Snowbound! Part 4!

[road_baby]

First off, I want to thank you all for the lovely well wishes! You guys are the best! Things here are going okay though I did have to cancel a doctor appointment so I've been sweating over getting my meds in time. I needed to distract myself some so, I had to snark. It's really weird reading about a blizzard when it's in the 70s. And that there's a

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[heymalice]

LMFAO! wow, this was awesome. killy killy bang bang, ape children, ann's stupidity, the total smackdown on that awful pike picture...this is excellent! i had a shit night&woke up still feeling blah, but this totally brightened my mood. so hilarious! it's a toss up between stacey's chapter&the pike sitting chapter for my favourite of this part, i really can't decide. but i like your version of what happens to stacey&her mom waaaaaay better than the boring tripe in the actual book.

this is seriously fantastic&epic. XD <3

[road_baby]

Awww! Thank you! I'm glad it cheered you up! That means I'm doing my job!

[heymalice]

:D
i reread parts of it last night&was laughing just as hard. you totally rock, girl!

[road_baby]

♥!

[shortsweetcynic]

Stacey says the storm is 'angry and unreasonable' so, I vote for naming the storm 'Kristy'.

actual LOL. :D

your snark is completely on point. i must have read this book a hundred times when i was younger (and i got it on my kindle again recently just for old time's sake) but all of this is hilarious and SO TRUE.

[road_baby]

Thank you! I always liked this one too because I was fascinated by snow. But reading it as an adult it's just like 'Why is everyone so full of fail?!'

[darth_firefly]

It seems to me that logic dictates that Richard should have stayed at the Pikes. Given the weather, he has to realize that Dawn and Sharon are stuck at the airport. I don't care how mature Mary Anne and Mallory think they are - I'm also fairly certain that it's ILLEGAL for kids that young to be alone in the house overnight. Or at least, a bad idea. Not to mention Richard most likely would have opened the pantry and said "Oh look, here's some cereal, you can eat that. There's fruit in that bowl, and look at these vegetables in the fridge!" Anyone who whines goes hungry.

Same with Claudia's mom. She should have just put her foot down and said 'Honey, I know you're responsible, but I would feel better if I was there with you, just in case.' Because honestly? A girl who doesn't think to check the basement for a Labrador (those dogs are massive!) needs an adult.

Excellent snarking.

Yes, this storm should be named 'Kristy'

[anabellabobella]

It makes sense for him to go home. If they don't have an answering machine, he would need to be home if they called. But if the Pikes decided to care about their kids and call, someone needs to be there too. The Pikes are the ones who made the logic error, like usual.

A blizzard is an emergency situation that would result in any overnight laws not being enforced.

I wouldn't worry about Claudia with the Perkins girls. Those mini-adults can raise themselves.

[darth_firefly]

True... there is so much logic fail in this book, it's painful.

[shatisarockgod]

Yeah, I absolutely agree with Claudia's mom and Richard should've stayed at the houses with everybody. Of course we can all expect some Becky Conner-like whining about how "We're old enough to take care of ourselves! Don't you trust us to have everything under control?"

The dog couldn't have been asleep the entire time. Let me put it this way...I've got cats that can sound like they could rip a door off its hinges if they want in or out of a room. No joke. I can only imagine a dog would be even louder.

[anabellabobella]

Um, when she got divorced, stupid. Did you really think she'd keep wearing it?

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So, she was wearing gloves but somehow Stacey noticed she wasn't wearing her wedding ring anymore.

Some divorced people keep them on a while and Stacey could have noticed the lack of ring earlier.

Maureen blinks the headlights and Stacey starts panicking that he could be a murderer.

Dammit, Stacey. Take your chances. Staying in the car overnight is guaranteed death in a blizzard. That's why Maureen is smart enough to take this chance, though she's still plenty stupid.

Also, Richard? Honey? They wouldn't be able to call you anyway with the power out.

Oh, you child of the non-corded era. The phones with cords don't use electricity.

The next morning Claudia makes the kids breakfast and then gives them maple syrup over fresh snow.

Real maple syrup is expensive. This is also yummy to do. The syrup hardens like candy.

The next day, Mme Noelle announces that the coffee shop across the street invited the whole school over for free

[road_baby]

Stacey only notices Maureen's lack of a ring in the car. Also, lol! I'm probably the oldest member of this comm so I def remember corded phones. I don't remember that they would stay on when the power was out but we never had many outages. But in the book they mention that the phones are out along with the power. I've always wanted to try the maple syrup over snow thing but I've never even seen snow my whole life.

[anabellabobella]

Ah, it wasn't clear that she didn't notice it until the car. X-ray vision!

Over or under 40? 30?

Yeah, the old corded phones weren't power. They plugged into the jack, but no power source unless they were cordless. Even today, it's a good idea to keep a corded phone in your home in case of emergency since you can still plug it in and call 911, even without service, even when the power is out. Since they're hard wire, you don't have the problem of bad weather knocking out cell service, which happens if the weather is too bad that it interrupts the digital signals.

Your profile says Arizona. I thought parts of Arizona got snow. I love blizzards, and am pissed we've been screwed out of a real winter this year. If you ever get the chance to see snow, you should take it. It's fun stuff, and does taste good!

[road_baby]

I just turned 35 in the 14th! Being born right at the beginning of January meant I was always older than all my friends in school. I live in Phoenix so nope, no snow for me. I've never been to anywhere up in Northern AZ where they do get snow. I am moving to the Northwest though so hopefully I'll get to see some sometime in my lifetime!

[jolikescake]

What bugs me about the Pikes is that Dee specifically said they have breakfast, lunch money, dinner, and then breakfast for the next day. So what's the problem, other than the kids are pigs??

You know what my mum would have done if I spent the entire evening after dinner AND hot chocolate moaning I was hungry? She wouldn't have run around stressing about what to feed me, trying to scrape up a second dinner, she would have said "you just had dinner and hot chocolate, you don't need any more". End of story.

The next day if they got to lunch time and there was still no food, call Mary-Anne's dad for help. Or the Barretts. Or the McGills.

Moral of the story?? The Pike kids are greedy pigs.

[heymalice]

LOL! my dad, back in the day, would've said, "too bad, kitchen is closed." seriously, they had dinner! it's not like they hadn't gotten to eat all day or something, jeeeeeez...

[shatisarockgod]

I can only imagine if the Pike kids were living like the kids in Flowers in the Attic because they definitely had to ration the food and it wasn't like Cathy or Christopher could just walk downstairs, walk next door or even go to a grocery store on their own in order to get more food. They were totally dependent on the grandmother bringing up the food. And sometimes Cathy and Christopher had to do with very little so Carrie and Cory could get the majority of the little that was left.

[heymalice]

i believe they definitely WOULD resort to cannabilism if that was the case.