Kristy's Worst Idea- part 3
Hey guys, sorry this part isn't the greatest, it wasn't as snark-worthy as the earlier sections, but I am sure the next and final part will have a lot of juice! Thank you all for your continued support and comments!
Chapter 9
Claudias crisis involves homework. We see an example of what she has written and it is clear she is not even putting in an ounce of effort. Look, I have a learning disability and school was always impossible for me (Ann can sag claudia doesn't have a disability all she wants, but I still think she does), but I at least TRIED. Claudia isn't even trying here. She just writes things like "(oxygen) somehow gets into your lungs." Janine is patiently helping Claudia while speaking like a thesaurus. Claudia calls Kristy to come help her. KRISTY thinks it's an emergency and races to find a ride and of course Charlie is the only one available, and also I must add that Nannie is not available because she is taking Emily to the doctor. Why can't Emily's parents ever do anything for her, ever? Just let Nannie adopt her, seriously. Charlie calls his chauffeuring Kristy slave labor and im glad someone has noticed that.
Claudia tells Kristy she is "DED dead" (her words not mine), and the phone rings because the sobaks need a sitter and Mr. S forgot the BSC broke up. They ask specifically for Mary Anne and Claudia helpfully tells them to look up her number in the phone book but spells her name "SPEER." Then mrs. Hobart calls, merely to complain about the BSC breaking up because thou shall never watch their own children in Stoneybrook. Seriously, I am starting to see why Claudia can't understand her work. Her phone rings non-stop!
Alan Gray prank calls them and they get back to studying.
Claudia asks Kristy if she misses the club. They are nostalgic for a bit but then remember the negative parts, like, as Claudia points out, Kristy blowing up, which she adamantly denies because she can't ever take credit for the shitty things she does. Then Mr. Sobak calls back because Claudia didn't bother calling back to say she fucked to the spelling of Mary Anne's last name.
Chapter 10
Kristy bikes past a field where Abby is playing soccer with a bunch of kids. Kristy internally snarks the way Abby teaches them because everything is disorganized and everyone is joking around. She thinks, "that's what separates Abby from me... Dedication and discipline." Fuck you, Kristy. Not everything has to be organized and professional. If I am a little kid being taught soccer I would rather have it be laid-back with my coach laughing and joking with me instead of a dictator making everything have to run a certain way. It's not a professional sports team, it is just a bunch of kids playing a casual soccer game. She decides to join them because "the kids needed real guidance." For the love of God.
Abby is amazing and sarcastically says "time to get serious! It's World Cup Kristy!" Hehe I love it when they insult Kristy. They divide the kids into two teams, one ran by dictator Kristy and one ran by Abby.
Abby jokes around and has fun with the kids while Kristy ruins it by taking everything way too seriously. Abby doesn't have it and is assertive back to Kristy. And Abby's team wins! See, you don't have to be all organized and serious to win.
As they are leaving, Hannie very cutely says that because her dad builds houses, he can rebuild their BSC clubhouse for them, assuming that that's why they broke up. Hannie asks why they broke up if it wasn't because of a lack of meeting place, and Linny says they don't like each other. His observation makes sense considering the way Kristy and Abby were fighting during the game, but Kristy internalizes that he only thinks this because "Abby had been really competitive- too competitive." Okay, here is more proof that Lerangis is TRYING to get us to hate Kristy as a dig at Ann for not knowing how to make likable characters. It's so frustrating that she thinks Abby is entirely to blame when she was the one who came charging in, interrupting their fun game to be her usual Kristy self, while making digs at Abby for the way she runs a game.
All the kids start asking Kristy to still sit for them, and as they bike home Abby says she never gets jobs anymore because since she only recently moved there a lot of the parents don't know her or don't think to call her and she has much more free time to do wonderful things such as watch the leaves turn.
Sounds like someone misses the BSC... Don't do it Abby, don't... Too late. She starts begging Kristy to bring the Cult back. ABBY I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THAT. YOU WERE THE ONE I HAD THE MOST FAITH IN BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING THE KOOL-AID THE SHORTEST.
Kristy considers bringing it back for a second but decides Abby is joking. I wish she was.
Mrs. Pike is over at Kristy's and tells her Mallory is sitting around the house doing work for her reading group and refusing to go outside. She says she "doesn't know what has gotten into her." Do you know your kid at all? She's into writing! This is her passion. This is what she is happy doing. Shove it, Mrs. Pike! Kristy asks if she misses the BSC because her ego must be inflated at all times, and Mama P says she doesn't talk about it much, which greatly upsets Kristy, because her friend doing well and not being upset is just not going to work for her, proving once again how much Mallory actually meant to the older BSC members.
Kristy wishes her friends were still upset because then they can fuel her conceited ass by begging her to start the cult again. She admits she'd say no if they did, so why do you want them to? Let everyone just be happy then.
(it could also be that everyone IS upset, but they don't want to ask because maybe they think they are the only ones. Mallory may even be distracting herself so much so she doesn't have to think about the BSC, because we all know she and Jessi love it.) she worries that the fact that no one has asked her to bring the club back (even though Abby did) is because the BSC was easy to forget and her great idea maybe wasn't so great to begin with, hence our book title! And you're right, Kristy, it really wasn't that great an idea. As I said before, babysitting agencies have been going on for years, and they're ran much more efficiently than the BSC.
Chapter 11
Kristy overhears a girl named Erica telling her friend Lily about her sitting job with baby Lucy Newton. She is sharing how Lucy was crying and crying and she couldn't figure out what was wrong and eventually realized she had a wet diaper. Kristy internally snarks her but honestly Erica kind of sounds like a normal 13 year old to me. It's why you don't leave someone that young in charge of a baby. Most teenagers don't know much about babies, so I am not going to fault Erica here, just Mrs. Newton for leaving her baby with someone that young. But then again, maybe she assumed Erica is abnormal like the BSC and is unhealthily obsessed with children and knows an abnormal amount about babies.
Kristy is angry that their loyal clients the Newtons dare call anyone else to babysit and that Erica made "a whole dollar more" than the BSC usually charged. Well, I guess Erica charges more.
Lily agrees that it's hard to tell when a diaper is wet and Kristy interrupts them to tell them how you can tell a diaper is wet. Honestly, this isn't impressive, this is just weird. As I said, most thirteen-year-olds do not
Know this much about babies. I
Mean, Kristy sounds like the mother of an infant here! And she's making them sound like idiots when they're just normal teenagers. They look at Kristy like she's crazy, lol, as they should be.
Lily points out that if Kristy knows all this because of the BSC, the rest of them will have a chance to learn now that the BSC has broken up. Erica even mentions that Mrs. Newton only called her because non of the ex-BSC members answered the phone. That's a little rude that Mrs. Newton would tell Erica that.
Lily says the BSC was kind of a monopoly and no one else could get jobs. I am so glad someone is finally bringing all of this up! Kristy acts surprised that no one else did any babysitting, but Kristy,
YOU FLIPPED OUT if any one who was a non-BSC member did any babysitting in Stoneybrook and insulted their babysitting skills, so how are you surprised?!
This is a reality check to Kristy as she is just starting to realize that it may have been fun for her, but the BSC was damaging to other people who want to sit. She even calls them "The Baby-Sitting Hogs" which is gold. This really is the book of reality checks and pointing out lots of plot holes and annoyances from previous books, and I am loving it.
Kristy the Crazy may have had reality checks but she is still crazy. She tells Stacey that they should start an advice service and teach rookies all about babysitting. Stacey and I hope she is joking, but bitch is serious.
Luckily, no one else in the cult falls for it.
Kristy takes Linny (anyone else think that's a really weird name?) and Hannie for, in her words, "a real soccer practice." Enough with that, Kristy. Seriously.
Lol the Hsus come over wanting to play but Cokie Mason is babysitting them. What a great blow to Kristy, seriously. Kristy is so shocked that anyone she hates could DARE to be around her precious neighborhood children. Cokie screams at Scott
To come back and Kristy tells us that Cokie is obnoxious and the last person she would imagine as a babysitter. Well, you're obnoxious too, Kristy. And lately you've been telling yourself you're not a great sitter either because of the incident with Jackie so you can kindly get off your high horse and stop insulting people.
Cokie wants Scott to go with her so she can go shopping, and okay, this is wrong of her, she should not be doing personal errands while she's working. Plus how is that any fun for the poor kids? Kristy offers to have the kids stay with her, but Cokie says she's their sitter and trots off, and Cokie is right about that, the parents need to know who their kids are with, and if they left them with Cokie, it would be really bad if they stayed with Kristy.
Kristy calls Mrs. Hsu later that night and has the audacity to make a snide comment to her about how the former Cult members are all available on their home numbers so why did you call someone else, bitch. It ain't legal to call someone who isn't one of us cult members, don't you know? And Kristy, didn't you just feel bad two seconds ago about the fact that your cult was taking jobs from others? I guess that reality check didn't last. Mrs. Hsu, who is a saint for not hanging up on Kristy after telling her she doesn't run the town and she can ask anyone who wants to sit for her children, because they're her children and she makes the decisions, not Kristy,
which is what I would have done), tells Kristy she's friends with cokie's mom and had told her she would call Cokie to babysit.
Before hanging to, Kristy reminds Mrs. Hsu to still call the former cult, and again, she's a saint, because she says she will instead of calling her a psycho like I would have. Kristy actually screams bloody murder when she hangs up. That's a sane person right there.
Chapter 12
The chapter opens with a lovely "private" journal entry from Stacey where she describes how she can't hold it in anymore and she's going cray cray about the breakup of the BSC. Apparently she showed this Private journal entry to Kristy, so she's finally getting her wish that someone will beg her to reopen the club. Damn you for inflating Kristy's ego, Stacey. Also, I never knew Stacey had a private journal.
Anyway, Stacey and Claudia were shopping when they ran into the Newtons at the food court.
Stacey approaches them, and Jamie is cold to her and runs away. Stacey chases after him because Mrs. Newton is useless, but Jamie is still angry and runs away.
Turns out Jamie's attitude is due to the fact that he believes the BSC hates him because Erica has come to babysit a lot. I don't know,
I can't really snark this, Jamie is little and just doesn't get it.
When Stacey comes home, her mom says she needs to call mrs. Prezzioso right away because she needs a sitter. Mrs. P is unreasonably rude on the phone and says she was on the phone all day looking for a sitter but then she reached Mary Anne and everything was easier when they were a club. this really doesn't make sense though. This was a Saturday, if the club was still a club, she wouldn't have been able to call them that day anyway if she discovered she needed a sitter because they don't meet on Saturdays. Which brings me to another point: the BSC is fine if you're calling in advance for a sitter, but what if an emergency comes out and you discover you need a sitter that very day and it's not a meeting day? Then you're still on the phone all day calling for a sitter.
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Well that's all for now! Hope you liked!
Chapter 9
Claudias crisis involves homework. We see an example of what she has written and it is clear she is not even putting in an ounce of effort. Look, I have a learning disability and school was always impossible for me (Ann can sag claudia doesn't have a disability all she wants, but I still think she does), but I at least TRIED. Claudia isn't even trying here. She just writes things like "(oxygen) somehow gets into your lungs." Janine is patiently helping Claudia while speaking like a thesaurus. Claudia calls Kristy to come help her. KRISTY thinks it's an emergency and races to find a ride and of course Charlie is the only one available, and also I must add that Nannie is not available because she is taking Emily to the doctor. Why can't Emily's parents ever do anything for her, ever? Just let Nannie adopt her, seriously. Charlie calls his chauffeuring Kristy slave labor and im glad someone has noticed that.
Claudia tells Kristy she is "DED dead" (her words not mine), and the phone rings because the sobaks need a sitter and Mr. S forgot the BSC broke up. They ask specifically for Mary Anne and Claudia helpfully tells them to look up her number in the phone book but spells her name "SPEER." Then mrs. Hobart calls, merely to complain about the BSC breaking up because thou shall never watch their own children in Stoneybrook. Seriously, I am starting to see why Claudia can't understand her work. Her phone rings non-stop!
Alan Gray prank calls them and they get back to studying.
Claudia asks Kristy if she misses the club. They are nostalgic for a bit but then remember the negative parts, like, as Claudia points out, Kristy blowing up, which she adamantly denies because she can't ever take credit for the shitty things she does. Then Mr. Sobak calls back because Claudia didn't bother calling back to say she fucked to the spelling of Mary Anne's last name.
Chapter 10
Kristy bikes past a field where Abby is playing soccer with a bunch of kids. Kristy internally snarks the way Abby teaches them because everything is disorganized and everyone is joking around. She thinks, "that's what separates Abby from me... Dedication and discipline." Fuck you, Kristy. Not everything has to be organized and professional. If I am a little kid being taught soccer I would rather have it be laid-back with my coach laughing and joking with me instead of a dictator making everything have to run a certain way. It's not a professional sports team, it is just a bunch of kids playing a casual soccer game. She decides to join them because "the kids needed real guidance." For the love of God.
Abby is amazing and sarcastically says "time to get serious! It's World Cup Kristy!" Hehe I love it when they insult Kristy. They divide the kids into two teams, one ran by dictator Kristy and one ran by Abby.
Abby jokes around and has fun with the kids while Kristy ruins it by taking everything way too seriously. Abby doesn't have it and is assertive back to Kristy. And Abby's team wins! See, you don't have to be all organized and serious to win.
As they are leaving, Hannie very cutely says that because her dad builds houses, he can rebuild their BSC clubhouse for them, assuming that that's why they broke up. Hannie asks why they broke up if it wasn't because of a lack of meeting place, and Linny says they don't like each other. His observation makes sense considering the way Kristy and Abby were fighting during the game, but Kristy internalizes that he only thinks this because "Abby had been really competitive- too competitive." Okay, here is more proof that Lerangis is TRYING to get us to hate Kristy as a dig at Ann for not knowing how to make likable characters. It's so frustrating that she thinks Abby is entirely to blame when she was the one who came charging in, interrupting their fun game to be her usual Kristy self, while making digs at Abby for the way she runs a game.
All the kids start asking Kristy to still sit for them, and as they bike home Abby says she never gets jobs anymore because since she only recently moved there a lot of the parents don't know her or don't think to call her and she has much more free time to do wonderful things such as watch the leaves turn.
Sounds like someone misses the BSC... Don't do it Abby, don't... Too late. She starts begging Kristy to bring the Cult back. ABBY I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THAT. YOU WERE THE ONE I HAD THE MOST FAITH IN BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING THE KOOL-AID THE SHORTEST.
Kristy considers bringing it back for a second but decides Abby is joking. I wish she was.
Mrs. Pike is over at Kristy's and tells her Mallory is sitting around the house doing work for her reading group and refusing to go outside. She says she "doesn't know what has gotten into her." Do you know your kid at all? She's into writing! This is her passion. This is what she is happy doing. Shove it, Mrs. Pike! Kristy asks if she misses the BSC because her ego must be inflated at all times, and Mama P says she doesn't talk about it much, which greatly upsets Kristy, because her friend doing well and not being upset is just not going to work for her, proving once again how much Mallory actually meant to the older BSC members.
Kristy wishes her friends were still upset because then they can fuel her conceited ass by begging her to start the cult again. She admits she'd say no if they did, so why do you want them to? Let everyone just be happy then.
(it could also be that everyone IS upset, but they don't want to ask because maybe they think they are the only ones. Mallory may even be distracting herself so much so she doesn't have to think about the BSC, because we all know she and Jessi love it.) she worries that the fact that no one has asked her to bring the club back (even though Abby did) is because the BSC was easy to forget and her great idea maybe wasn't so great to begin with, hence our book title! And you're right, Kristy, it really wasn't that great an idea. As I said before, babysitting agencies have been going on for years, and they're ran much more efficiently than the BSC.
Chapter 11
Kristy overhears a girl named Erica telling her friend Lily about her sitting job with baby Lucy Newton. She is sharing how Lucy was crying and crying and she couldn't figure out what was wrong and eventually realized she had a wet diaper. Kristy internally snarks her but honestly Erica kind of sounds like a normal 13 year old to me. It's why you don't leave someone that young in charge of a baby. Most teenagers don't know much about babies, so I am not going to fault Erica here, just Mrs. Newton for leaving her baby with someone that young. But then again, maybe she assumed Erica is abnormal like the BSC and is unhealthily obsessed with children and knows an abnormal amount about babies.
Kristy is angry that their loyal clients the Newtons dare call anyone else to babysit and that Erica made "a whole dollar more" than the BSC usually charged. Well, I guess Erica charges more.
Lily agrees that it's hard to tell when a diaper is wet and Kristy interrupts them to tell them how you can tell a diaper is wet. Honestly, this isn't impressive, this is just weird. As I said, most thirteen-year-olds do not
Know this much about babies. I
Mean, Kristy sounds like the mother of an infant here! And she's making them sound like idiots when they're just normal teenagers. They look at Kristy like she's crazy, lol, as they should be.
Lily points out that if Kristy knows all this because of the BSC, the rest of them will have a chance to learn now that the BSC has broken up. Erica even mentions that Mrs. Newton only called her because non of the ex-BSC members answered the phone. That's a little rude that Mrs. Newton would tell Erica that.
Lily says the BSC was kind of a monopoly and no one else could get jobs. I am so glad someone is finally bringing all of this up! Kristy acts surprised that no one else did any babysitting, but Kristy,
YOU FLIPPED OUT if any one who was a non-BSC member did any babysitting in Stoneybrook and insulted their babysitting skills, so how are you surprised?!
This is a reality check to Kristy as she is just starting to realize that it may have been fun for her, but the BSC was damaging to other people who want to sit. She even calls them "The Baby-Sitting Hogs" which is gold. This really is the book of reality checks and pointing out lots of plot holes and annoyances from previous books, and I am loving it.
Kristy the Crazy may have had reality checks but she is still crazy. She tells Stacey that they should start an advice service and teach rookies all about babysitting. Stacey and I hope she is joking, but bitch is serious.
Luckily, no one else in the cult falls for it.
Kristy takes Linny (anyone else think that's a really weird name?) and Hannie for, in her words, "a real soccer practice." Enough with that, Kristy. Seriously.
Lol the Hsus come over wanting to play but Cokie Mason is babysitting them. What a great blow to Kristy, seriously. Kristy is so shocked that anyone she hates could DARE to be around her precious neighborhood children. Cokie screams at Scott
To come back and Kristy tells us that Cokie is obnoxious and the last person she would imagine as a babysitter. Well, you're obnoxious too, Kristy. And lately you've been telling yourself you're not a great sitter either because of the incident with Jackie so you can kindly get off your high horse and stop insulting people.
Cokie wants Scott to go with her so she can go shopping, and okay, this is wrong of her, she should not be doing personal errands while she's working. Plus how is that any fun for the poor kids? Kristy offers to have the kids stay with her, but Cokie says she's their sitter and trots off, and Cokie is right about that, the parents need to know who their kids are with, and if they left them with Cokie, it would be really bad if they stayed with Kristy.
Kristy calls Mrs. Hsu later that night and has the audacity to make a snide comment to her about how the former Cult members are all available on their home numbers so why did you call someone else, bitch. It ain't legal to call someone who isn't one of us cult members, don't you know? And Kristy, didn't you just feel bad two seconds ago about the fact that your cult was taking jobs from others? I guess that reality check didn't last. Mrs. Hsu, who is a saint for not hanging up on Kristy after telling her she doesn't run the town and she can ask anyone who wants to sit for her children, because they're her children and she makes the decisions, not Kristy,
which is what I would have done), tells Kristy she's friends with cokie's mom and had told her she would call Cokie to babysit.
Before hanging to, Kristy reminds Mrs. Hsu to still call the former cult, and again, she's a saint, because she says she will instead of calling her a psycho like I would have. Kristy actually screams bloody murder when she hangs up. That's a sane person right there.
Chapter 12
The chapter opens with a lovely "private" journal entry from Stacey where she describes how she can't hold it in anymore and she's going cray cray about the breakup of the BSC. Apparently she showed this Private journal entry to Kristy, so she's finally getting her wish that someone will beg her to reopen the club. Damn you for inflating Kristy's ego, Stacey. Also, I never knew Stacey had a private journal.
Anyway, Stacey and Claudia were shopping when they ran into the Newtons at the food court.
Stacey approaches them, and Jamie is cold to her and runs away. Stacey chases after him because Mrs. Newton is useless, but Jamie is still angry and runs away.
Turns out Jamie's attitude is due to the fact that he believes the BSC hates him because Erica has come to babysit a lot. I don't know,
I can't really snark this, Jamie is little and just doesn't get it.
When Stacey comes home, her mom says she needs to call mrs. Prezzioso right away because she needs a sitter. Mrs. P is unreasonably rude on the phone and says she was on the phone all day looking for a sitter but then she reached Mary Anne and everything was easier when they were a club. this really doesn't make sense though. This was a Saturday, if the club was still a club, she wouldn't have been able to call them that day anyway if she discovered she needed a sitter because they don't meet on Saturdays. Which brings me to another point: the BSC is fine if you're calling in advance for a sitter, but what if an emergency comes out and you discover you need a sitter that very day and it's not a meeting day? Then you're still on the phone all day calling for a sitter.
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Well that's all for now! Hope you liked!