BSC#100 Kristy's Worst Idea- Part 2
Hey guys! Here is part 2! I hope you enjoy it...
Chapter 5
Kristy is so distracted making a list for the Fall Festival that her teacher’s question “What elements of storytelling does Shirley Jackson in ‘The Lottery’?” sounds like “So, what elephants smelling maximum news and lottery?” Wha-Why?! This doesn’t happen in real life. People don’t sound like that because you’re distracted. You don’t mishear them at that level, you don’t hear them at all.
Kristy is actually able to come up with an answer, but Cokie interrupts her, and honestly, not to play devil’s advocate, but if I were Kristy, that would really piss me off.
Kristy finds out she’s going to get a shitton of work this week and ponders how she will do that and babysit. Kristy-you babysit less and you stop planning elaborate events for the neighborhood children. Or you let them watch TV (*gasp*) and do some homework while they’re watching.
They find out that Stoneybrook is already organizing a fall festival for the town, on the same date as Kristy’s event. The rest of the Cult, seeming relieved, reasonably suggest they just call the whole thing off, but Kristy is relentless and tries to figure out a date to reschedule it, but at least one member already has plans on all the suggested days.
Then everyone starts telling Mary Anne about appointments they have coming up on meeting days, and I want to know how this series has been going on for 100 books already and they are JUST NOW starting to have doctors’ appointments during meeting times. How were they always conveniently able to schedule around them previously? Maybe they just don’t care about the meeting anymore.
Kristy blames this on the schedule change, but all the appointments actually fall on Mondays and Wednesdays, the original meeting days, so this would have happened whether they switched days or not.
Then Kristy says, “We set up appointments and stuff around meeting times. Gladly. Because we knew we had to.” Had to. HAD TO. I’m sorry, is this school? Is this work? No. This is a get-together among friends. It’s really creepy how Kristy believes they “have to” be there. This club is supposed to be for fun, Kristy. I can’t.
Kristy thinks this is unfair to the clients because when they call they expect seven sitters. Stacey very wisely points out that the clients can’t see who’s there, and that’s an excellent point. Babysitting agencies, and even other types of agencies where you may call someone per-diem to work as an aide for the elderly or someone with special needs do not require all of their employees to be in the same room when calls come in. The department heads receive the calls and call the rest of their employees to see who can take the job. There really is no reason for everyone to be there, and like I said before, they should be able to call whenever they want, not at a specified time. Yeah, maybe Claudia will get a lot of calls, but they have everyone’s number, they could just call them individually, and whoever can take it, takes it.
Abby also reasonably says what I was thinking, that Mary Anne can still book an absent member for a job, and that is so true. She has all their schedules on-hand anyway, and she can find out who’s free and then call to confirm. Then Claudia says that the answering machine can just pick up, and they don’t have to have meetings at all. Another great point. Or they can do what Dawn’s California club does and just have meetings whenever they feel like it, whenever it is convenient for everyone.
Claudia then adds that they have to be flexible because they are all busy. Yay for Claudia, Stacey, and Abby in this chapter, in all honesty. They’re all finally making sense and trying to take down K.Ron’s stupid rules.
Kristy storms off, angry that her minions are fighting her rigidity and being logical for once.
Chapter 6
Kristy is babysitting for the Rodowskys.
She is shocked to share that they all caved and had a meeting the afternoon of the Chapter 5 argument. Kristy said she expected a Keep Out sign on Claudia’s door and a voodoo ritual with a Kristy doll. Really kind of disappointed that this didn’t actually happen.
They all APOLOGIZED to her when she walked in. APOLOGIZED. Maybe they haven’t fully changed into normal humans who aim to take down Kristy. They’re getting there, though.
Things were a bit awkward at the meeting because there’s tension between Claudia and Mary Anne and between Kristy and Abby. Jessi and Mal must only stick to one trait only, so their way of being distant to everyone at the meeting is doing a ballet warmup, and hiding behind a book she’s reading, respectively.
Kristy is obviously a bad influence because Jackie is up in a tree so he can hang apples. She tells him to get down but he protests. Finally, he relents. She tells us about the stupid walking disaster thing that really pisses me off because it's so hurtful. If the Rodowsky parents knew about this I bet they would stop using the BSC in an instant. Anyway, Abby calls him "Sidam" as in "Midas" backwards because everything he touches turns into an accident instead of into gold. Meet the best babysitters ever.
Kristy lists some of the incidents Jackie has been Involved in, such as poking himself in the eye with a drinking straw (I have done that more times than I can count) and getting a raisin stuck in his nose (a lot of kids stick things up their noses.)
While Kristy is preoccupied with Archie, Jackie climbs the tree again, this time even higher, with only a mere branch keeping him there.
He falls and can't answer Kristy for a second because of the shock, which is super creepy. He comes to but has injured his ankle. Kristy starts beating herself up for being irresponsible. Normally I don't pass up an opportunity to insult KRon, but I have to play Devils advocate here. Sometimes even the best caretakers are present during an accident. You can turn your back for one second and a kid could have gotten into trouble. It's a scary but true reality. This one is on Jackie. Prior to the incident Kristy had warned him he could get hurt and he didn't listen.
Kristy puts ice on it and waits for the parents to come home. She really should have called them on the emergency number they left at this point, because their child could have a broken bone.
The parents aren't pleased but tell Kristy it's okay. Kristy starts questioning whether or not she was ever a good sitter to begin with and thinks she should stop babysitting. Whoa is this real life?
Chapter 7
BSC meeting. Kristy is pissed because Abby and Mary Anne are late and she "hates lateness." Well suck it up, buttercup, shit happens. You would think you would have figured out by now that everyone is getting sick and tired of your rigidity and you would have starred to chill out a bit. It turns out Jackie sprained his ankle and Kristy still feels like shit.
Poor Mallory, terrified of her dictator Kristy (this is so unhealthy you guys I can't deal), is bright red and stammering as she tells Kristy there's a creative writing group starting at the library on Wednesdays. She keeps
Saying she "doesn't have to do it."
And this is when I would just downright quit the club. Mal, you love writing, it is your passion just as Jessi's is ballet, and just like she shouldn't give up her passion, neither should you. Mal even says "it's kind of what I want to do more than anything else in my life" so there you go. I am sure it is more important than babysitting too. Furthermore, Mal hardly gets a break as she parents her siblings most of the time, and she should be entitled to this semblance of enjoyment in her miserable life as a slave to her parents. Not continue to be a slave Kristy and bend to her damn rules. I would just say "I'm doing the class. You can either kick me out of the club, or expect that I am not going to come to Wednesday meetings." Simple as that. As I mentioned before, there is no need for the club to be so formal. They can do what the We Love Kids Club does and meet whenever it's convenient, or have set days but not expect everyone to come--- whoever can come, will come, and if they can't, someone can call them after if a job call came in that they're free for. Simple as that, easy Peasy. Also it really doesn't make sense that this is book #100 and these conflicts are just now coming up. That before they had time for the rigidity of the meetings without their personal lives getting in the way. It isn't realistic. Or things weren't realistic until this book, that is.
I am about to get really mad, just warning you all.
Kristy is all "BUT THATS A MEETING TIME WAAAHHH" and protests when Jessi wants to switch the Wednesday meetings to Tuesday and when Stacey says they can just exempt Mal on Wednesdays. Both perfectly logical suggestions! I will repeat this again, K Ron can say everyone else is making things difficult, but she is the only one who is. If she would just get off her high horse and accept that her friends have personal lives outside of babysitting, none of this would be an issue at all. Kristy is the one creating the problem by being difficult and disagreeable.
Kristy asks if anyone is "disturbed" by the fact that two members are missing. Yes, she said "disturbed." That's a bit of a strong word, Kristy. And I think it's safe to say that the only thing anyone is disturbed by is your behavior.
Oh god, no. Because I am not pissed enough, Abby and Mary Anne walk in and Abby is doing the stupid stuffed nose talk. God, I hate that. Also, she says she had an allergic reaction while she was at the mall with "Bary Add" so why the hell is she at the meeting instead of at a doctor or something?
Instead of asking if her friend who just had an allergic reaction is okay, like a normal person, Kristy snaps at them about not calling. Seriously, Kristy, you know what I just--- I just don't even have the words anymore.
Then we get this beauty of a paragraph.
"I am a reasonable person. Really. Even about latenesses. That is, if a BSC member has a good reason, like an accident or a death or a horrible family crisis..."
Okay. Where to start with this? First of all, Kristy, reasonable? I'll give a cookie to anyone who can name one reasonable thing Kristy has done in this book. No, she is not even close to reasonable about lateness, and I would say having an allergic reaction is a pretty good reason to be late,
so shove it, KRon!
A job call comes in but no one call take it cause they're all busy, and again, I call bullshit that this has never happened before, other than now and in the book where they were short a sitter and Jessi's friend joined. Kristy is fuming about this, even though she is one of the people who is busy.
Kristy snaps back that she'll take the job because she has priorities, unlike the rest of them. KRISTY, THE BABYSITTERS CLUB IS OPTIONAL AND SUPPOSED TO BE FOR FUN. It is not a priority. And most of the members can't go because they're going to Anna's recital, which I would say is pretty important, and definitely a priority for Abby. And if they already told Anna they'd go, that should be a priority.
Everyone starts being assertive to Kristy for once, and it's lovely. Kristy snaps back that it is ridiculous that they are spending the meeting time doing homework and talking about their activities, and why not, Kristy? Why can't they do other regular middle schooler stuff while they wait for calls to come in? What else are they supposed to do, sit like statues? Talk about their charges like a bunch of women at a moms' group? Kristy snaps that no one cares and she should just be "kristy's sitting service." Why because your friends are having fun at the meeting? What in the world does that have to do with babysitting?
Everyone is super offended by her remark (rightfully). She says that clubs are supposed to be fun (really, Kristy? Cause you freak out when anyone has any) but that their clients rely on them to stick to meeting times (maybe) but also to be there when they call, and really, it's not like they can look through the phone and see who's there. As long as someone picks up and a job is scheduled, what difference does it make? Kristy also makes a big deal that she's the only who has an open schedule, which isn't true, she's just the only one willing to give up her commitments because babysitting is the most important thing in the world to her.
She suggests they disband the club. At the first the others are like "bitch be cray" but then they all (except for Mal and Jessi, poor things) start opening up to the idea of more free time and just getting calls at home instead of having to commit to meetings and, as Shannon shrewdly points out, making their clients having to wait until specific times to call instead of doing it on their own time (I'd also like to add that it might be nice to be able to have a babysitter from 5:30-6 on meeting days if they need to, instead of having to schedule their plans around the meetings).
Poor Mal offers to give up the writing course she was so excited about if the club stays together. Everyone else feels relieved and happy. they agree to vote on it, and Kristy almost can't believe that "the center of her life" is about to end. that's right, folks, not her family, not her friends, no, THE BABYSITTERS CLUB is the center of Kristy's life. And obviously Jessi and Mal's, too, because they refuse to raise their hands. Everyone is sad. In all honesty, I think the cult is ridiculous, but if it means that much to them, ending the BSC does not have to be the solution. The solution can be Kristy adjusting her precious rules and making the club more flexible and excusing people from meetings and not being crazy about lateness and stuff. Or just having fewer meetings. But, that would be logical, so it doesn't happen.
Chapter 8
Kristy wakes up the next morning feeling empty, and since she based her entire existence around the cult, I don't blame her.
I must mention that Nannie is feeding Emily her breakfast, when Elizabeth is right there "bustling around the kitchen." Maybe let Nannie do the housework and you feed your own child. Just a thought.
Elizabeth suggests that the BSC disbandment simply be a trial period, a temporary hiatus, which is actually not a bad idea.
The brothers take a bet on how soon Kristy will go back to the prime of her life, and it's rather amusing.
Kristy actually has some rational
Thoughts that without the BSC she will have more time for her family and school with babysitting as a "sideline.
A hobby, not an obsession. I could get to like this."
Shocking logic and I am glad it is finally being mentioned that Kristy is obsessed with babysitting.
Because her ego is larger than Texas, Kristy goes to school anticipating that her friends will beg her to reinstate the club. But, none of them do. It's either the elephant in the room, or they're happy they don't have to be tied down to it anymore. Kristy, because, like I said, her ego, thinks no one is mentioning it because they are so torn apart they have no more tears to shed and no more pain to show. Wow, Kristy. Just wow.
Anyway, she feels a mix of sadness and relief (I am shocked about the latter). Kristy mentions that Abby and Anna will be seeing more of each other now and I find it really unhealthy that the BSC was that much of a commitment that no one had time for their families.
Mallory calls and wants to meet up; she feels empty and wants the feeling of being friends. Poor thing. She and Jessi are concerned about losing the others as friends. Shows how much care the others showed and how much they probably used them for their babysitting skils, huh?
No one else is available so they don't do it and point made. Why can't Kristy and Mallory just hang the two of them?
The ex-club members still hang out together, despite the still existing tensions between Kristy and Abby and Claudia and Mary Anne. Because the Stonybrook parents were unhealthily reliant on the BSC, and totally squirm at the idea of having to watch their own children, they all totally flip shits about the breakup, and take it out on poor Claudia. Seriously, Mrs. Arnold broke down crying, Mrs. Papadakis offers them MONEY to stay together, and Mrs. Wilder wants to provide them with a counseling session. What the fuck,
Parents. Pull yourselves together. It is abnormal to be this wrapped up in the lives of teenagers, and this reliant on them. Plus, the BSC isn't going to stop sitting, they're just not going to be a club anymore, so what the hell is the big deal? I am sorry, but the teenagers in this town really do wear the pants. The "adults" are worthless.
Kristy starts getting adjusted to life without the BSC, and actually, without babysitting, since she refuses to take any jobs that come to her home number, still feeling guilty about Jackie. She is learning about all the joys other than babysitting that life has to offer and doesn't even get sad when it is the time of their former meetings. But then, Claudia frantically calls her and asks her to come over...
Dun, dun, dun.
Stay tuned for next time! This has gotten REALLY long. I hope you enjoyed it. (Excuse the typos, I wrote this on my phone.)
Chapter 5
Kristy is so distracted making a list for the Fall Festival that her teacher’s question “What elements of storytelling does Shirley Jackson in ‘The Lottery’?” sounds like “So, what elephants smelling maximum news and lottery?” Wha-Why?! This doesn’t happen in real life. People don’t sound like that because you’re distracted. You don’t mishear them at that level, you don’t hear them at all.
Kristy is actually able to come up with an answer, but Cokie interrupts her, and honestly, not to play devil’s advocate, but if I were Kristy, that would really piss me off.
Kristy finds out she’s going to get a shitton of work this week and ponders how she will do that and babysit. Kristy-you babysit less and you stop planning elaborate events for the neighborhood children. Or you let them watch TV (*gasp*) and do some homework while they’re watching.
They find out that Stoneybrook is already organizing a fall festival for the town, on the same date as Kristy’s event. The rest of the Cult, seeming relieved, reasonably suggest they just call the whole thing off, but Kristy is relentless and tries to figure out a date to reschedule it, but at least one member already has plans on all the suggested days.
Then everyone starts telling Mary Anne about appointments they have coming up on meeting days, and I want to know how this series has been going on for 100 books already and they are JUST NOW starting to have doctors’ appointments during meeting times. How were they always conveniently able to schedule around them previously? Maybe they just don’t care about the meeting anymore.
Kristy blames this on the schedule change, but all the appointments actually fall on Mondays and Wednesdays, the original meeting days, so this would have happened whether they switched days or not.
Then Kristy says, “We set up appointments and stuff around meeting times. Gladly. Because we knew we had to.” Had to. HAD TO. I’m sorry, is this school? Is this work? No. This is a get-together among friends. It’s really creepy how Kristy believes they “have to” be there. This club is supposed to be for fun, Kristy. I can’t.
Kristy thinks this is unfair to the clients because when they call they expect seven sitters. Stacey very wisely points out that the clients can’t see who’s there, and that’s an excellent point. Babysitting agencies, and even other types of agencies where you may call someone per-diem to work as an aide for the elderly or someone with special needs do not require all of their employees to be in the same room when calls come in. The department heads receive the calls and call the rest of their employees to see who can take the job. There really is no reason for everyone to be there, and like I said before, they should be able to call whenever they want, not at a specified time. Yeah, maybe Claudia will get a lot of calls, but they have everyone’s number, they could just call them individually, and whoever can take it, takes it.
Abby also reasonably says what I was thinking, that Mary Anne can still book an absent member for a job, and that is so true. She has all their schedules on-hand anyway, and she can find out who’s free and then call to confirm. Then Claudia says that the answering machine can just pick up, and they don’t have to have meetings at all. Another great point. Or they can do what Dawn’s California club does and just have meetings whenever they feel like it, whenever it is convenient for everyone.
Claudia then adds that they have to be flexible because they are all busy. Yay for Claudia, Stacey, and Abby in this chapter, in all honesty. They’re all finally making sense and trying to take down K.Ron’s stupid rules.
Kristy storms off, angry that her minions are fighting her rigidity and being logical for once.
Chapter 6
Kristy is babysitting for the Rodowskys.
She is shocked to share that they all caved and had a meeting the afternoon of the Chapter 5 argument. Kristy said she expected a Keep Out sign on Claudia’s door and a voodoo ritual with a Kristy doll. Really kind of disappointed that this didn’t actually happen.
They all APOLOGIZED to her when she walked in. APOLOGIZED. Maybe they haven’t fully changed into normal humans who aim to take down Kristy. They’re getting there, though.
Things were a bit awkward at the meeting because there’s tension between Claudia and Mary Anne and between Kristy and Abby. Jessi and Mal must only stick to one trait only, so their way of being distant to everyone at the meeting is doing a ballet warmup, and hiding behind a book she’s reading, respectively.
Kristy is obviously a bad influence because Jackie is up in a tree so he can hang apples. She tells him to get down but he protests. Finally, he relents. She tells us about the stupid walking disaster thing that really pisses me off because it's so hurtful. If the Rodowsky parents knew about this I bet they would stop using the BSC in an instant. Anyway, Abby calls him "Sidam" as in "Midas" backwards because everything he touches turns into an accident instead of into gold. Meet the best babysitters ever.
Kristy lists some of the incidents Jackie has been Involved in, such as poking himself in the eye with a drinking straw (I have done that more times than I can count) and getting a raisin stuck in his nose (a lot of kids stick things up their noses.)
While Kristy is preoccupied with Archie, Jackie climbs the tree again, this time even higher, with only a mere branch keeping him there.
He falls and can't answer Kristy for a second because of the shock, which is super creepy. He comes to but has injured his ankle. Kristy starts beating herself up for being irresponsible. Normally I don't pass up an opportunity to insult KRon, but I have to play Devils advocate here. Sometimes even the best caretakers are present during an accident. You can turn your back for one second and a kid could have gotten into trouble. It's a scary but true reality. This one is on Jackie. Prior to the incident Kristy had warned him he could get hurt and he didn't listen.
Kristy puts ice on it and waits for the parents to come home. She really should have called them on the emergency number they left at this point, because their child could have a broken bone.
The parents aren't pleased but tell Kristy it's okay. Kristy starts questioning whether or not she was ever a good sitter to begin with and thinks she should stop babysitting. Whoa is this real life?
Chapter 7
BSC meeting. Kristy is pissed because Abby and Mary Anne are late and she "hates lateness." Well suck it up, buttercup, shit happens. You would think you would have figured out by now that everyone is getting sick and tired of your rigidity and you would have starred to chill out a bit. It turns out Jackie sprained his ankle and Kristy still feels like shit.
Poor Mallory, terrified of her dictator Kristy (this is so unhealthy you guys I can't deal), is bright red and stammering as she tells Kristy there's a creative writing group starting at the library on Wednesdays. She keeps
Saying she "doesn't have to do it."
And this is when I would just downright quit the club. Mal, you love writing, it is your passion just as Jessi's is ballet, and just like she shouldn't give up her passion, neither should you. Mal even says "it's kind of what I want to do more than anything else in my life" so there you go. I am sure it is more important than babysitting too. Furthermore, Mal hardly gets a break as she parents her siblings most of the time, and she should be entitled to this semblance of enjoyment in her miserable life as a slave to her parents. Not continue to be a slave Kristy and bend to her damn rules. I would just say "I'm doing the class. You can either kick me out of the club, or expect that I am not going to come to Wednesday meetings." Simple as that. As I mentioned before, there is no need for the club to be so formal. They can do what the We Love Kids Club does and meet whenever it's convenient, or have set days but not expect everyone to come--- whoever can come, will come, and if they can't, someone can call them after if a job call came in that they're free for. Simple as that, easy Peasy. Also it really doesn't make sense that this is book #100 and these conflicts are just now coming up. That before they had time for the rigidity of the meetings without their personal lives getting in the way. It isn't realistic. Or things weren't realistic until this book, that is.
I am about to get really mad, just warning you all.
Kristy is all "BUT THATS A MEETING TIME WAAAHHH" and protests when Jessi wants to switch the Wednesday meetings to Tuesday and when Stacey says they can just exempt Mal on Wednesdays. Both perfectly logical suggestions! I will repeat this again, K Ron can say everyone else is making things difficult, but she is the only one who is. If she would just get off her high horse and accept that her friends have personal lives outside of babysitting, none of this would be an issue at all. Kristy is the one creating the problem by being difficult and disagreeable.
Kristy asks if anyone is "disturbed" by the fact that two members are missing. Yes, she said "disturbed." That's a bit of a strong word, Kristy. And I think it's safe to say that the only thing anyone is disturbed by is your behavior.
Oh god, no. Because I am not pissed enough, Abby and Mary Anne walk in and Abby is doing the stupid stuffed nose talk. God, I hate that. Also, she says she had an allergic reaction while she was at the mall with "Bary Add" so why the hell is she at the meeting instead of at a doctor or something?
Instead of asking if her friend who just had an allergic reaction is okay, like a normal person, Kristy snaps at them about not calling. Seriously, Kristy, you know what I just--- I just don't even have the words anymore.
Then we get this beauty of a paragraph.
"I am a reasonable person. Really. Even about latenesses. That is, if a BSC member has a good reason, like an accident or a death or a horrible family crisis..."
Okay. Where to start with this? First of all, Kristy, reasonable? I'll give a cookie to anyone who can name one reasonable thing Kristy has done in this book. No, she is not even close to reasonable about lateness, and I would say having an allergic reaction is a pretty good reason to be late,
so shove it, KRon!
A job call comes in but no one call take it cause they're all busy, and again, I call bullshit that this has never happened before, other than now and in the book where they were short a sitter and Jessi's friend joined. Kristy is fuming about this, even though she is one of the people who is busy.
Kristy snaps back that she'll take the job because she has priorities, unlike the rest of them. KRISTY, THE BABYSITTERS CLUB IS OPTIONAL AND SUPPOSED TO BE FOR FUN. It is not a priority. And most of the members can't go because they're going to Anna's recital, which I would say is pretty important, and definitely a priority for Abby. And if they already told Anna they'd go, that should be a priority.
Everyone starts being assertive to Kristy for once, and it's lovely. Kristy snaps back that it is ridiculous that they are spending the meeting time doing homework and talking about their activities, and why not, Kristy? Why can't they do other regular middle schooler stuff while they wait for calls to come in? What else are they supposed to do, sit like statues? Talk about their charges like a bunch of women at a moms' group? Kristy snaps that no one cares and she should just be "kristy's sitting service." Why because your friends are having fun at the meeting? What in the world does that have to do with babysitting?
Everyone is super offended by her remark (rightfully). She says that clubs are supposed to be fun (really, Kristy? Cause you freak out when anyone has any) but that their clients rely on them to stick to meeting times (maybe) but also to be there when they call, and really, it's not like they can look through the phone and see who's there. As long as someone picks up and a job is scheduled, what difference does it make? Kristy also makes a big deal that she's the only who has an open schedule, which isn't true, she's just the only one willing to give up her commitments because babysitting is the most important thing in the world to her.
She suggests they disband the club. At the first the others are like "bitch be cray" but then they all (except for Mal and Jessi, poor things) start opening up to the idea of more free time and just getting calls at home instead of having to commit to meetings and, as Shannon shrewdly points out, making their clients having to wait until specific times to call instead of doing it on their own time (I'd also like to add that it might be nice to be able to have a babysitter from 5:30-6 on meeting days if they need to, instead of having to schedule their plans around the meetings).
Poor Mal offers to give up the writing course she was so excited about if the club stays together. Everyone else feels relieved and happy. they agree to vote on it, and Kristy almost can't believe that "the center of her life" is about to end. that's right, folks, not her family, not her friends, no, THE BABYSITTERS CLUB is the center of Kristy's life. And obviously Jessi and Mal's, too, because they refuse to raise their hands. Everyone is sad. In all honesty, I think the cult is ridiculous, but if it means that much to them, ending the BSC does not have to be the solution. The solution can be Kristy adjusting her precious rules and making the club more flexible and excusing people from meetings and not being crazy about lateness and stuff. Or just having fewer meetings. But, that would be logical, so it doesn't happen.
Chapter 8
Kristy wakes up the next morning feeling empty, and since she based her entire existence around the cult, I don't blame her.
I must mention that Nannie is feeding Emily her breakfast, when Elizabeth is right there "bustling around the kitchen." Maybe let Nannie do the housework and you feed your own child. Just a thought.
Elizabeth suggests that the BSC disbandment simply be a trial period, a temporary hiatus, which is actually not a bad idea.
The brothers take a bet on how soon Kristy will go back to the prime of her life, and it's rather amusing.
Kristy actually has some rational
Thoughts that without the BSC she will have more time for her family and school with babysitting as a "sideline.
A hobby, not an obsession. I could get to like this."
Shocking logic and I am glad it is finally being mentioned that Kristy is obsessed with babysitting.
Because her ego is larger than Texas, Kristy goes to school anticipating that her friends will beg her to reinstate the club. But, none of them do. It's either the elephant in the room, or they're happy they don't have to be tied down to it anymore. Kristy, because, like I said, her ego, thinks no one is mentioning it because they are so torn apart they have no more tears to shed and no more pain to show. Wow, Kristy. Just wow.
Anyway, she feels a mix of sadness and relief (I am shocked about the latter). Kristy mentions that Abby and Anna will be seeing more of each other now and I find it really unhealthy that the BSC was that much of a commitment that no one had time for their families.
Mallory calls and wants to meet up; she feels empty and wants the feeling of being friends. Poor thing. She and Jessi are concerned about losing the others as friends. Shows how much care the others showed and how much they probably used them for their babysitting skils, huh?
No one else is available so they don't do it and point made. Why can't Kristy and Mallory just hang the two of them?
The ex-club members still hang out together, despite the still existing tensions between Kristy and Abby and Claudia and Mary Anne. Because the Stonybrook parents were unhealthily reliant on the BSC, and totally squirm at the idea of having to watch their own children, they all totally flip shits about the breakup, and take it out on poor Claudia. Seriously, Mrs. Arnold broke down crying, Mrs. Papadakis offers them MONEY to stay together, and Mrs. Wilder wants to provide them with a counseling session. What the fuck,
Parents. Pull yourselves together. It is abnormal to be this wrapped up in the lives of teenagers, and this reliant on them. Plus, the BSC isn't going to stop sitting, they're just not going to be a club anymore, so what the hell is the big deal? I am sorry, but the teenagers in this town really do wear the pants. The "adults" are worthless.
Kristy starts getting adjusted to life without the BSC, and actually, without babysitting, since she refuses to take any jobs that come to her home number, still feeling guilty about Jackie. She is learning about all the joys other than babysitting that life has to offer and doesn't even get sad when it is the time of their former meetings. But then, Claudia frantically calls her and asks her to come over...
Dun, dun, dun.
Stay tuned for next time! This has gotten REALLY long. I hope you enjoyed it. (Excuse the typos, I wrote this on my phone.)