Jessi Ramsey! Pet-sitter! Part 1!

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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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"You didn't ask the Mancusis if they're okay with this. You're just assuming that since Jessi is there it's okay. I would be pretty pissed if I hired a pet sitter and found out they were letting a bunch of kids in my house so my pet could entertain them."
- Totally agree, but at the same time, anyone who would hire an eleven-year-old to take care of fifty-something pets might deserve to be shown why children don't make reliable hired help (not that I would want any of the animals to suffer). And, if I was a parent, I'd be horrified that my baby-sitter took my kid(s) to a stranger's house, full of strange animals, even (especially?) if the owners were on vacation and another kid was in charge.

Kristy really annoyed me in this one; her impatience with Claudia over the snacks, acting like she typically gives 'permission' for her friends to accept each job, yelling at her friends - if I was fortunate enough to have a kid and one of his/her 'friends' was yelling at her and the reason my kid was truly afraid to be late to club meetings, said 'friend' would be out of my house and out of my kid's life so fast they'd still have motion sickness a week later. It's hard to believe that none of the club members' parents pick up on this, especially Jessi's father, who has to rush Jessi from one town to another because she's afraid of one of her friends. And the whole scene with the checklist really bothers me, too.

Someone should have pointed out that they read the notebook because it's helpful (so they all say), and not because they're afraid of the look a four-feet-tall girl will give them if they say they haven't.

I think the closest things we get to club members standing up for themselves is with Stacey in Book #83, when she tells the club that she's sick of spending all her youth wiping noses and organizing talent shows, and then in another book (#100, maybe?) she tells Kristy that her father got tickets to a fancy play for Friday and when Kristy asks if Stacey's father can exchange the tickets (?!) so Stacey won't miss a meeting, Stacey just informs her that she won't be at the meeting, not really caring whether Kristy approves. I think we were meant to be on Kristy's/the club's side during Stacey's best moments, but I sure wasn't :p