Madi seems to have a lot in common with Toby. Do you think Madi will kill Greta the way Toby's hatred killed Bella? Speaking of Toby, I've been worried about her dessert for The Next Charterstone Meeting. I wonder how it's coming along?
Madi seems to have a lot in common with Toby. Do you think Madi will kill Greta the way Toby's hatred killed Bella? Speaking of Toby, I've been worried about her dessert for The Next Charterstone Meeting. I wonder how it's coming along?
This has got a long way to go to be a heartwarming redemption story. And that’s the scary part. A long, long, interminably long way. At least the After-School Specials of the 60s only lasted 45 minutes, less commercials.
ReplyDeleteWanders, I picture the Cameron kitchen filled with Toby’s desserts gone wrong, becoming moldy and disgusting. Ian (everybody remember Ian?) is likely refusing to enter the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteJeez, Madi looks like a giantess as she looms over Saul. She could crush him like a bug. And I’m shocked, positively shocked, that she’s not charmed by Greta. How many weeks before Madi and Toby meet and bond? Toby will be the bored, contemptuous older sister Madi never had.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
ReplyDelete"Perhaps Cats Or Muffins Are More To Your Liking".
Spare bedroom. In there.
Fine.
Dachshund. Greta...
Ew! Away!
Madi has to be at least six feet tall to tower over Saul like that. If she's six feet tall at age 13, how tall is she likely to eventually become? She doesn't fit in at Charterstone now, but in a few years she may literally not fit in.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that Madi will end up with the Camerons. If not, why the passing drama over Toby's dessert?
No surprise that KM and June are once again going with their "formula." Why do I feel like we're back to the Estelle blind-date story where every day depicted yet a worse scenario?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, just as Mary's salmon squares killed Bella, I think it's a given that Toby's 27th baking catastrophe will do Greta in. Ian tossed his portion out their kitchen window while Toby's back was turned. Greta, half starving after wandering around Charterstone for days (Madi tossed her from Saul's fire escape) will happen upon it and go belly up.
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ReplyDeleteOkay, Karen and June are just mocking themselves now.
Allow me to belabor the obvious point that nobody has that many stupid portraits of their dog. (BTW, whatever happened to all the portraits of Saul's ex-dog, to paraphrase the brilliant John Cleese?)
Meanwhile, Greta was standing right there at the door when Lyle and Angri, er, Madi first showed up, and she has been there the entire time. I guess we're supposed to believe that Madi was so engrossed in her phone that she didn't notice.
I'm with Wanders. I really want to see how Mary's practical joke on Toby is coming along.
-- Scottie McW.
Oh my gosh — I completely forgot about Toby’s desserts! We’ve left Toby in the kitchen, unsupervised, for far too long.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Saul go full Grouchy Old Man and spend the next few months verbally eviscerating Madi. She's foul-mouthed and obnoxious, but she's just a beginner. Saul has decades of experience on her, and should be able to reduce her to quivering pink jelly. He can start by tossing her phone out a second story window. "You want to call someone? Land line! You want to use a computer? Public library! Now pick up those God-damned clothes and keep your filthy mouth shut."
ReplyDeleteWalking down the hallway, Madi was engrossed in her phone. But when she sees Greta, the phone is gone? Did Greta eat it? Problem solved!
ReplyDeleteI wish we could have seen Saul tell Madi to put her clothes back in her suitcase cause I'm pretty surprised she complied.
I'm having a hard time believing that any 13-year-old wouldn't like a dog...but then again, why should I be surprised by anything Moy serves up?
@Jana C. H., we can only hope. IT is amazing how much of a wuss Ol' Man Wynter has become.
ReplyDeleteI am LOVING this story line. Every aspect of it is so ridiculous. And it's really bringing out the best snark from everyone.
I do feel sorry for Madi. Her father is a completely self-absorbed jerk. She's grieving the loss of the one person who cared about her, so he drops her off for a few months at a stranger's house, where he can't even be bothered to stay long enough to see that she gets settled in. He probably couldn't tell Saul about any medical or other history because he has no idea; Grandma took care of all of that. And Lyle is a master of the guilt trip. It's beautiful.I love his last little zinger before he takes off.
@Scottie McW, I think you pretty much called it on Madi's reaction to Greta. I think the dialogue you imagined was almost exatcly what she said. But is she really so clueless that she is just now noticing the dog?
Also, I don't want to wish any evil to befall Greta. Hasn't she suffered enough already?
In my experience, kids and teenage girls love cute little dogs. I teach first-year college students (mostly 18 year olds) and I brought my Maltese to class once, and all the girls (and some of the dudes) were utterly delighted by him.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, Madi may be a seething ball of hatred due to having no mom and a father who clearly doesn't care for her all that much.
I'm looking forward to KM doing her version of the bunny rabbit scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a weiner dog...
Madi is going to a real pain until the town that a Greta is hurt, probably hit by a car, maybe driven by Jared. That will break Madi’s hard exterior and she will melt into a perfect angel who now embraces all that is good.
ReplyDeleteTim@424pm:
ReplyDeleteWhat if it’s the bunny scene from “Fatal Attraction”? Yikes!
I think eeww is an odd reaction to a dog. It's not like Saul has a pet cockroach.
ReplyDeleteThere are creepy guys who use dogs at parks to attract women (or even more scuzzy) kids. I was raised with dachshunds, and they are generally sweet dogs that you can't help but warm up to. I'm guessing that Madi has never been around dogs, and doesn't know how to react to them. Let's hope Greta converts her, or it's going to be a long summer.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that Madi is so unaccustomed to dealing with people (or animals) in the real, non-virtual world that the sight of anything fur-covered must throw her into an "ew" fest. Perhaps an episode of "Black Mirror" is in order for her.
ReplyDeleteI'd take this bratty kid to a shelter if it was me. Greta comes first.
ReplyDeleteI notice that Saul (who understands old-fashioned manners even if he doesn't often choose to use them) offers to introduce Madi to Greta, not Greta to Madi. He is establishing their respective ranks. One always introduces the lower-status person to the higher status person. "Greta, allow me to introduce Madi, my cousin twice-removed. Madi, this is my dear companion Greta."
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ReplyDeleteThere was an old dog named Greta.
ReplyDeleteWhen Madi leaned down to pet her,
She turned with a twist
And bit Madi’s wrist.
Scolded Saul, ‘You should’ve known bettah!
If Greta DID bite, Madi’s skinny, bare legs would be quite a temptation.
ReplyDeleteSaul better get accustomed to months of Madi clumping around in those boots. She could probably drop kick both Saul and Greta into the Charterstone pool with little effort.