BSC#100 Kristy's Worst Idea
I've been wanting to snark this book for a while but haven't been able to find it. Where do you guys usually find your books? Anyway, I finally found it at one of the local libraries and scooped it up. It is SO snarkable, and so rage-inducing, but also kind of awesome in a way.
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Cover:
This is the 100th book, which is like SO SPECIAL, so the cover is a glittery silver. Everyone is in Claudia’s room screaming at each other. Abby and Kristy both have their hands out. I was always on Abby’s side in this book, but I also always hated her facial expression on this cover, it really made me want to punch her. Stacey is pointing her finger at Kristy, Mary Anne and Claudia are having a face-off, and poor helpless Jessi and Mal are sitting on their sacred floor spot, looking sad and helpless.
Chapter 1-
This is a Lerangis book, so the book starts with a quote. Kristy is on the phone with Mary Anne and can barely hear her. The Brewer-Thomas household is in utter chaos. They just got back from Hawaii and they had flight delays and it took forever to get home. Also, I noticed K.Ron said she didn’t know what time they got home, because she was asleep, so I wonder if someone carried her into the house, but that would be weird.
The next morning, there were frantic, tearful messages from Mary Anne on the answering machine. I would make fun of Mary Anne for thinking they died instead of just being jetlagged or delayed, but I am literally exactly like that.
Then we get this beauty of a paragraph:
“As you may have guessed, I have a forceful personality. My friends say I’m bossy and stubborn, but don’t listen to them. They’re all members of the Babysitters Club, and I’m their president, so bossiness is just part of the deal. Period.”
That’s… really unhealthy. Why do you need to be bossy to your friends? Are you a dictator? Are you their teacher, their mother? I don’t give a shit if you’re president. Don’t treat your friends like they’re less than you.
They mention that SMS had a trip to Hawaii. I am not surprised. Seriously, how many middle schools take their students on such fancy trips? Also, was there a book about this? I don’t remember.
Emily is screaming in Kristy’s face, and Kristy tells her to go to Nannie. I feel like Nannie really stands for “nanny” as in babysitter, instead of grandmother at this point. That’s what she is. I understand she moved in to help out, but she’s doing way more than that. She is raising Emily. You rarely see Emily with her parents. She’s either with a BSC member, or Nannie.
There’s apparently a terrible smell in the refrigerator, and jeez, now they’re doing stupid nose holding talk: “Doe. Just sub moldy food.” Also, the house is apparently so loud that Mary Anne’s voice on the other line saying “How was Hawaii?” sounds like “House of Wiley.” Sigh. Their fridge must be broken if something went bad in it, right? Or can it still go bad?
Charlie wants to use the phone to call a girl named Sarah (how does he have time to meet anyone when he is always driving Kristy’s ass around), and Sam wants to call some girl whom he won’t identify (my money is on Stacey.)
Anyway, Kristy is crabby because Abby took over as president when she was gone. She’s jealous of her success. I bet the club likes Abby better as prez because she isn’t bossy (and proud) and dictatorial. Mary Anne says Abby helped run some kind of Mexican festival. There isn’t much detail about what it exactly was, but I am sure it involved a lot of children. It raised money for orphaned children, which is great, but the fact that Abby organized the whole thing is kind of unrealistic. How are 13 year olds able to run festivals?! And do all the other crap that these kids do.
Kristy tells Mary Anne she will see her at Monday’s meeting, and Mary Anne is surprised Kristy would still want to have one on Labor Day. Mary Anne is absolutely right, since people make plans for this holiday, but I am surprised that she is so shocked that Kristy still wants to have one. Kristy wouldn’t cancel a BSC meeting for a monsoon! She really should cancel the meeting for Labor Day, though. Also, she doesn’t agree with Mary Anne that the meeting should be canceled because the “BSC isn’t labor.” I beg to differ.
It turns out Claudia and Jessi have holiday plans. What a surprise. Cancel the meeting, Kristy.
Chapter 2
But she doesn’t. This is a very rage-inducing chapter. K-Ron shows signs of dictatorship and abuse and acts like she is the rest of the Cult’s boss in a job at a six-figure job.
Anyway, her loyal minions, or terrified prisoners, decided to go through with the Labor Day weekend through the bribery of receiving presents. It is unsurprising that Mallory receives earrings as her present (though she gets clip-ons for some reason, although we all know by book #100 she already has her ears pierced). Stacey gets a ukulele for some reason, Mary Anne gets sunglasses, Abby gets a hula grass hat, and Claudia gets a tacky clock that is very Claudia. Jessi’s parents are actually competent in this book and wouldn’t let her leave a Labor Day family barbecue for the BSC meeting. Major point for the Ramseys I must say. The Kishis, on the other end, bent to Kristy’s will, and left their party early. No seriously, the whole family left the party so that K-Ron can be happy. Janine is reasonably pissed. Like, seriously… they left their aunt and uncle’s party early, before they can even EAT, so that they can open their home to the BSC members. What the actual… you know what, forget it. I forgot that in Stoneybrook 13-year-olds are the most responsible adults in the area, more responsible than the actual adults, and therefore, they control the adults. So if two parents are at a party, they have to leave so that a 13 year old can have a cult meeting. Sounds pretty healthy.
Mallory timidly asks the dictator if they can end the meeting early so that she can see her uncle. K-Ron compassionately responds by ignoring the question and asking if there’s any new business.
Does anyone else think the BSC isn’t that great an idea? Babysitting agencies were already a thing long ago. Richard used one in Mary Anne’s flashback in Babysitters’ Remember, in fact. And I actually think it would be more convenient to call for a babysitter on your own time instead of at specific half hour intervals 3 days a week.
Everyone ignores Kristy as she complains about the amount in the treasury, in favor of playing with Claudia’s dolphin shaped gumball machine. Then we get this priceless gem from K-Ron:
“Honestly, they walk all over me sometimes.”
I’m sorry… THEY walk all over YOU? Who forced whom to leave a family party, and ignores someone when they want to end early to be with family, and forces their friends to bend to their every will? It’s like Ann is just inviting us to hate Kristy and ridicule her. I really think this was done on purpose. Maybe this was Lerangis’ way of telling Ann her characters are fucked up.
Stacey has to miss Friday’s BSC meeting because she is seeing a Broadway show with her dad, and Abby totally BURNS Kristy by sarcastically making the Macaulay Culkin face and saying “Doesn’t he know it’s the night of a BSC meeting?” Kristy, not sarcastically, actually has the fucking audacity to ask Stacey if he can exchange it. What is WRONG with this girl?
Mallory then announces that Jessi is a new ballet class starting Fridays at 5:15, and has reasonably suggested that they switch their Friday meeting to Thursday, and seriously that’s not a bad idea. They’d still be meeting three days a week, and parents often go out Friday nights so maybe they would want the BSC to be available to sit Friday evenings instead of having to call them at that time. But K.Ron, of course, is not okay with this. Seriously, she acts like the other cult members are making things difficult, but she’s the one who is. They have lives, and they’re willing to make reasonable accommodations to their schedule, and K.Ron just isn’t willing to be flexible. If she would get off her high horse and stop being stubborn, none of these problems would even be problems. K.Ron thinks it will confuse their clients if they switch days, and yeah, maybe they’ll make mistakes at first, but THEY WILL GET USED TO IT. It’s like Abby says “they’re parents. They’re used to changing schedules.” YES, EXACTLY. K.Ron lists some other lame excuses as to why Thursday won’t work, including that everyone is already busy on Thursday, but Mary Anne checks and they are not, so seriously, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM. K.Ron further has the audacity to say that Jessi should either quit ballet or the BSC, and sorry I need a minute to get my bearings…
Okay I’m back…
I HATE KRISTY. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE HER AN ULTIMATUM TO EITHER QUIT YOUR STUPID CULT (WHICH SHE LOVES FOR SOME REASON) OR DROP HER HOBBY AND PASSION BALLET. All because she can’t make a Friday meeting… why can’t she just miss meetings one day a week? Or… JUST SWITCH TO THURSDAYS. Jeez, Kristy makes everything difficult.
Abby has everyone vote on the Thursday meetings, and Kristy flips her lid because SHE’S the president, and how dare anyone else decide on anything. She freaks out that no one is serious anymore, and everyone is acting like normal thirteen-year-olds hanging out ever since Abby took over as president while Kristy was away. Kristy actually admits she’s being stubborn, which is SHOCKING. She very surprisingly agrees on the Thursday meeting and decides she has to win back the respect of her minions by organizing a kickass BSC project. So she decides on a “Fall Into Fall Festival Block Party” which actually sounds like fun, but very complicated and unrealistic for thirteen-year-olds (although who am I kidding, this is the BSC).
Kristy the competitive internally vows that her plan is going to kick the Mexican Festival’s ass, while everyone but her loyal follower Mallory looks at her as if she has six heads.
Chapter 3
Ew, a babysitting chapter. Mary Anne and Claudia are moody and babysit the moody Barrett-DeWitt kids. I don’t know why, but the whole plot with the DeWitt kids really gets on my nerves for some reason. I think I just find those kids annoying, and it’s just too convenient that Mrs. Barrett would marry someone who just so happens to have a plethora of kids and now their family is almost as big as the Pikes. This just isn’t as common as Ann seems to think it is.
The Wednesday meeting is awkward as ever, everyone is stressed about something or angry, and rightfully so, because Kristy was totally unreasonable at their Monday meeting (that shouldn’t have even happened because it was Labor Day). Poor Jessi can’t stop apologizing about her ballet classes. There are no calls at the Thursday meeting, but honestly, Kristy, things take getting used to. Also, even though Kristy wrote the fliers announcing the schedule change, there is still a major grammar mistake (she wrote “The BSC announces “it’s” new and improved schedule.)
Anyway, the DeWitt kids are their normal bratty, unpleasant selves (I do like the Barretts though.) Half of the kids are punished. Seriously, though, Suzi and Marnie are so cute, and the DeWitt kids, except for the baby, Ryan, act like such assholes, for example, Lindsey DeWitt hits Suzi, and Madeleine tells Marnie that Jessi, her current favorite sitter, is dead and makes her cry. Sorry, I really hate the DeWitts.
They’re all pissed about school starting and hate it, Mary Anne calms them down with games, then Claudia acts like an asshole and insists they all do an art project instead and put away the games, when really she could just do the art with kids who want to, and let the kids who want to play games play games. But the BSC members lack common sense and always create problems. Claudia basically decides that because she loves art, everyone has to, she and Mary Anne fight, Mary Anne is extremely angry at Claudia, and chaos ensues with the art projects. There, I just saved you all time.
Chapter 4
Don’t hate me, guys. Kristy has the idea to turn the maple trees on the street into apple trees by hanging apples on them with string so that the kids can go apple picking, and it’s actually not a bad idea. She does, however, say this is safer than an apple orchard which I don’t agree with (how are apple orchards unsafe?) Kristy thinks that everything has been tense because of the schedule change- No, Kristy, that is not the reason. Things are tense between you and Abby because you acted like an asshole at the meeting, and there is tension between Claudia and Mary Anne because they had a fight at a sitting job-NONE OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE SCHEDULE CHANGE. They also probably have a case of the back-t-school blues, which is normal.
Kristy believes the Fall into Fall is the perfect way to make everything smooth again. Everyone thinks the apple idea is crazy and time-consuming, and they all have insane schedules. This is the first book that’s actually realistic about life as a middle schooler-most middle schoolers do not have time to organize a bunch of shit for the neighborhood kids, because they have school work and extracurricular activities. They’re all starting to get annoyed with Kristy and her stupid ideas, even though they used to love her ideas and worship the ground she walked on before. This is one of the reasons why I liked this book, even though I also hate it because Kristy’s behavior is so rage-inducing.
Kristy decides they should do maple sugaring at the festival, and the other Cult members and I laugh at her ridiculousness. They all start making fun of Kristy and it’s pretty enjoyable. They jokingly suggest a laser light show and a hay ride with horses (which of course Jessi suggests) and Kristy actually thinks they’re serious and talks about how to make these events happen. Bitch be crazy. The others suggest some simple events like jumping in leaves, face-painting, and bobbing for apples. Kristy says they have no imagination, but no, Kristy, they’re just realistic and don’t want to spend a million years planning things because they want to be kids and focus on their personal lives.
Watson reminds them that they need to get a permit, which Kristy didn’t realize she had to do. David Michael and some of the other kids spot the string on the trees and think it’s a good idea, but then lose their spirit when Kristy says they have to help set it up. STOP INFLUENING CHILD LABOR, KRISTY. If you want to do this for the kids, do it for them. Don’t make them do it. Which proves this activity is for Kristy and her ego, not the kids.
Then Kristy gets the idea to make a leaf sculpture and literally tells Claudia she will be making it. She doesn’t ask her to make it. She tells her she is doing it.
Claudia and I think Kristy is crazy.
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Until next time! Hope you enjoyed!
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Cover:
This is the 100th book, which is like SO SPECIAL, so the cover is a glittery silver. Everyone is in Claudia’s room screaming at each other. Abby and Kristy both have their hands out. I was always on Abby’s side in this book, but I also always hated her facial expression on this cover, it really made me want to punch her. Stacey is pointing her finger at Kristy, Mary Anne and Claudia are having a face-off, and poor helpless Jessi and Mal are sitting on their sacred floor spot, looking sad and helpless.
Chapter 1-
This is a Lerangis book, so the book starts with a quote. Kristy is on the phone with Mary Anne and can barely hear her. The Brewer-Thomas household is in utter chaos. They just got back from Hawaii and they had flight delays and it took forever to get home. Also, I noticed K.Ron said she didn’t know what time they got home, because she was asleep, so I wonder if someone carried her into the house, but that would be weird.
The next morning, there were frantic, tearful messages from Mary Anne on the answering machine. I would make fun of Mary Anne for thinking they died instead of just being jetlagged or delayed, but I am literally exactly like that.
Then we get this beauty of a paragraph:
“As you may have guessed, I have a forceful personality. My friends say I’m bossy and stubborn, but don’t listen to them. They’re all members of the Babysitters Club, and I’m their president, so bossiness is just part of the deal. Period.”
That’s… really unhealthy. Why do you need to be bossy to your friends? Are you a dictator? Are you their teacher, their mother? I don’t give a shit if you’re president. Don’t treat your friends like they’re less than you.
They mention that SMS had a trip to Hawaii. I am not surprised. Seriously, how many middle schools take their students on such fancy trips? Also, was there a book about this? I don’t remember.
Emily is screaming in Kristy’s face, and Kristy tells her to go to Nannie. I feel like Nannie really stands for “nanny” as in babysitter, instead of grandmother at this point. That’s what she is. I understand she moved in to help out, but she’s doing way more than that. She is raising Emily. You rarely see Emily with her parents. She’s either with a BSC member, or Nannie.
There’s apparently a terrible smell in the refrigerator, and jeez, now they’re doing stupid nose holding talk: “Doe. Just sub moldy food.” Also, the house is apparently so loud that Mary Anne’s voice on the other line saying “How was Hawaii?” sounds like “House of Wiley.” Sigh. Their fridge must be broken if something went bad in it, right? Or can it still go bad?
Charlie wants to use the phone to call a girl named Sarah (how does he have time to meet anyone when he is always driving Kristy’s ass around), and Sam wants to call some girl whom he won’t identify (my money is on Stacey.)
Anyway, Kristy is crabby because Abby took over as president when she was gone. She’s jealous of her success. I bet the club likes Abby better as prez because she isn’t bossy (and proud) and dictatorial. Mary Anne says Abby helped run some kind of Mexican festival. There isn’t much detail about what it exactly was, but I am sure it involved a lot of children. It raised money for orphaned children, which is great, but the fact that Abby organized the whole thing is kind of unrealistic. How are 13 year olds able to run festivals?! And do all the other crap that these kids do.
Kristy tells Mary Anne she will see her at Monday’s meeting, and Mary Anne is surprised Kristy would still want to have one on Labor Day. Mary Anne is absolutely right, since people make plans for this holiday, but I am surprised that she is so shocked that Kristy still wants to have one. Kristy wouldn’t cancel a BSC meeting for a monsoon! She really should cancel the meeting for Labor Day, though. Also, she doesn’t agree with Mary Anne that the meeting should be canceled because the “BSC isn’t labor.” I beg to differ.
It turns out Claudia and Jessi have holiday plans. What a surprise. Cancel the meeting, Kristy.
Chapter 2
But she doesn’t. This is a very rage-inducing chapter. K-Ron shows signs of dictatorship and abuse and acts like she is the rest of the Cult’s boss in a job at a six-figure job.
Anyway, her loyal minions, or terrified prisoners, decided to go through with the Labor Day weekend through the bribery of receiving presents. It is unsurprising that Mallory receives earrings as her present (though she gets clip-ons for some reason, although we all know by book #100 she already has her ears pierced). Stacey gets a ukulele for some reason, Mary Anne gets sunglasses, Abby gets a hula grass hat, and Claudia gets a tacky clock that is very Claudia. Jessi’s parents are actually competent in this book and wouldn’t let her leave a Labor Day family barbecue for the BSC meeting. Major point for the Ramseys I must say. The Kishis, on the other end, bent to Kristy’s will, and left their party early. No seriously, the whole family left the party so that K-Ron can be happy. Janine is reasonably pissed. Like, seriously… they left their aunt and uncle’s party early, before they can even EAT, so that they can open their home to the BSC members. What the actual… you know what, forget it. I forgot that in Stoneybrook 13-year-olds are the most responsible adults in the area, more responsible than the actual adults, and therefore, they control the adults. So if two parents are at a party, they have to leave so that a 13 year old can have a cult meeting. Sounds pretty healthy.
Mallory timidly asks the dictator if they can end the meeting early so that she can see her uncle. K-Ron compassionately responds by ignoring the question and asking if there’s any new business.
Does anyone else think the BSC isn’t that great an idea? Babysitting agencies were already a thing long ago. Richard used one in Mary Anne’s flashback in Babysitters’ Remember, in fact. And I actually think it would be more convenient to call for a babysitter on your own time instead of at specific half hour intervals 3 days a week.
Everyone ignores Kristy as she complains about the amount in the treasury, in favor of playing with Claudia’s dolphin shaped gumball machine. Then we get this priceless gem from K-Ron:
“Honestly, they walk all over me sometimes.”
I’m sorry… THEY walk all over YOU? Who forced whom to leave a family party, and ignores someone when they want to end early to be with family, and forces their friends to bend to their every will? It’s like Ann is just inviting us to hate Kristy and ridicule her. I really think this was done on purpose. Maybe this was Lerangis’ way of telling Ann her characters are fucked up.
Stacey has to miss Friday’s BSC meeting because she is seeing a Broadway show with her dad, and Abby totally BURNS Kristy by sarcastically making the Macaulay Culkin face and saying “Doesn’t he know it’s the night of a BSC meeting?” Kristy, not sarcastically, actually has the fucking audacity to ask Stacey if he can exchange it. What is WRONG with this girl?
Mallory then announces that Jessi is a new ballet class starting Fridays at 5:15, and has reasonably suggested that they switch their Friday meeting to Thursday, and seriously that’s not a bad idea. They’d still be meeting three days a week, and parents often go out Friday nights so maybe they would want the BSC to be available to sit Friday evenings instead of having to call them at that time. But K.Ron, of course, is not okay with this. Seriously, she acts like the other cult members are making things difficult, but she’s the one who is. They have lives, and they’re willing to make reasonable accommodations to their schedule, and K.Ron just isn’t willing to be flexible. If she would get off her high horse and stop being stubborn, none of these problems would even be problems. K.Ron thinks it will confuse their clients if they switch days, and yeah, maybe they’ll make mistakes at first, but THEY WILL GET USED TO IT. It’s like Abby says “they’re parents. They’re used to changing schedules.” YES, EXACTLY. K.Ron lists some other lame excuses as to why Thursday won’t work, including that everyone is already busy on Thursday, but Mary Anne checks and they are not, so seriously, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM. K.Ron further has the audacity to say that Jessi should either quit ballet or the BSC, and sorry I need a minute to get my bearings…
Okay I’m back…
I HATE KRISTY. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE HER AN ULTIMATUM TO EITHER QUIT YOUR STUPID CULT (WHICH SHE LOVES FOR SOME REASON) OR DROP HER HOBBY AND PASSION BALLET. All because she can’t make a Friday meeting… why can’t she just miss meetings one day a week? Or… JUST SWITCH TO THURSDAYS. Jeez, Kristy makes everything difficult.
Abby has everyone vote on the Thursday meetings, and Kristy flips her lid because SHE’S the president, and how dare anyone else decide on anything. She freaks out that no one is serious anymore, and everyone is acting like normal thirteen-year-olds hanging out ever since Abby took over as president while Kristy was away. Kristy actually admits she’s being stubborn, which is SHOCKING. She very surprisingly agrees on the Thursday meeting and decides she has to win back the respect of her minions by organizing a kickass BSC project. So she decides on a “Fall Into Fall Festival Block Party” which actually sounds like fun, but very complicated and unrealistic for thirteen-year-olds (although who am I kidding, this is the BSC).
Kristy the competitive internally vows that her plan is going to kick the Mexican Festival’s ass, while everyone but her loyal follower Mallory looks at her as if she has six heads.
Chapter 3
Ew, a babysitting chapter. Mary Anne and Claudia are moody and babysit the moody Barrett-DeWitt kids. I don’t know why, but the whole plot with the DeWitt kids really gets on my nerves for some reason. I think I just find those kids annoying, and it’s just too convenient that Mrs. Barrett would marry someone who just so happens to have a plethora of kids and now their family is almost as big as the Pikes. This just isn’t as common as Ann seems to think it is.
The Wednesday meeting is awkward as ever, everyone is stressed about something or angry, and rightfully so, because Kristy was totally unreasonable at their Monday meeting (that shouldn’t have even happened because it was Labor Day). Poor Jessi can’t stop apologizing about her ballet classes. There are no calls at the Thursday meeting, but honestly, Kristy, things take getting used to. Also, even though Kristy wrote the fliers announcing the schedule change, there is still a major grammar mistake (she wrote “The BSC announces “it’s” new and improved schedule.)
Anyway, the DeWitt kids are their normal bratty, unpleasant selves (I do like the Barretts though.) Half of the kids are punished. Seriously, though, Suzi and Marnie are so cute, and the DeWitt kids, except for the baby, Ryan, act like such assholes, for example, Lindsey DeWitt hits Suzi, and Madeleine tells Marnie that Jessi, her current favorite sitter, is dead and makes her cry. Sorry, I really hate the DeWitts.
They’re all pissed about school starting and hate it, Mary Anne calms them down with games, then Claudia acts like an asshole and insists they all do an art project instead and put away the games, when really she could just do the art with kids who want to, and let the kids who want to play games play games. But the BSC members lack common sense and always create problems. Claudia basically decides that because she loves art, everyone has to, she and Mary Anne fight, Mary Anne is extremely angry at Claudia, and chaos ensues with the art projects. There, I just saved you all time.
Chapter 4
Don’t hate me, guys. Kristy has the idea to turn the maple trees on the street into apple trees by hanging apples on them with string so that the kids can go apple picking, and it’s actually not a bad idea. She does, however, say this is safer than an apple orchard which I don’t agree with (how are apple orchards unsafe?) Kristy thinks that everything has been tense because of the schedule change- No, Kristy, that is not the reason. Things are tense between you and Abby because you acted like an asshole at the meeting, and there is tension between Claudia and Mary Anne because they had a fight at a sitting job-NONE OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE SCHEDULE CHANGE. They also probably have a case of the back-t-school blues, which is normal.
Kristy believes the Fall into Fall is the perfect way to make everything smooth again. Everyone thinks the apple idea is crazy and time-consuming, and they all have insane schedules. This is the first book that’s actually realistic about life as a middle schooler-most middle schoolers do not have time to organize a bunch of shit for the neighborhood kids, because they have school work and extracurricular activities. They’re all starting to get annoyed with Kristy and her stupid ideas, even though they used to love her ideas and worship the ground she walked on before. This is one of the reasons why I liked this book, even though I also hate it because Kristy’s behavior is so rage-inducing.
Kristy decides they should do maple sugaring at the festival, and the other Cult members and I laugh at her ridiculousness. They all start making fun of Kristy and it’s pretty enjoyable. They jokingly suggest a laser light show and a hay ride with horses (which of course Jessi suggests) and Kristy actually thinks they’re serious and talks about how to make these events happen. Bitch be crazy. The others suggest some simple events like jumping in leaves, face-painting, and bobbing for apples. Kristy says they have no imagination, but no, Kristy, they’re just realistic and don’t want to spend a million years planning things because they want to be kids and focus on their personal lives.
Watson reminds them that they need to get a permit, which Kristy didn’t realize she had to do. David Michael and some of the other kids spot the string on the trees and think it’s a good idea, but then lose their spirit when Kristy says they have to help set it up. STOP INFLUENING CHILD LABOR, KRISTY. If you want to do this for the kids, do it for them. Don’t make them do it. Which proves this activity is for Kristy and her ego, not the kids.
Then Kristy gets the idea to make a leaf sculpture and literally tells Claudia she will be making it. She doesn’t ask her to make it. She tells her she is doing it.
Claudia and I think Kristy is crazy.
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Until next time! Hope you enjoyed!