The source of the housening.

[dreadedcandiru2]

It has recently come to my attention that the story line we call the Housening is based on a real-life event. In one of her more recent notes, Lynn explained that when she was fourteen, her parents had offered to give her recently widowed paternal grandmother a place to stay for six months or so so that not only could she regroup after the passing of her husband, their children would have much-needed supervision. I should think that Merv and Ursula explained to Lynn and Alan that sacrifices had to be made for the benefit of all so complaining about having to live in the basement was not, as we tend towards Briticisms in our speech say, on. Needless to say, Lynn did not take things at all well; she'd regarded the presence of her grandmother as an unwelcome imposition and a sign that her parents lacked faith in her. How then, might one ask, do we reconcile Lynn's fifty-year long tantrum inspired by an ailing old lady who needed to occupy herself more than she needed to indulge a raging know-nothing know-it-all with April's being in the wrong when it happened to her? The answer is simple enough for those of us who remember how vain and silly she can be; if she were to do that, she'd have a good reason for it and thus be in the right. Since the Pattersons are always right, April would have nothing to complain about.

Comments

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

the whole thing seemed unnecessary. Were there really no homes in Milbourgh? Look I know the housing markeet isn't great but still

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

There were indeed homes in Milborough that they could have lived in; the problem was that there were none as 'nice' as Lovey Saltzmann's dilapidated old barn or within Mike's financial comfort zone.

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

Wait did Dee even find work?
You know since Mike can work anywhere I'd go where the jobs are.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

The problem with that line of thinking is that it requires Mike to be able to think coherently.

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

So Dee was unemployed at the time?
I understand people like living near their families but sometiimes it just happens that you can't

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

So Dee was unemployed at the time?

She did have a job in the same building John did; the problem, of course, is that she was too busy applauding every stupid thing Mike did to stand up for herself.

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I dunno I'd personnaly look for a cheaper house to have your in laws grief. But hey I'm not a delicate genius

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

I also wouldn't have quit a high-paying job because I didn't want to be the 'bad guy'; that's because I'm not one either.

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

So let me get this straight, he quit cause he didn't want to insult someone

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

He quit because he didn't want to have to fire anyone; the end result is that he's destroyed his career and left a huge mess for his successor to clean up because he's a whiny little puke who doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up.

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

My god he's a pussy.

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, the quitting incident was awful-- and indicative of how out of her depth Lynn let herself get as a storyteller-- and it still didn't make any sense that they couldn't move. Mike was still bringing in grocery money with freelancing, whatever Lynn imagined that meant, and pharmacists make a lot of money and are in pretty high demand. It's possible that Lynn thought Dee was a pharmacy technician (and therefor making ~$10-15/hr). This would explain their willingness to live in a friendly firetrap, while making Mike an even bigger dick, but that's not what it says.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

It's possible that Lynn thought Dee was a pharmacy technician (and therefor making ~$10-15/hr). This would explain their willingness to live in a friendly firetrap, while making Mike an even bigger dick, but that's not what it says.

No, it's not; what that whole thing tells me is that she used the stupidest, quickest, cheapest way possible to get Mike and Dee to take over the Pattermanse.