Karen's Bully, chs. 16-20
Hello, hello! I am procrastinating writing a paper right now, so I decided to finish off this snark. This one has my favorite part: the Brewer v. Gianelli Underwear War! (I purposefully stopped before this part in my last snark because I wanted to start this snark with that part.)
Chapter 16
This chapter starts with the end of Karen’s slumber party. All of her friends go home, and Amanda’s mother picks Amanda up from the big house. As they drive away, Amanda says goodbye to Karen and asks her to tell her all about “you know what.” Hmmm. Curiouser and curiouser.
Andrew apparently isn’t in on the “you know what,” because he asks Karen about it after Amanda is gone. Karen tells him that it is a secret and she will tell him later. Andrew seems pacified, so they go back to doing whatever the big house children do on Sunday afternoons. Which I’m guessing is probably whatever Princess Karen wants everyone to do, since she seems to control everyone in this book (except for Bobby, of course, which is why he is supposedly such a “bully”). Eventually, Karen and Andrew leave to go back to the little house. Karen is preoccupied throughout the rest of the day about what she’s going to do to Bobby for the prank calls. She assures us that “it was not going to be a war with guns or bombs, of course.” No kidding, Karen.
Before Karen falls asleep, she has a “great idea.” (Yikes. We all know what “great ideas” from Karen and Kristy means.)
Karen waited patiently a few days to put her plan into action. One day, when she was in the car with the Daweses, she finally sees what she was looking for: Mrs. Gianelli had hung their laundry on the clothesline outside their house. She asked Nancy if she had heard what Bobby was doing after school, and Nancy confirms that he is at his bromance partner Ricky’s house. Karen is elated. She then ditched Nancy and sneaked over to the Gianellis’ house-she cut across other peoples’ backyards, hid behind trees, and ducked behind bushes. Because you know, that doesn’t seem suspicious at all.
She got to Bobby’s yard, hid behind a pile of wood, and looked at the laundry. She surveyed the different underwear, deducing what belonged to the parents and what belonged to his sister. (For some reason, I giggled when she said, “It was not the little frilly panties. Those belonged to his sister.”) She located Bobby’s underwear, snatched them off the clothesline, and ran back to her house.
So, let us recap the crimes Karen just committed:
1. Several counts of trespassing, as she walked through different peoples’ backyards to get to the Gianellis’, and then intruded on the Gianellis’ property. Back in chapter 3, she threw a hissy fit that Bobby couldn’t be near her yard because it was “private property.” Yet another hypocritical Karen Brewer moment.
2. One count of theft, as she pilfered Bobby’s underwear from the Gianellis’ clothesline. This one seems pretty obvious.
Also interesting: Karen made a comment that she “did not think [she] was stealing” because she “planned to return the underwear to Bobby the next day.” So she’s using the “I did not steal it, I just borrowed it for a little while” logic to justify her stealing. Honey, that excuse is older than you are.
3. One count of conspiring against another person. She planned this out in advance, as the book says she was thinking about what to do to Bobby all evening, and once she got the plan, she patiently sat back and waiting for the right moment to act. Thus, the action was clearly premeditated.
4. Arguably, she has also one count of stalking here. I don’t know if this would technically be considered stalking if it was to go to court, but I think it should. She’s practically stalked Bobby’s house all through the book.
Conclusion: If this were anyone but Karen Brewer, they would probably be thrown in jail for this. But oh no, not Karen.
The next day, she took the underwear to school and displayed them for the class. Everyone laughed, of course, and she announced that it was Bobby’s underwear. Bobby flipped his crap, at first trying to insult her by calling her “Karen Tutu” again. But Karen continued to display them, making the girls giggle and the boys rip on him for his chosen style (Hank Reubens: “Nice shorts, Bobby!”) Bobby whines like a little bitch, defensively telling everyone to shut up and still trying to get Karen to give him his undies back. Just then, Ms. Coleman cleared her throat and all of the students raced for their seats. Bobby quickly took his underwear from Karen and hid them, threatening to get Karen back for this.
Of course, Ms. Coleman said nothing about this whole incident.
Moral of the story: commit several crimes and as long as everyone laughs, you won’t get in trouble. Lovely lesson to be teaching young children, AMM.
Chapter 17
The chapter is called “Minnie Mouse,” but I want to rename it “Karma’s a Bitch.”
The next day, Seth is driving Nancy and Karen to school, and they are still giggling about the underwear incident and talking shit about Bobby. They are talking in low voices so Seth won’t hear them. Seth, of course, doesn’t notice that something is up. Which is funny, because if my father had heard my friends and I whispering in the backseat, he would have immediately been all, “Okay, little ladies, one of you had better tell me what is going on. Now.”
Karen and Nancy get to school and see Bobby standing by the front door of the school with a shit-eating grin on his face. Karen is a little nervous about that grin, but keeps walking. Bobby follows them. When they all enter Ms. Coleman’s classroom, the entire class bursts out laughing. Karen asks Nancy why they are laughing, but before Nancy can say anything, Hannie suddenly shouts from the back of the room, “Karen! Look!”
Bobby is “parading” (exact wording) around the room holding up a pair of Karen’s underwear, which he has attached to a stick like a flag. And not just any underwear: Karen’s pink, ruffly, baby Minnie Mouse panties that Nannie had bought for her. Karen is outraged, demanding to know where Bobby got her undies. To which he replies, “Same place you got my underwear.” Apparently, Bobby had sneaked into Karen’s backyard and stolen her undies off the Engle-Brewer clothesline.
So Bobby has committed a copy-cat crime by sneaking into Karen’s yard and stealing her underwear. I see Karen’s influence over others has lead more young people to a life of crime.
Karen is all freaked out and embarrassed because the boys are seeing her underwear. Gee, Karen, weren’t you all haughty and proud of yourself yesterday because the girls were seeing Bobby’s underwear? This proves that Karen clearly cannot handle what she dishes out.
Hannie, who is not laughing, gets everyone to stop laughing by announcing that Ms. Coleman is coming. The kids all run to their desks. Bobby removes Karen’s panties from the stick and hands them back to Karen. Hannie then reveals that she had lied, Ms. Coleman isn’t actually coming. Bobby doesn’t care. He is still smiling his shit-eating grin and basking in his victory over Karen.
Ms. Coleman really does arrive a few minutes later, and Karen sulks in her seat. She looks at Ricky, who is sitting in his desk refusing to look at her. Once again, he refuses to choose between his pretend wife and his bromance partner, which pisses Karen off. (I’m beginning to think Ricky is the only sane person in this entire story.) Karen contemplates telling on Bobby, but then she remembers that she did the same thing to him yesterday, so she’d get in trouble, too. So she says nothing.
Well, Karen, like I said. Karma’s a bitch.
For the rest of the day, everyone keeps calling Karen “Minnie,” except for Hannie, Nancy, and Ricky. The two other Musketeers are defending their friend (not that she deserves it, after that crap with the slumber party), and Ricky probably just doesn’t want to acknowledge the drama. But even though her friends are being so cool, Karen decides that she is going to hole up in her room after school and never come out.
Okay, now I’m really mad.
One time in grade school, I got made fun of so badly in my class that even my friends turned against me. I holed up in my room and faked sick for two days because I had virtually no one in my corner. In Karen’s case, she has three loyal friends who aren’t making fun of her, yet she thinks that her life is so horrible that she must stay home and sulk in her room for the rest of her life? Fuck you, Karen! You have NO idea how lucky you are to even have those three good friends. I would have been happy with just ONE, and considering some of the horror stories I’ve heard about people who were picked on in school, I don’t think I’m alone here.
Chapter 18
This next chapter opens with Karen sulking in her room for over an hour until Andrew knocked on her door. He sat down in her armchair and asked why Karen was upset with him. Karen is confused, so he explains that she was a bitch to him in the car on the way home for school, and even called him a “twerp,” and then she wouldn’t eat her afternoon snack with him, and then she went to her room and slammed the door. So he was upset because he thought that she was mad at him.
Awww. I suddenly want to give Andrew a hug.
Karen, apparently having somewhat of a conscience here, explains that she isn’t mad at Andrew, she’s mad because of what had happened with Bobby at school. She explained about the prank phone calls, and how that made Karen start a war with Bobby, but then her plan backfired and instead of rolling over and taking it like a little bitch, Bobby retaliated against her.
Andrew, suddenly having a moment of clarity, asked Karen if she was having the Underwear War because Bobby had been picking on him. Karen says yes, in some ways, because she was responsible for standing up for him.
Ohhhhh Karen. WAY wrong thing to ever say to a younger sibling. WAY wrong thing.
Andrew is offended. He tells Karen that he can stand up for himself. He walked out of her room, saying that he needed to go to his own room “to think.” Karen abandons her plan to stay holed up in her room forever and follows her brother to his room. She sits with him while he thinks, saying the following:
Andrew was going to do something and I had to know what it was. He could not go around doing things without me. He needed me to protect him. After all, I am his big sister.
Okay. Listen. I am the youngest sibling in my family. I’ve heard this kind of stuff from older siblings all my life, about needing to “protect” them and such. But the little sister in me is screaming at Karen right now: “NO! Let him do it himself! He’s not a baby, Karen! Andrew has to learn to do this without you holding his hand!” The last-born child always gets treated like the baby who can’t do anything for themselves, no matter how old they are. Hell, I’m 26 years old and my family STILL refuses to believe that I am a grown woman who is perfectly capable of taking care of conflicts without their help. So I’m a little annoyed with Karen here. I understand she wants to stick up for her brother but… I think you have to be the youngest to understand my annoyance.
Chapter 19
Andrew is quiet for the next few days, making Lisa think that he might be ill. But he’s not sick, he’s still “thinking.” This continues until the following Saturday, when the Brewer kids are outside. Karen and Nancy are discussing baby names on Karen’s front steps, and Andrew is playing ball with some other neighborhood kids.
And who comes walking up but Bobby. He walks up the sidewalk of Karen’s house, and the little kids stop playing. He says hello to Andrew, and starts teasing him about the “killer bees.” This time, though, Andrew is not afraid. He says, “Well, I guess you have seen the snake by now.”
Bobby is confused, so Andrew continues to tell him about a giant python on the loose with huge, sharp teeth that will bite and squeeze you to death. While he was talking, Andrew pulled a rubber snake out of his pocket and threw it in front of Bobby, who started freaking out. Then he turned to Karen and started yelling at her (?? What does she have to do with any of this ??) about how he never wanted to move to their neighborhood, about how he never had to worry about snakes at his old house, about how he wants to live in his old house in his old neighborhood, and how he’s jealous that Karen and Andrew get to go back and forth between their “old house” (I guess he means the big house?) and their “new house” (I guess he means the little house?). Apparently, Bobby is close to tears while he yells at her.
Karen, who has apparently now gained psychological expertise after the incident with Amanda and Melody at her party, suddenly realizes that maybe Bobby is such an asshole to her because he misses his old house and wishes he could still go to it, like Karen can. Karen starts to say something to Bobby, but Andrew stops her. He admits to Bobby that there was no snake, he made it up to get him back at him. Just then, all of the other little kids corner Bobby and demand to know about the killer bees.
Andrew, you freaking rock. You totally just proved that you don’t need Karen’s help to own the neighborhood jerk. Go Andrew!
Chapter 20
The girls join everyone as Bobby explains that he made up the story about the bees and the story about Karen’s glasses and the Martian spies. Andrew starts to walk away, but Karen stops him and forces him to apologize. Andrew pouts, but begrudgingly apologizes to Bobby, who begrudgingly does the same. Karen joins in and apologizes to Bobby, and he returns the apology.
I’m waiting for Nancy to say in a motherly voice, “Now give him a hug!” But she did not.
Later that afternoon, Bobby returns to their house with his little sister. He introduces her as Alicia, and she is the same age as Andrew. He tells Andrew that she does not know any other kids, so he wants him to introduce her to some of the others so she can make some new friends. Karen joins and tells Andrew to “show her around.” Andrew “inspected” Alicia (direct quote), all flabbergasted because he’s at that age where girls are icky. He asks Alicia how old she really is, and she says that she just turned four. Andrew then gets all smiley, saying that he is “almost five,” so he is older than her, so yeah, sure, he’ll show her around!
I literally just smiled at that part. I think Andrew may have just gotten his first crush.
Andrew leads Alicia away for their first date her tour of the neighborhood. Karen and Bobby awkwardly stare at each other, and then Karen invites him inside. She calls Ricky and invites him to come over so they can all three play together. Ricky agrees, and his father drives him over to Karen’s house. When he gets out of the car, he is all smiles, happy that his pretend wife and his bromance partner have signed a peace treaty and now they can ALL be friends.
The story ends with the three of them playing marbles together, with all tied up in a neat little BSCLS package. The “Bricky Bromance” is now the “Bricky Bromance + Karen.”
This sounds very “After School Special.”
That concludes Karen's Bully. I hope that you all enjoyed it! I will try to come back with another snark again sometime. Bye, everyone!
Chapter 16
This chapter starts with the end of Karen’s slumber party. All of her friends go home, and Amanda’s mother picks Amanda up from the big house. As they drive away, Amanda says goodbye to Karen and asks her to tell her all about “you know what.” Hmmm. Curiouser and curiouser.
Andrew apparently isn’t in on the “you know what,” because he asks Karen about it after Amanda is gone. Karen tells him that it is a secret and she will tell him later. Andrew seems pacified, so they go back to doing whatever the big house children do on Sunday afternoons. Which I’m guessing is probably whatever Princess Karen wants everyone to do, since she seems to control everyone in this book (except for Bobby, of course, which is why he is supposedly such a “bully”). Eventually, Karen and Andrew leave to go back to the little house. Karen is preoccupied throughout the rest of the day about what she’s going to do to Bobby for the prank calls. She assures us that “it was not going to be a war with guns or bombs, of course.” No kidding, Karen.
Before Karen falls asleep, she has a “great idea.” (Yikes. We all know what “great ideas” from Karen and Kristy means.)
Karen waited patiently a few days to put her plan into action. One day, when she was in the car with the Daweses, she finally sees what she was looking for: Mrs. Gianelli had hung their laundry on the clothesline outside their house. She asked Nancy if she had heard what Bobby was doing after school, and Nancy confirms that he is at his bromance partner Ricky’s house. Karen is elated. She then ditched Nancy and sneaked over to the Gianellis’ house-she cut across other peoples’ backyards, hid behind trees, and ducked behind bushes. Because you know, that doesn’t seem suspicious at all.
She got to Bobby’s yard, hid behind a pile of wood, and looked at the laundry. She surveyed the different underwear, deducing what belonged to the parents and what belonged to his sister. (For some reason, I giggled when she said, “It was not the little frilly panties. Those belonged to his sister.”) She located Bobby’s underwear, snatched them off the clothesline, and ran back to her house.
So, let us recap the crimes Karen just committed:
1. Several counts of trespassing, as she walked through different peoples’ backyards to get to the Gianellis’, and then intruded on the Gianellis’ property. Back in chapter 3, she threw a hissy fit that Bobby couldn’t be near her yard because it was “private property.” Yet another hypocritical Karen Brewer moment.
2. One count of theft, as she pilfered Bobby’s underwear from the Gianellis’ clothesline. This one seems pretty obvious.
Also interesting: Karen made a comment that she “did not think [she] was stealing” because she “planned to return the underwear to Bobby the next day.” So she’s using the “I did not steal it, I just borrowed it for a little while” logic to justify her stealing. Honey, that excuse is older than you are.
3. One count of conspiring against another person. She planned this out in advance, as the book says she was thinking about what to do to Bobby all evening, and once she got the plan, she patiently sat back and waiting for the right moment to act. Thus, the action was clearly premeditated.
4. Arguably, she has also one count of stalking here. I don’t know if this would technically be considered stalking if it was to go to court, but I think it should. She’s practically stalked Bobby’s house all through the book.
Conclusion: If this were anyone but Karen Brewer, they would probably be thrown in jail for this. But oh no, not Karen.
The next day, she took the underwear to school and displayed them for the class. Everyone laughed, of course, and she announced that it was Bobby’s underwear. Bobby flipped his crap, at first trying to insult her by calling her “Karen Tutu” again. But Karen continued to display them, making the girls giggle and the boys rip on him for his chosen style (Hank Reubens: “Nice shorts, Bobby!”) Bobby whines like a little bitch, defensively telling everyone to shut up and still trying to get Karen to give him his undies back. Just then, Ms. Coleman cleared her throat and all of the students raced for their seats. Bobby quickly took his underwear from Karen and hid them, threatening to get Karen back for this.
Of course, Ms. Coleman said nothing about this whole incident.
Moral of the story: commit several crimes and as long as everyone laughs, you won’t get in trouble. Lovely lesson to be teaching young children, AMM.
Chapter 17
The chapter is called “Minnie Mouse,” but I want to rename it “Karma’s a Bitch.”
The next day, Seth is driving Nancy and Karen to school, and they are still giggling about the underwear incident and talking shit about Bobby. They are talking in low voices so Seth won’t hear them. Seth, of course, doesn’t notice that something is up. Which is funny, because if my father had heard my friends and I whispering in the backseat, he would have immediately been all, “Okay, little ladies, one of you had better tell me what is going on. Now.”
Karen and Nancy get to school and see Bobby standing by the front door of the school with a shit-eating grin on his face. Karen is a little nervous about that grin, but keeps walking. Bobby follows them. When they all enter Ms. Coleman’s classroom, the entire class bursts out laughing. Karen asks Nancy why they are laughing, but before Nancy can say anything, Hannie suddenly shouts from the back of the room, “Karen! Look!”
Bobby is “parading” (exact wording) around the room holding up a pair of Karen’s underwear, which he has attached to a stick like a flag. And not just any underwear: Karen’s pink, ruffly, baby Minnie Mouse panties that Nannie had bought for her. Karen is outraged, demanding to know where Bobby got her undies. To which he replies, “Same place you got my underwear.” Apparently, Bobby had sneaked into Karen’s backyard and stolen her undies off the Engle-Brewer clothesline.
So Bobby has committed a copy-cat crime by sneaking into Karen’s yard and stealing her underwear. I see Karen’s influence over others has lead more young people to a life of crime.
Karen is all freaked out and embarrassed because the boys are seeing her underwear. Gee, Karen, weren’t you all haughty and proud of yourself yesterday because the girls were seeing Bobby’s underwear? This proves that Karen clearly cannot handle what she dishes out.
Hannie, who is not laughing, gets everyone to stop laughing by announcing that Ms. Coleman is coming. The kids all run to their desks. Bobby removes Karen’s panties from the stick and hands them back to Karen. Hannie then reveals that she had lied, Ms. Coleman isn’t actually coming. Bobby doesn’t care. He is still smiling his shit-eating grin and basking in his victory over Karen.
Ms. Coleman really does arrive a few minutes later, and Karen sulks in her seat. She looks at Ricky, who is sitting in his desk refusing to look at her. Once again, he refuses to choose between his pretend wife and his bromance partner, which pisses Karen off. (I’m beginning to think Ricky is the only sane person in this entire story.) Karen contemplates telling on Bobby, but then she remembers that she did the same thing to him yesterday, so she’d get in trouble, too. So she says nothing.
Well, Karen, like I said. Karma’s a bitch.
For the rest of the day, everyone keeps calling Karen “Minnie,” except for Hannie, Nancy, and Ricky. The two other Musketeers are defending their friend (not that she deserves it, after that crap with the slumber party), and Ricky probably just doesn’t want to acknowledge the drama. But even though her friends are being so cool, Karen decides that she is going to hole up in her room after school and never come out.
Okay, now I’m really mad.
One time in grade school, I got made fun of so badly in my class that even my friends turned against me. I holed up in my room and faked sick for two days because I had virtually no one in my corner. In Karen’s case, she has three loyal friends who aren’t making fun of her, yet she thinks that her life is so horrible that she must stay home and sulk in her room for the rest of her life? Fuck you, Karen! You have NO idea how lucky you are to even have those three good friends. I would have been happy with just ONE, and considering some of the horror stories I’ve heard about people who were picked on in school, I don’t think I’m alone here.
Chapter 18
This next chapter opens with Karen sulking in her room for over an hour until Andrew knocked on her door. He sat down in her armchair and asked why Karen was upset with him. Karen is confused, so he explains that she was a bitch to him in the car on the way home for school, and even called him a “twerp,” and then she wouldn’t eat her afternoon snack with him, and then she went to her room and slammed the door. So he was upset because he thought that she was mad at him.
Awww. I suddenly want to give Andrew a hug.
Karen, apparently having somewhat of a conscience here, explains that she isn’t mad at Andrew, she’s mad because of what had happened with Bobby at school. She explained about the prank phone calls, and how that made Karen start a war with Bobby, but then her plan backfired and instead of rolling over and taking it like a little bitch, Bobby retaliated against her.
Andrew, suddenly having a moment of clarity, asked Karen if she was having the Underwear War because Bobby had been picking on him. Karen says yes, in some ways, because she was responsible for standing up for him.
Ohhhhh Karen. WAY wrong thing to ever say to a younger sibling. WAY wrong thing.
Andrew is offended. He tells Karen that he can stand up for himself. He walked out of her room, saying that he needed to go to his own room “to think.” Karen abandons her plan to stay holed up in her room forever and follows her brother to his room. She sits with him while he thinks, saying the following:
Andrew was going to do something and I had to know what it was. He could not go around doing things without me. He needed me to protect him. After all, I am his big sister.
Okay. Listen. I am the youngest sibling in my family. I’ve heard this kind of stuff from older siblings all my life, about needing to “protect” them and such. But the little sister in me is screaming at Karen right now: “NO! Let him do it himself! He’s not a baby, Karen! Andrew has to learn to do this without you holding his hand!” The last-born child always gets treated like the baby who can’t do anything for themselves, no matter how old they are. Hell, I’m 26 years old and my family STILL refuses to believe that I am a grown woman who is perfectly capable of taking care of conflicts without their help. So I’m a little annoyed with Karen here. I understand she wants to stick up for her brother but… I think you have to be the youngest to understand my annoyance.
Chapter 19
Andrew is quiet for the next few days, making Lisa think that he might be ill. But he’s not sick, he’s still “thinking.” This continues until the following Saturday, when the Brewer kids are outside. Karen and Nancy are discussing baby names on Karen’s front steps, and Andrew is playing ball with some other neighborhood kids.
And who comes walking up but Bobby. He walks up the sidewalk of Karen’s house, and the little kids stop playing. He says hello to Andrew, and starts teasing him about the “killer bees.” This time, though, Andrew is not afraid. He says, “Well, I guess you have seen the snake by now.”
Bobby is confused, so Andrew continues to tell him about a giant python on the loose with huge, sharp teeth that will bite and squeeze you to death. While he was talking, Andrew pulled a rubber snake out of his pocket and threw it in front of Bobby, who started freaking out. Then he turned to Karen and started yelling at her (?? What does she have to do with any of this ??) about how he never wanted to move to their neighborhood, about how he never had to worry about snakes at his old house, about how he wants to live in his old house in his old neighborhood, and how he’s jealous that Karen and Andrew get to go back and forth between their “old house” (I guess he means the big house?) and their “new house” (I guess he means the little house?). Apparently, Bobby is close to tears while he yells at her.
Karen, who has apparently now gained psychological expertise after the incident with Amanda and Melody at her party, suddenly realizes that maybe Bobby is such an asshole to her because he misses his old house and wishes he could still go to it, like Karen can. Karen starts to say something to Bobby, but Andrew stops her. He admits to Bobby that there was no snake, he made it up to get him back at him. Just then, all of the other little kids corner Bobby and demand to know about the killer bees.
Andrew, you freaking rock. You totally just proved that you don’t need Karen’s help to own the neighborhood jerk. Go Andrew!
Chapter 20
The girls join everyone as Bobby explains that he made up the story about the bees and the story about Karen’s glasses and the Martian spies. Andrew starts to walk away, but Karen stops him and forces him to apologize. Andrew pouts, but begrudgingly apologizes to Bobby, who begrudgingly does the same. Karen joins in and apologizes to Bobby, and he returns the apology.
I’m waiting for Nancy to say in a motherly voice, “Now give him a hug!” But she did not.
Later that afternoon, Bobby returns to their house with his little sister. He introduces her as Alicia, and she is the same age as Andrew. He tells Andrew that she does not know any other kids, so he wants him to introduce her to some of the others so she can make some new friends. Karen joins and tells Andrew to “show her around.” Andrew “inspected” Alicia (direct quote), all flabbergasted because he’s at that age where girls are icky. He asks Alicia how old she really is, and she says that she just turned four. Andrew then gets all smiley, saying that he is “almost five,” so he is older than her, so yeah, sure, he’ll show her around!
I literally just smiled at that part. I think Andrew may have just gotten his first crush.
Andrew leads Alicia away for their first date her tour of the neighborhood. Karen and Bobby awkwardly stare at each other, and then Karen invites him inside. She calls Ricky and invites him to come over so they can all three play together. Ricky agrees, and his father drives him over to Karen’s house. When he gets out of the car, he is all smiles, happy that his pretend wife and his bromance partner have signed a peace treaty and now they can ALL be friends.
The story ends with the three of them playing marbles together, with all tied up in a neat little BSCLS package. The “Bricky Bromance” is now the “Bricky Bromance + Karen.”
This sounds very “After School Special.”
That concludes Karen's Bully. I hope that you all enjoyed it! I will try to come back with another snark again sometime. Bye, everyone!