Poor Mallory! Part 1!

[road_baby]

Wow, you guys. I'm so sorry this is so late. My aunt moved out and took her wi-fi with her so, I had no internet for a few days because my dumb ass didn't call the cable company ahead of time to get it to us before she left. It was rough with no internet but I got aquainted with my new Photoshop and was quite happy. Of course, I'm much happier with

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[pi_beta_alpha]

"Because you know Ann hates her enough to give her super fucked up teeth. And Mal, you won't get your braces removed, you just won't be able to get them tightened any more. So, you'll be stuck with fucked up teeth and braces."

*insert Mal doing a Home Alone scream*

"she says Mal is only allowed to wear studs and small hoop earrings."

I always got the feeling that by the time Mal reached the Magic Age of Thirteen she would either be a total bag of nervous anxiety or a completely rebellious heathen. Every other book on the planet states plainly that the Pikes have very few rules. Mal isn't allowed to wear blue push-down socks, Mal isn't allowed to cut her hair or get glasses or wear anything she likes or be a normal 11 year old child, but Claire is allowed to run around the neighborhood stark naked and the triplets are allowed to bully Nicky and they're all allowed to eat whatever they want no matter how disgusting or unhealthy because the parents can't be assed to skip their damn tennis match to put a normal, wholesome meal on the damn table.

"No words can express how much I utterly loathe Dawn"

It blows my mind to bits when I remember that Dawn was always my favorite sitter. Or maybe it was only because she had the only handwriting I could actually read.

"him losing his job is really 'stale'"

The Pike's are now the Brady's, apparently. Groovy, far out, pork chops and apple sauce and such.

"
After dinner, Mal calls all her siblings to her room and tells them they need to be extra helpful around the house."

That's kinda sweet actually :) But yeah, why do I get the feeling the triplets use an entire rainforest to blow their snot noses...

" I've never taken a school bus in my life, but can you do that? I thought you needed some kind of slip to get on a certain bus? Can they really just take on an extra kid?"

I'm not sure about bigger schools, or any school in todays time period but in my school bus days all we really did was tell our regular bus driver we were riding with so-and-so's bus that afternoon, or the next day, or whatever and it was cool. Now, they'd probably want to fingerprint you or something. Shit was so much easier when I was a kid.

"I'm sorry but dealing with Jenny is not a fucking problem until you make it one. If someone came to me and said, 'You can sit for Jenny, who wants to wear a pretty dress and play quietly, or Claire, who will run around the house screaming 'Silly billy goo goo!' and setting the hamster on fire', I ain't picking the latter."

Sign me up for the Jenny P. fan club! I hate the idea that kids who act like out of control assholes are "spirited" and "fun" and kids that don't wear the same grungy outfit for 6 years in a row and know how to conduct themselves in a sane manner while occasionally having a tantrum because HELLO, FOUR YEAR OLD OVER HERE, is some kind of heinous brat. It seems that in BSC "spirited child" is a synonym with "out of control future manipulator", KAREN.

"I do feel bad for her when she says some bitch at school came up to her at lunch to make fun of her for Pa getting fired."

I do, too.

"Tell her to go back to the attic with Miss Havisham or something"
LMAO!

[heymalice]

"Every other book on the planet states plainly that the Pikes have very few rules. Mal isn't allowed to wear blue push-down socks, Mal isn't allowed to cut her hair or get glasses or wear anything she likes or be a normal 11 year old child, but Claire is allowed to run around the neighborhood stark naked and the triplets are allowed to bully Nicky and they're all allowed to eat whatever they want no matter how disgusting or unhealthy because the parents can't be assed to skip their damn tennis match to put a normal, wholesome meal on the damn table."

yeah, very few rules my ASS. like you said, they have a ton of rules, it's just that they only apply to mal. she probably can't take a shit without asking permission in case her parents need her to watch the other kids or make someone a sandwich or clean up some spilled milk, just so they don't have to get off their own damned asses to parent the children they chose to bring into the damned world. ugh. everyone but mal is allowed to run wild&get away with murder, but god forbid the 11 year old, who is also still a CHILD, be allowed to actually be a damned child or at least have a few more privileges herself. considering they treat her like she's a live-in nanny or a third parent, they can at least show her some respect. she is raising THEIR children, after all.

[road_baby]

I can see giving Mal responsibilities because she's the oldest, but the Pikes don't balance it out with giving her any privileges. They expect her to be grown up and mature and look after her siblings but they don't let her have a say in her clothes? Or in how her hair is cut? I would love for Mal to finally say 'Fuck this noise' and start rebelling. I've actually been contemplating doing some fanfic where Mal is treated right. But I'm so bad at fiction.

Lol! I think I used to like Dawn too because of her legible handwriting. Mary Anne was my actual fave but I HATED her handwriting. And Claudia's I would usually skip all together. I remember I used to try to copy Stacey's handwriting and actually my own IS pretty close. I don't heart my Is and I write on a slant but otherwise it's close.

I think the BSC forgets that Jenny is only four. And for those four years she was an only child. OF COURSE she's gonna be a little spoiled. And like you said, she's not that big of a brat if you compare her to the likes of Karen. Karen can be downright MALICIOUS. Karen lies. Karen steals. Karen bullies. Jenny...raised her voice a few times? Does Jenny regularly, PURPOSELY frighten her younger sibling? Does Jenny steal from her family and lose heirlooms? Did Jenny throw a screaming fit because she wanted a part in a play? And Karen is like twice her age! All these things Karen gets away with and even rewarded for but Jenny can't say she wants to paint? God, what is WRONG with Ann?!