FF#1 Kristy's Big News Chapters 1-9

[awishfuldreamer]

So I sat down recently and had one of those out-of-the-blue remembrances: “Oh, crap! I promised I would snark Kristy’s Big News like a year ago!” So I sat down and saw that part of the doc was still in my computer and I had just never finished. So here we go! I have always wanted to snark Kristy’s father, one of my most hated characters. And better

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[choclytgremlins]

Man, this actually explains a great deal about why Charlie is such an indentured servant all the time. Poor kid got so used to being the replacement dad for his younger siblings that he can't knock himself out of it now. Of course, if Watson and Elizabeth weren't such shitty parents, they'd encourage him to to be more of a kid now that he doesn't have to do that any more. But man, Charlie. Respect.

[heymalice]

patrick displays very clear signs of narcissistic personality disorder

[shatisarockgod]

She looks like she just got out of the shower and is depressed because she ran out of conditioner or has dandruff or something--LMFAO

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[shatisarockgod]

You can say what you want about how children should respect their parents--If you have good parents, yeah, they deserve respect. But Patrick isn't a good parent. He doesn't deserve respect from any of his kids.

She says that Patrick has grown up "somewhat"--No, he really hasn't. IF he had, he'd take responsibility for his piss poor actions instead of blaming his kids, his ex wife--he'd probably blame Louie if he could!

He’ll be an especially great father when our kids are young. And then, I believe, he’ll stay to watch them grow up--No, I really don't think so. And there's nothing wrong with being a 'bit of a kid'. But you really need to act like a man when it concerns something important like getting married and being a father to your kids. You can't treat them like they're toys that you get tired of playing with. And that's basically what you did with the kids. "Man, I'm over this whole husband and father bullshit. I'm outta here."

[metamorphstorm]

With the divorce rate at 50%, I think a lot of us can relate to Kristy’s family situation. I know I can. My father left when I was three, leaving my mom with four kids, just like Kristy’s family. I’ll be 29 soon, so it’ll be 26 years without any contact from him at all. He was supposed to pay (I think) $50 per child, the lowest amount the judge would go, and the judge seemed embarrassed about doing that, and my father wouldn’t even pay that. The government forced $8.20 out of him every couple of months. Needless to say, we didn’t eat well . . . before my mom remarried to the best stepfather in the world. Things were much better after that. What gets me is that my little sister (who has also, obviously, never met or heard from our father) takes comfort in the knowledge that even though our awesome stepfather has since passed away, she still has a “real father” out there somewhere. I only refer to my biological father as a father (never a Dad, a title that someone else earned) or by his first name, something I don’t actually do with

[metamorphstorm]

Maybe I’m just more heartless/feelingless than most, but I strongly believe that kids who act sad about missing a parent who left when they were a year and a half old (like my sister) are just looking for sympathy and attention. I truly don’t believe they have any memories, and related to that, feelings, about people they can’t remember. I can get missing someone in an abstract way, like hearing cool stories about my grandparents and wishing I’d gotten to meet them/know them better, or thinking I liked the stepbrother I met when I was five and kind of wanting to see him again . . . but not in a “Waaa, I’m so sad and alone, pity me, notice me!” way