Comments | bsc_snark: We'll Always Have NYC or #51, Stacey's Ex-Best Friend

iamtheliquorr in bsc_snark

We'll Always Have NYC or #51, Stacey's Ex-Best Friend

Jul 02, 2009 14:41

Longtime lurker, first-time poster here. I've been wanting to recap a BSC for a while, and I hit the motherload at a recent used book sale. Stacey as always my fave, so I just had to pop my recap cherry on a Stacey book! I chose #51, "Stacey's Ex-Best Friend." I know it's been recapped here before (and 'twas an excellent recap, too), but it's ( Read more... )

#51 stacey's ex-best friend, creepy involvement with kids, drama, stacey, snarker: iamtheliquorr

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kilobites July 3 2009, 00:49:49 UTC

Great snark! I was just rereading this one so I was glad to see it here again.

The break thing kinda makes sense to me... when I was in middle school we always had winter break over Christmas, midwinter break in February, and then spring break in April. But it strikes me as strange that she would call it winter break, since that usually is the holiday season. Coulda called it midwinter break and saved the confusion.

iamtheliquorr July 3 2009, 00:51:58 UTC

Thanks!

Really? Wow, I did not know that. I wish I'd gone to a school with that many breaks, lol.

kilobites July 3 2009, 00:53:09 UTC

Haha, yeah, I think it might just be in certain school districts. We would get a week in February as well as a week in April. But we got out crazy late.

lizf15 July 3 2009, 01:09:39 UTC

Yes. That's how it is in schools in the East...as far as I know.

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orimornie July 3 2009, 01:03:05 UTC

In NY they have a "president's week" break in February. Rather than having several days off for president's birthdays, they just give you a week. But only in NY *sigh* lol

jessicarae729 July 3 2009, 02:09:18 UTC

Yep, I lived in NY during grades K-4 and we always had 2 weeks off at Christmas, 1 week off in February, 1 week off in April. I was not impressed when we moved to MI between grades 4 and 5 and there was no mid-winter break. Just one random "breather day" in the end of February.

tygre July 3 2009, 12:20:21 UTC

Heh, yeah, but then you go until the end of June. My kids got out last week.

I grew up in the midwest and we started the 3rd week of August and were out by Memorial Day.

jessicarae729 July 3 2009, 13:04:31 UTC

Well, there is that too. When we first moved to MI, school started the last full week of August or something like that, and ended around June 6 or so. Now in the whole state school starts the day after Labor Day and ends around June 13 or so, which is closer to what it was like in NY, but still getting out a week earlier, probably because there's still no "mid winter break" in MI.

It really doesn't much matter to me now that I'm not in school or teaching, but when I was, that January-April stretch seemed reeeeeally long. Especially after years of college where spring break was the first week of March and the semester was over at the end of April. It seemed like June would NEVER get here.

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frankdbunny July 3 2009, 01:12:39 UTC

"While five P. siblings were making valentines together, where was little N? Why, in his room, making a special secret valentine for a special secret someone. But don't worry--it won't stay secret for long, not if I have anything to say about it! XOXO, Sitter Girl."

I can totally imagine this.

clio21000 July 3 2009, 01:17:18 UTC

They'd probably waltz to Buddy Holly or something.

Love it.

author_by_night July 3 2009, 01:27:56 UTC

I don't really have anything to snark here because this kind of tomfoolery actually sounds pretty authentic--I can totally see some "I'm so grown-up now" tween doing that, although they'd probably abandon it after realizing the three extra syllables are not worth the effort.

Oh, definitely. Like when I tried to have people call me by my middle name, but gave up because nobody went for it.

When I was eleven, nobody had boyfriends but the popular girls and all it meant was that you held hands at recess and slow-danced surfer-style to Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush" which they played at every damn dance multiple times.

Going to the roller rink or the movies together was the height of true love when I was in middle school.

In reference to the twins picture - what movie/show is that from? Just curious. :)

Stacey hears Laine say the word "childish" and assumes she's referring to their babysitting clients.I want to bash Stacey for being naive, but in fairness, kids that age ARE pretty naive when it comes to their friends. So reality points ( ... )

iamtheliquorr July 3 2009, 01:35:23 UTC

Re: Stacey listening in on Laine: I guess I just found it a bit strange to equate "childish" (when used in the context of Stacey's friends) with baby-sitting clients, but ehhhhh maybe it's just me. For the most part Stacey's reactions were believable.

And the twins picture is from Skins, which I'm currently slightly obsesso over. It's such the anti-BSC/SVH lol.

lozbabie July 4 2009, 09:05:44 UTC

I've seen it happen, parents falling out when their kids have an arguement. Best memory from Year 10 is two mothers screaming at each other in the carpark after their kids broke up about what a slut the daughter was and how she was going to get the son charged with statutory rape. The rest of the year thought it was hysterical, while the two kids in question were DYING of embarrassment. (because who doesn't want their mother shouting out their sex life across the school?)

Ultimate irony? It was just a blip in their relationship, they're now married with three kids and the mothers STILL hate each other with a holy passion. The wedding was hysterical to watch. (thankfully the couple by that point had got past embarrassment and now find it just as funny as their friends do)

toesock29 July 7 2009, 16:11:09 UTC

lol that's hysterical!

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