Foobs versus the service industry.....

[dreadedcandiru2]

As we've seen, the train trip up to Vancouver was complicated by the fact that Elly accidentally booked the family into roomettes because she was too busy crowing about having made a great deal on tickets to check how much space she and the family would be occupying. Given that the VIA Rail employee was represented as a rather revolting rural stereotype Lynn thinks that people who haven't gone to University are, my guess is that it's somehow the fault of VIA Rail that Elly is too disorganized, lazy and stupid to live on her own. It's also their fault that she's loaded with lunatic misapprehensions.

The first, of course, is that people are supposed to bend over backwards to compensate for her inattention, lack of awareness and general ditziness. She proved that at the bank when she complained that the tellers were put on this Earth to do whatever she wanted and she proved it again when a department store clerk interrupted her ranting about how unprofessional she was by pointing out that Elly was guilty of the same things she'd accused her of.

An allied behavioral anomaly is the assumption that people in the service industry are somehow obliged to look after the offsprings while she goes and does whatever. As the "Storm in April" special reminded us, part of the reason Elly was so angered by April's wandering around is that the bossy people she used to work with pointed her to an unfair and mean sign that said that they are not babysitters for idiots.

This leads me to the most annoying part of Elly's struggles with the service industry: her playing at being a store-owner. Most of the people she'd imposed on can deal with her nonsense with, if not aplomb, then at least enough professionalism to avoid screaming in rage; the merest refusal to acknowledge how awesome she is, on the other hand, brings out the easily-infuriated asshole in her.

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[josephusrex.livejournal.com]

In fairness to Lynn, it should be pointed out that in some of these instances, she's agreeing with us that Elly is a ditzy, whining, hypocritical, entitled doofus. That, of course, does not make Elly any less irritating to us.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

What it does do is remind us that at one point, she was able to see that she didn't have all the answers. As the years wore on, that went away.