1. How long was Elly standing there, holding out the rake in a way that would cause intense muscle fatigue within minutes? Think of all the actually productive things she could have done instead of waiting on the off-chance that her daughter attempted to sneak out of the house and pass by. For example, rake the leaves. Or, ask her daughter to do it.
2. Everyone expects you to "cook dinner" (open a can and toss the contents into a pot) because the other people in the house are a full-time dentist who pays all the bills and actual children. I wish I had a dime for every time Elly acted under the conviction that she lived in a group home with four equals who shared everything (except the bills; Elly wanted to believe she contributed without ever doing anything that would allow her to contribute.) For the 4000th time, Elly- this is what you bought into, because this is what you wanted. You are a trophy wife and a mother. John isn't at his office ranting about how he's expected to take care of patients without the help of his wife
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Jesse knew that the way to get away with theft was to play Flatter the Patterson. The moment he started to layer on the "you're special" frosting, Liz went into her usual "I'm amazing" trance and shifted from "I'm angry" to "tell me more about how amazing I am" and decided to keep Jesse's affection in the ON position by leaving him with the stolen item. Any sensible person hears this story and tells Liz "you got conned, stupid. He played you."
Because the conversation took place in private- in Jesse's bedroom- the parents probably don't even know that Liz left a valuable family possession with their underaged son "to remember her by." Jesse played Liz for the easily-manipulated sucker she is and probably ended up trading the harmonica for a dime bag.
Elizabeth must not have cared much about the harmonica if she didn't realize that someone (who turned out to be Jesse) had stolen it until she went back to Mtigwaki and Jesse's aunt mentioned "the harmonica you gave him." She didn't notice that Jim's harmonica was missing when she unpacked her belongings when she moved back into her parents' house.
What gets me is the rank hypocrisy of Elly blaming television and Becky for April having a sarcastic answer for everything. She doesn't understand the phrase "Monket see
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There was this big performative thing in the seventies that blamed television for the end result of shitty parenting. Elly was part of it. She was Queen Of Big Deal Mountain and was going to protect her children from the corrupting influence of the box.
If only someone could have protected them from her........
I've been thinking about Christmas, because the stores have already started putting out their Christmas merchandise. Two of my favorite Christmas books are Edward Wagenknecht's The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories and its companion volume, A Fireside Book of Yuletide Tales. The last story in The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories is Bill Adams's "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen." In that story, Bill Adams complained, "There was too much haste, too much noise, in this modern world where all was so changed." One of the inventions he complained about was "this thing upon which Dumpling [his thirteen-year-old daughter's nickname] had her finger, this thing I loathed." He lamented that "there was no escape from it." He said that "It was the very essence of all that was banal in modernity." The time was 1938, and that invention was the radio. Bill Adams was reconciled to the radio when his family started singing along with the Christmas carols on the radio, and he thought of the door-to-door carol singers when he was a child. He told
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1. How long was Elly standing there, holding out the rake in a way that would cause intense muscle fatigue within minutes? Think of all the actually productive things she could have done instead of waiting on the off-chance that her daughter attempted to sneak out of the house and pass by. For example, rake the leaves. Or, ask her daughter to do it.
2. Everyone expects you to "cook dinner" (open a can and toss the contents into a pot) because the other people in the house are a full-time dentist who pays all the bills and actual children. I wish I had a dime for every time Elly acted under the conviction that she lived in a group home with four equals who shared everything (except the bills; Elly wanted to believe she contributed without ever doing anything that would allow her to contribute.) For the 4000th time, Elly- this is what you bought into, because this is what you wanted. You are a trophy wife and a mother. John isn't at his office ranting about how he's expected to take care of patients without the help of his wife ( ... )
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It never occurs to the stupid cow that he could have been lying to save his ass and never will.
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Jesse knew that the way to get away with theft was to play Flatter the Patterson. The moment he started to layer on the "you're special" frosting, Liz went into her usual "I'm amazing" trance and shifted from "I'm angry" to "tell me more about how amazing I am" and decided to keep Jesse's affection in the ON position by leaving him with the stolen item. Any sensible person hears this story and tells Liz "you got conned, stupid. He played you."
Because the conversation took place in private- in Jesse's bedroom- the parents probably don't even know that Liz left a valuable family possession with their underaged son "to remember her by." Jesse played Liz for the easily-manipulated sucker she is and probably ended up trading the harmonica for a dime bag.
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Which doesn't matter to her because she's warm in the secret spots.
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Elizabeth must not have cared much about the harmonica if she didn't realize that someone (who turned out to be Jesse) had stolen it until she went back to Mtigwaki and Jesse's aunt mentioned "the harmonica you gave him." She didn't notice that Jim's harmonica was missing when she unpacked her belongings when she moved back into her parents' house.
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This used to be why I had her refer to it us Uncle Jasper's harmonium: it never did and never will.
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Moira is actually nice to April, think that has anything to do with it?
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I'm still convinced Lynn has an anti-TV bias because Peanuts and Garfield, etc. were more popular on TV than her stuff is.
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There was this big performative thing in the seventies that blamed television for the end result of shitty parenting. Elly was part of it. She was Queen Of Big Deal Mountain and was going to protect her children from the corrupting influence of the box.
If only someone could have protected them from her........
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TV has been blamed for shitty parenting since the 50's. Before that it was movies. Before that it was books. Now it's anything online.
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I've been thinking about Christmas, because the stores have already started putting out their Christmas merchandise. Two of my favorite Christmas books are Edward Wagenknecht's The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories and its companion volume, A Fireside Book of Yuletide Tales. The last story in The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories is Bill Adams's "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen." In that story, Bill Adams complained, "There was too much haste, too much noise, in this modern world where all was so changed." One of the inventions he complained about was "this thing upon which Dumpling [his thirteen-year-old daughter's nickname] had her finger, this thing I loathed." He lamented that "there was no escape from it." He said that "It was the very essence of all that was banal in modernity." The time was 1938, and that invention was the radio. Bill Adams was reconciled to the radio when his family started singing along with the Christmas carols on the radio, and he thought of the door-to-door carol singers when he was a child. He told ( ... )
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The idea appears to be children are entitled to their parents' childhoods.
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Dumpling. Vomit.
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Old fart from ninety years ago. Practically a motherfucking space alien.
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