Super Special #1: Baby-Sitters on Board (1/2)

[3_foot_6]

You guys. YOU GUYS. I picked this book to snark because I vaguely remembered that it hadn't aged all that well, and then I opened it up and remembered that it had the WORST PICTURES IN THE HISTORY OF ART. It is worth a read if only to gape at the pictures and try to imagine the meeting at Scholastic where someone managed to convince an editor they

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[cassandraclue]

Really? They used to provide shower caps. :( I have some from the Grand Floridian at home.

[irishgypsie]

This is FANTASTIC! I laughed out loud a lot, and I especially love "Krusty". :D

[kakeochi_umai]

...And there goes my afternoon.

Oh SWEET LORD, MY TIME HAS COME. WHERE IS MY LIST. ("Item one: Insert sharpened pencil up your nose. Rotate twice...")
We're only on the first page and already you have made my day.

OMG ROMY AND MICHELE REFERENCE WIN.

They get a whopping two out of every twenty-four hours off?
Wait, Mallory's getting to do her own thing and somebody else is doing Nanny Diaries-style slave labour for the Pikes? Enjoy that while it lasts, Mallory!

Did she actually just congratulate herself for treating a sick little boy like a human being instead of pretending he's invisible?
Unless she means she wouldn't normally start a conversation with some random stranger. I don't tend to either, unless they talk to me first.

Do they actually say that was a photo of the banana falling off the table? My ass.

Also, I've never been on a cruise either, but how the hell do those bunks not have goddamn ladders?

Also, I like to think that Claud's stepping on K. Ron's hand on purpose. Wouldn't you?

I'm sure Claudia's stalker would

[sgrfrostedflake]

I always thought that Stacey did mean the 'conversation with a random stranger' thing, as I'm the same way as you and don't strike up converstaions with strangers unless they talk to me first.

Claud stepping on Kristy's hand: I always assumed there WAS a ladder and that Claudia either missed the next rung of the ladder and stepped on the bed/Kristy's hand or (more likely) that Kristy was sleeping with her hand ON the ladder rung. And, yes, I think Claud may have been stepping on Kristy's hand on purpose, at least the second and third times, though probably not the first.

[kakeochi_umai]

Oh, and fun factoid from my beautician who worked on a cruise ship for a while: the food makes you put on weight like Kalteen bars. It's stuffed with preservatives so that it'll stay edible until they reach the next port. That's part of the reason why they have gyms on there.

[sgrfrostedflake]

That is a fun factoid, kakeochi_umai! I'm fascinated by that information. I never knew that about cruise ship food. Not that I've ever been on cruise. (I didn't grow up in the 'Brook where people take other families on their vacations for no conceivable reason.)

[sgrfrostedflake]

That is a fun factoid, kakeochi_umai! I'm fascinated by that information. I never knew that about cruise ship food. Not that I've ever been on cruise. (I didn't grow up in the 'Brook where people take other families on their vacations for no conceivable reason.)

I'm going to have to ask my aunt if she knows this because she loves going on cruises and also loves exercising and staying in shape.

[irishgypsie]

I don't know about that. I actually lost weight on the one cruise I went on (my honeymoon) and I never once set foot in their gym because they charged money to use it. Lame.

[sgrfrostedflake]

Are you sure that the Pikes paid for Stacey and MA to come with them? (I certainly never thought about it one way or another as a kid but now that I'm re-reading as an adult, I certainly hope they did because it was their choice to hire them and they were not the responsibility of Mr. Pike's company.) However, I don't know that I'd put it past Mr. Pike to tell his company "Yeah, it'll be my wife and me and our ten kids on the trip". Maybe they (the Pikes, though maybe also Mr. Pike's company) figured it was ten people already so what was a couple more