A Year With the BSC is an informal series wherein I explore the 1990’s CD-ROM video game The Baby-sitters Club Friendship Kit. The game is more of a personal organizer; it features with a calendar, an address book, a stationary kit, a flyer maker, and a personality profile. I’m focusing on the more interesting aspect of the game: the personalized letters and the journal entries. The full list of entries can be found at rereadingmychildhood.com.
I don’t normally post the “front page” of the BSC Friendship Kit, but Kristy’s advice seemed . . . strange.
“Inside and out?” I must be unfamiliar with these magnifying glasses that enable you to see the “inside” of things, like the aforementioned bugs. Maybe Kristy shouldn’t let her babysitting charges look inside bugs, just a thought.
We have the results of Mary Anne and Hannie’s costume conundrum.
My mother is a gifted crafter and she made most of my costumes. However, the last year I trick-or-treated (I was twelve), I put on black pants, a black sweater, and I painted my face white with a trickle of red down the side of my mouth. When people asked if I was a vampire, which would be a perfectly reasonable thing to think I was, I insisted I was a “bloodsucker.” I think its a vampire without getting the teeth or the dope outfits. I was just a crazy person who bit people, really.
Why couldn’t the BSC have a haunted house? You could make it kid-friendly. My elementary school once had a kid-friendly haunted house. It was fine but my dad went in with me and spent the whole time explaining the gags. “You see, there are two people in that couch. One is poking out the top and he screams while another person sticks his legs out and moves them around.” Dad, I did not know that but could you do this after we leave the haunted house and not in front of the actors? We’re holding up the line.
Got that right, Jessi.
You heard her, guys. For some reason, she can’t just tell us. We have to wait until next time. What will her idea be? A haunted baby-sitting session? A baby-sitting session inside a haunted house they have no affiliation with? A boycott of the SMS Haunted House on the grounds it promotes Satanism? Find out next time, on A Year With the BSC!
Mind Full of Marbles 