Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Twinkle: Someone Please Tell Fun Sink That Bella Is Half Muslim

Fun Sink has had the grand idea to invite Bella to the pool on Friday, which is all well and good, except that it means that I have to talk to Bella's mom about it, and Bella's mom thinks I'm weird. Because of Fun Sink. So it falls to me to coordinate the whole thing--"Hey, Bella's Mom--my mother-in-law and father-in-law would like to cordially invite Bella to the pool on Friday afternoon..." Who knows how Bella's mom feels about Bella going to the pool with a couple of strangers? I'm not sure I'd be cool with it. But I'm in the middle. It's Fun Sink's big idea and I have to arrange it--it's either that or unleash Fun Sink and her weirdness on Bella's mom, which will just make me look even worse than I already do to the mother of someone who's very important to Twinklette.

What bothers me about the whole thing is that Fun Sink is trying to force a friendship that doesn't need to be forced. Twinklette and Bella just click on some fundamental four-year-old level, and they don't need anyone pushing their friendship. I feel like Fun Sink has it in her mind that Bella is this wholesome example of Jewish girlhood, and it's just not the case. I'm a big fan of Bella's; I have absolutely nothing against her, even though I don't love dealing with her mom. Still, if she's a friend of Twinklette's, she's a friend of mine. I also like Twinklette's other school friends: the adorably named Alice, Mary Jane, Sadie, Evie...to mention a few. Why can't Fun Sink meddle with any of them? It's because she thinks Bella is the Jewish friend, and I guess Bella is. Halfway, at least. 

If anyone wants to mention the other half of Bella's ethnic origin to Fun Sink, you would be doing me a huge favor. 
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  1. The Adventures of Daddy RabbitJuly 19, 2012 at 7:03 AM

    I find it so weird that Fun Sink is obsessed with Jewish friends. Pretty much every pre-law-school-era friend Mr. Twinkle had was a Jew, and although they were nice people, I always had the sense that he was friends with them not because of any merit of their own, but just because they were Jewish. Now I know where that came from.

    Of course, Fun Sink's mantra of sticking to the Tribe was Cassandra-like prophecy ... once he got out into the big wide world outside of BBYO, Mr. Twinkle made friends with a shiksa like me and then I took him out around my shiksa friends and the next thing you know Fun Sink has a (sort of former) shiksa for a daughter-in-law and (soon to be) three granddaughters who may or may not grow up marrying nice Jewish boys and coming for seder. SEE WHERE IT LED? TEARS!

    -- Julep

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    1. The Adventures of Daddy RabbitJuly 20, 2012 at 7:47 AM

      Let us hope the friendship with Bella doesn't lead down the primrose path of dalliance--straight toward Hezbollah.

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