Jessi Ramsey! Pet-sitter! Part 1!
I'm still soaring on a natural high of Tumblr and a fucked up sleeping schedule, so I decided to work on another snark. After reading what a total twat Jessi was in my last snark, I wanted something where she's a normal person and K Ron is the unapologetic asshole. And good God, is she! I really don't know why anyone puts up with her for over a
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And having read this book before, I know she doesn't learn her lesson.--True. Same goes for the books after the one when the cult breaks up.
What the fuck is wrong with Ann that nobody learns from their mistakes?!--It's disturbing. I don't want to read about perfect people...I like reading about people that have flaws and make mistakes, they learn from their mistakes. It's just a theme that runs throughout Ann's books. "Here's a lesson from some fuck up I did. Eh, forget about it. I don't really care to learn those lessons from the mistakes I make. Guess everybody else better get used to it."
After club exposition, K Ron has a rod up her ass because she gets impatient when Claudia offers snacks.--No manners at all. Claudia's VERY generous with her snacks. This is something she really doesn't have to do. For somebody to throw a fit because she's passing out snacks, it's just stupid. How much noise and distraction can it be for her to pass around bags of chips, candy, cookies, etc?
Mrs Mancusi saying she needs a pet sitter because hers canceled on her right before she and her husband planned a dream vacation--I get so pissed at this book. It's a different kind of anger than the Norman Hill book. It bothers me that the cult treats this family's house like it's a damn zoo. There's so many things that can go wrong. An animal can get out, an animal can bite or scratch somebody, I sincerely doubt the Mancusis knew that the whole fucking town was coming into their house. They probably expected Jessi and ONLY Jessi.
So, stop acting like a bitch because you couldn't handle some dogs.--And the thing that kills me is the dogs didn't do anything bad from what I can remember. Shit, I think Kristy had things so under control that she was sitting and watching tv while dog sitting. It's not as if the dogs are pissing and shitting everywhere, wanting to kill each other, wanting to attack the girl they've never seen before, etc.
Jessi feels like a fool--Weird. I talk to my cats all the time.
They show her the hamsters and the guinea pigs who are named Lucy and Ricky because Ann thinks the world only produced one tv show before calling it quits--lmfao!
Claudia suggests they go to the Mancusis to look at their animals.--Not cool with this at all. And I honestly sympathize with Jessi. The others shouldn't put her in a situation for her to have to say "Look, I'm not okay with this. One of the pets could get out, somebody could get hurt, one of the animals could get hurt, etc. I want to be the only one in this house. I don't want to treat the house like it's a zoo."
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Claudia laments only having one paragraph to go in her Nancy Drew book.--Fuck it. Finish the paragraph, Claudia.
and K Ron roars order at them--I really wonder who's at home right now. If Kristy's that fucking loud, it makes me wonder why one of the adults or Janine don't stick their head in and ask about this behavior. If I had a kid and her friend roars anything at them, heads are gonna roll. You don't treat a friend like that.
Yeah, that's no excuse to treat your friends like shit.--Agreed. I've already said before how much it disturbs me to see such shitty friendships in these books and the writers slap a smiley face sticker across this shit. Don't normalize this shit. Don't make it seem like it's okay. Don't make it seem like her attitude needs to be this way because she needs to be the leader and keep everybody else in line.
She says she's gonna make a checklist for them to mark to show her they're reading the notebook. --Kristy's so fucking stupid. You can always put a checkmark next to your name even if you don't read the notebook. I'm still surprised she didn't have weekly pop quizzes over the notebook.
The olda girls start speaking up that they're unhappy with their offices and Jessi wonders why K Ron isn't.--I still think it's bullshit that the girls voted themselves back into their same positions.
Enjoyed the snark! :)
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Yeah, the BSC bringing kids to the Mancusis is just irresponsible. Not only because something could go wrong, but it's a pretty damned big invasion of privacy. They hired Jessi to watch their pets, not turn their house into a Goddamned zoo.
I was raised with pets and have always talked to them. Even my gramma who hates animals talks to the family dog. She's even joined my talking to Cabby. Yeah, she insults him but she still talks to him.
I can imagine like Mary Anne or someone talking about their club meeting and their parent going 'Excuse me, wtf?' Because even if they were saying it casually like 'Oh, Kristy acted so bossy today at the meeting blah blah blah' you think it'd raise some red flags. Because I know if my kid was talking about their friend yelling at them, I would be on the phone to their parents in a second telling them to control their child. But of course, Parents in the 'brook are useless and Kristy's bullying goes unchecked.
I hated how they voted too. I mean, the least they could have done was make Claudia president as she does way more for the club than Kristy ever has. It's funny, because even as a kid I was like, 'This is such bullshit' yet I kept reading the books. Like, I knew they were garbage books with shitty writing and terrible characters but they were entertaining. Like, baby's first guilty pleasure. I feel the same way now about The Walking Dead
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Claudia would have been a good president. I wish Claudia realized at some point how much power she actually had. The club headquarters was her bedroom. She also provided snacks and handled any call that came in when they weren't meeting. She could have at any point thrown Kristy out. Refused to let her bedroom be used.
I wish the voting had gone differently, even for just a few books. It would have been fun to see the girls doing different jobs, each taking a turn at being president, secretary and treasurer. It would have been fun to see Claudia president for book, Mary Anne for another one, Mal president, Jessi and Stacey. Maybe not Dawn because she'd be forcing them all to eat health food.
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Reminds me of Susan. :(
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