Karen's Bully, chs, 7-15

[themariee]

I am back with installment #2 of Karen's [a] Bully ;)

I also copy/pasted from Word this time, so the typos should be to a minimum this time. (Thank God.)

Comments

[masterdivinity]

When I was reading this the thing that confused me was how everyone was angry that they couldn't use the phone all night. But that makes no sense..... Bobby calls, you hang up, then you dial the phone number & he gets a busy signal. I don't understand how him making a few prank phone calls is going to prevent everyone from making phone calls.

[ciaraxyerra]

seriously. what were they doing, forgetting they needed to make a call until the phone started ringing? & then immediately forgetting about it again as soon as the phone was answered, only to remember when it rings again? it's a miracle these people manage to put on pants in the morning without somehow wrapping them around their heads & falling down the stairs.

[masterdivinity]

I also didn't understand why they didn't just leave the phone off the hook for 30 minutes or so, Bobby would get bored with getting a busy signal and stopping trying

[themariee]

Because that would have been too logical.

[lisaerin]

Doesn't Karen tell bullshit stories like Bobby's all the time, though?

[themariee]

That's what I thought.

[gamma_x_orionis]

I was grinning all the way through this, oh my Lord xD

Bobby is apparently a very secure young man.

This literally made me dissolve into a fit of laughter.

[sandstorm]

Me too!

[themariee]

Yeah... I don't know very many 7 year-old boys who would imitate a ballerina in front of all his classmates and risk being called a sissy by his friends.

[kakeochi_umai]

My internet browser has a spellcheck that chucks a fit every time I use a word that's spelled differently in UK/Australasian English than in US English (eg. "I would like to vaporise Karen. I also need to work out how to get my iPad to stop auto-"correcting" it.)

Karen wakes up with a tummy ache, dreading the fact that Bobby would be her neighbor in just a few hours.
This would be a lot more sympathetic if it were an actual bullied kid and her bully rather than a popular tyrant and the one person who says no to her demands. That book about Karen being bullied on the bus was probably brought in because of all the real bullied kids who said "Bitch, please."

which prompts Bobby to make a “well at least my parents aren’t divorced so I only have one house” insult.
So near and so far! A well-placed insult about Karen's constant two-two this, two-two that would've been great.

“Tell Hannie to put on her good manners.”Oh, you mean like you put on at your dad and stepmum's wedding when your neighbour came round with a gift for them? Oh, wait

[themariee]

Nancy was invited from the beginning, but Hannie was really the only one out of the two other Musketeers who Karen mentioned in respect to the party. My thoughts is that either (a) Nancy agreed to come with no drama, or (b) Karen didn't think Nancy was all that important. Knowing Karen, I'm guessing option (b) is probably the case. Nancy got crapped on a lot.

I can understand why Amanda would be so upset. I don't think she handled the situation well, but I can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing if I were in her shoes. But I'm biased, because I never liked Amanda. I was Team Hannie.

[kakeochi_umai]

Heh, I know what you mean about being biased. Melody got less of my sympathy than she should have because I hate how her family were held up as better people not just because they acted less snobby but because of things like how they turned off the fountain. I know Skylar was scared of it, but the babysitters kept using the fountain as an example of how much better people the Kormans were, even though they didn't exactly sell the thing and give the proceeds to charity or anything.

[design_star_21]

I read that as the Jenny MOBSTER incident lol

[fairest1]

When she first said "Where's my fish?" I thought she was very, very, very stupid and had left her pet fish behind. But a fountain in the upstairs hallway seems like an odd architectural choice. Outdoors, cool. In the main hallway, kinda impressive on entering the house. Upstairs, it would mostly seem like a flood hazard. Unless it's one of those desktop fountains that's supposed to be relaxing, but that would need to be packed with your other stuff.

Why the hell is Melody being blamed for all the changes? She might've picked out a new color for her room, but beyond that any renovations would be her parents' decision (she says she wanted the vegetable garden, but that's more likely to have been the project of one of her parents, who wanted one like they had in their previous house).

[kahran042]

Doesn't Kristy and the Snobs say that the fountain is in the front hall?

[themariee]

I actually never got to read that one, but that would have made so much more sense! But this book makes it sound like the fish was upstairs, so who knows? I don't think the ghostwriters consulted each other before writing this one.