Karen's Kite, BSC Little Sister #47

[luckythegiraffe]

I've been reading this comm for a long time, but this is my first snark.  I couldn't find a decently sized cover picture, which is too bad, because Karen's outfit is rather interesting.

Comments

[lionessvalenti]

This book might as well be titled Everybody Sucks. Karen's horrible, though it's at least mostly in her head and not loud. Natalie is awful for letting Karen take the blame for everything without even speaking up. Natalie's parents are TERRIBLE. I could not imagine my parents not taking me my grandfather's funeral, even if I was only seven, even during the school year. Let alone, dumping me off at someone's house, who I wasn't even really friends with.

Holy crap, someone buy the Springers some new fucking socks. Or if they're too cheap for new socks, maybe they should invest in those sock suspenders? Do they even still make those?

Funnily enough, though, when I was in second grade, our field trip was to the airport. I don't really remember anything about it, though, except for the bus ride there when we counted down the miles til we crossed the bridge to go into Kentucky from Ohio.

[ciaraxyerra]

they do still make sock suspenders! my boyfriend has a pair in black patent leather. he got them when he was a bike messenger, because his socks would slide down inside his shoe & make pedaling uncomfortable. he got them at brooks brothers. they are hilarious.

[luckythegiraffe]

Natalie's parents are clueless and weird. I have no idea why Natalie couldn't just go to the funeral. She's never described as a loud or particularly active kid, you'd think she could sit quietly through a service. At my grandfather's funeral, some old ladies from his church volunteered to babysit any kids too small to attend the service, so if they didn't want to take her to the service itself, they still could have had options.

[rainbowserenity]

I guess just taking Natalie with them was never really an option. It makes shit take so much longer at the airport when you have to stop every fifteen feet for your kid to pull up her socks. Plus she'd totally disrupt Grandpa's funeral by snorting while she cried. And really, isn't staying with Karen Brewer the best way to learn about death? Oh, wait, no, that's actually the best way to learn about wishing you were dead, my mistake.

That part cracked me up so hard I woke my sister up. Oops. :D

[guitar_hwy_rose]

This is a damn good first snark. I love your brother for sending you those texts because it sounds exactly like something my brother would do to me just to crack me the hell up :D

[flipflopgoddess]

Why the hell does Natalie need to pull up her socks all the time? Some socks are meant to be pushed down or folded down or whatever. Just ask Mal, who thinks pushdown socks are the height of chilly dibbleness.

[luckythegiraffe]

I saw a theory put forth once that Natalie's feet are large but she has thin bony ankles and the socks that fit her feet are too loose to grip her legs. This still doesn't explain how her parents can find socks that don't fit. There has to be a style that would not make them look like idiots.

[wanderingfrog]

I love how we are discussing the possible foot and ankle structure of a fictional seven-year-old who is not even a main character (well, except in Second Grade Baby). The Internet is the best thing in the world.

[buggrit_1979]

She's stuck teaching second grade for eternity, and she's always wondered how exactly kites work.