just about breaks loose.
Mrs. Newton comes out with the birthday cake. She sees Claudia, MA and Stacey hovering around Kristy having their catfight. A lone tear ran down Jamie's cheek. WAY TO YOU, YOU STUPID BITCHES, YOU MADE JAMIE NEWTON CRY! So MA takes the napkins away from Stacey and puts some dry ones over the punch spill, and is all, "Just a little accident, we're all sorry. Let's go get Kristy cleaned up," and leads them to the kitchen. And in the kitchen, MA's all, "That's it, I don't care, there's going to be an emergency club meeting after the party. Be there."
Chapter 15
So the rest of Jamie's party went okay, and the BSC bent over backwards to be nice to Jamie and to help Mrs. Newton. And frankly, you'd think Mrs. Newton would think twice before she hires these immature tweens over to babysit her kids again. After the party, they agree to go to Claudia's to have the meeting. Mimi greets the girls and is happy to see them together again. (Yeah, we'll see.)
MA decides to be brave and tell the girls, "Okay, today was embarrassing. Either we make up, or we're done with this club, and I don't want to have to quit this club because I had to work pretty hard to be in it in the first place." Stacey doesn't want the club to break up either, because these girls are her only friends she has here in the 'Brook. They all look at Kristy, and she supposes she wants to make up, but she says, "Someone owes me an apology." WHY!? Kristy was the one who took the job that started the fight in the first place! She was the biggest brat of them all! Claudia's all, "Who owes you an apology?" Kristy can't remember who owes her one. (SHE DOESN'T DESERVE ONE!!!) So they all decide to go "I'M SORRY!" at the count of three. Stupid.
MA apologizes for being such a coward and not wanting to make decisions or take charge. (WHY, Mary Anne?! Why are you apologizing for this?! This is nothing to be sorry for! Stacey's the one who called you a crybaby! Why doesn't she apologize for hurting your feelings in the first place?) MA also apologizes to Claudia for what happened with Mimi. (Once again, WHY?!!! That wasn't your damn fault, Mary Anne!) But it's okay because Claudia apologizes to MA for being a brat about that in the first place. Stacey apologizes for being so conceited about having lived in New York; besides, she likes Stoneybrook much better, and her new friends here are much nicer than Laine Cummings and the rest of those city-slickers. Then Kristy apologizes for being so bossy. (I think she has a lot more to be sorry for, if you ask me.) But she gives her excuse as being club president. And now everyone notices that MA's not wearing her hair in braids. And MA finally drops the news that her dad extended her curfew, too. WHOOPTIE DAMN DOO!
Oh, and after finding out that Kristy never got that letter she wrote (Kristy switched lockers because hers was jammed), MA apologizes for pouring punch in her lap. And all is well in the BSC-verse.
Back at home, the phone's ringing and MA answers. It's Dawn. OHMIGOD, guess what Dawn found?! A prom photo of their parents!!! *EEEEEEEEEEE!!!* (And it was a "sports equipment" box, too. Thanks, Sharon.) According to Dawn, upon finding it, Sharon was all, "Oh, that was Richie Spier, I wonder what happened to him..." And Dawn's all, "Nothing." Sharon's all, "What do you mean, 'nothing'?" Dawn's all, "He's Mary Anne's dad." And Sharon about fainted.
During dinner, MA asks her dad, "Did you ever know a woman named Sharon Porter?" Richard nearly chokes on his carrots. (Oh, did he EVER!) MA explains that she found out that was Dawn's mom's maiden name and wanted to know if they went to high school together. Richard tells her they did go to school together and were "very good friends." But her parents didn't care for him much, and after high school they drifted apart. Turns out Dawn's parents were rich, Richard's parents weren't, and the Porters didn't think Richard would amount to much in life.
After dinner, MA calls Dawn and gives her the deets. So they start hatching a plan. And then MA tries hatching a plan of her own to get Dawn into the Baby-Sitters Club.
Chapter 16
Wow. Richard relented and let MA have a pizza party for the other BSC members and Dawn at their house. Really, this chapter's kind of dumb because all it is is Dawn meeting the rest of the BSC. Oh, and Richard and Sharon seeing each other for the first time in twenty-something years. And I can imagine lovely love music playing in the background:
Click to viewRichard asks Sharon out on a date. And this means Richard will score for the first time in 13 years.
Meanwhile, Dawn's getting grilled by Kristy about what baby-sitting experience she has. Dawn baby-sat a lot back in California. So I guess it's time for Dawn to start sippin' the Kool-Aid: she's a part of the cult now!
Thanks for reading!