I totally love how the BSC in Stoneybrook starts to fall apart. It's like a realistic moment of consequences. You start the book with everyone bitching about how OMG BUSY they are! But then FOUR of the babysitters, the most experienced and oldest ones, are like OMG VACATION TIME YAY! And really considering the restrictions on the 11 year olds and Logan being some kind of half-member, that's over half of the staff of the business. Then Shannon is like, "IDRC about this idiocy, I only use this club to get jobs. I only put up with the meetings out of necessity. I don't like to hang out w/11 year olds, and since Kristy isn't here to glare me to death, I'mma bounce." And, even though this is a business, the four sitters who are gone and causing all of this overbooking and lost business at home AREN'T GETTING PAID for babysitting/assimilating the children in Maine.
It's just perfectly realistic and crappy, and like something 13 year olds running a business would do. Screw themselves, basically. xD I do feel bad for Mal and Jessi though. They are trying really hard, but they're just in a lose-lose-lose situation, which is really unfair for them, being 11 and all.
I totally love how the BSC in Stoneybrook starts to fall apart. It's like a realistic moment of consequences. You start the book with everyone bitching about how OMG BUSY they are! But then FOUR of the babysitters, the most experienced and oldest ones, are like OMG VACATION TIME YAY! And really considering the restrictions on the 11 year olds and Logan being some kind of half-member, that's over half of the staff of the business. Then Shannon is like, "IDRC about this idiocy, I only use this club to get jobs. I only put up with the meetings out of necessity. I don't like to hang out w/11 year olds, and since Kristy isn't here to glare me to death, I'mma bounce." And, even though this is a business, the four sitters who are gone and causing all of this overbooking and lost business at home AREN'T GETTING PAID for babysitting/assimilating the children in Maine.
It's just perfectly realistic and crappy, and like something 13 year olds running a business would do. Screw themselves, basically. xD I do feel bad for Mal and Jessi though. They are trying really hard, but they're just in a lose-lose-lose situation, which is really unfair for them, being 11 and all.
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