BSC SUPER SPECIAL # 5: CALIFORNIA GIRLS!! OR MOST OF THIS BOOK TAKES PLACE AT THE BEACH!!! PART 2!!

[bleeding_thorn2]

BSC SUPER SPECIAL # 5: CALIFORNIA GIRLS!! OR MOST OF THIS BOOK TAKES PLACE AT THE BEACH!!! PART 2!!Hello fellow peeps!! Hope everyone is warm where they are, it’s freaking windy here and I am waiting for the ninja squirrel and demonic cat to fly past my house, it is that windy

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[anabellabobella]

I have an ipod but I think I still prefer the dated reference to walkman since that was the item originally being mentioned.

This is why I'm trying to get all of the first 39 Nancy Drew books as printed before 1959. After that, the books were re-written to be "less racist" (basically things like black housekeepers were viewed as racist, so the solution was to turn them into white people), and Nancy was rewritten as a good girl 1950's style by making her less assertive than her original self.

Dawn says that Carol is too old to act like she’s one of their friends at 32--Cause being friendly is something that goes out of style once you hit a certain age.

It's not so much that Carol's trying to be their best friend who'll chat on the phone all night. She's going to be Dawn's step-mother (I think knew where it was headed), and was just trying to be nice to Jack's daughter and her friends.

Now what's creepy is a friend I have who, at 36, is BFFs with a 12-year-old. They'll have slumber parties and everything. When Michael Jackson did it, it was seen as strange. But when a woman does it, it seems like I'm one of few who see any problem with it. This friend would prefer to hang out with that 12-year-old than with actual adult, and she's actually organized outings for our social society group around when the kid can go, and if the kid can't go because of age, like it's 21+ venue, then the event won't happen.

And now that kid has become a damned little snot that makes me absolutely adore Karen. Bratley thinks she's better and smarter than her classmates since HER BFF is a middle-aged woman, and that woman encourages the thinking by always telling the kid how she IS so much smarter because she carries around Grisham books instead of Lord of the Rings.

It's really uncomfortable going to weekend events when the 12-year-old kid is always there. Try talking about sexy men or other adult topics when a pre-teen is right there sneering at you because she still thinks boys are icky.

So there does come a point when being friend-friends with someone stops being appropriate. Mentor? Sure. Step-parent? Absolutely. BFFs? NO.

I honestly don't know why the kid's mom is okay with this. As a mother myself, I'd be really weary of a non-related adult who isn't even a friend of mine or any of my friends having such an interest in my daughter.

[shatisarockgod]

Something tells me those Nancy Drew books are hard to find, are they? I know we still have ebay and places like that around but if they're on the rare side, I know that tends to jack the prices up for the stuff you don't see in that many places.

I'd definitely label the BFF friendship as being on the unusual side and I can see where you or anybody else would have a problem with it. It gets even stranger how this kid is basically the factor on if the other people in your friends group can go somewhere or not if your friend is the one choosing the event.

[anabellabobella]

We had a large group camping trip planned. Cancelled since the kid doesn't like camping. We had a group horseback-riding day planned. Cancelled since the kid doesn't like horses. Our social group had 67 adults, and 3 of them are the official leaders (they hep keep things organized), and then she went off and made the kid a leader, so we're supposed to defer to the kid. We've lost members who don't want to bow down to a bratty 12-year-old kid who won't hesitate to make other, younger kids cry. Yet Jean thinks this girl is the best, smartest, bestest kid EVARRRR.

Since most events are planned as adult-only, but are in places where kids can legally be, the girl can go since she's a leader of the group. We no longer have official outings places the girl can't go, or anywhere she doesn't want to go.

[bleeding_thorn2]

I wouldn't want to bow down to a kid either. I got a feeling the group is not going to last much longer because of the craziness of the lady with the kid.

[bleeding_thorn2]

That is so wrong, a 36 year old woman hanging out with a twelve year old that isn't related to her.

The parents of the kids MJ hung out with where ok with it too, the he turned out to be a sicko.

[anabellabobella]

There was so much evidence that MJ never hurt anyone. The boy who made the accusation HAS come out and said he was coached by his father.

MJ also gets a bit of leeway where my friend doesn't, because MJ was mentally fucked up by his upbringing, and very likely was incapable of seeing the difference between adult and child.

If my friend was mentoring the girl, some hanging out wouldn't be an issue. But she plans events for our social society around the kid, cancels plans with other adults for the kid, got the kid a goddamned cell phone, is helping the girl sneak time with a boyfriend, basically acting like a pre-teen herself, a pre-teen with some money and a disregard for rules.