Man, the Evanses are going hard on this tell-don’t-show campaign to convince us that Mrs. Horner is just the most wonderfulest person ever. I’m less than sold. A 94-year-old person with failing organs declining to accept a kidney from a healthy 19-year-old is heroic in the same way that going to the grocery store and not defecating on the produce is heroic. Could a doctor even ethically perform this operation? And while Mrs. Horner isn’t owed even the barest amount of praise for her empty “I would if I could” kidney offer, nothing changes the fact that this paragon of self-sacrifice could have donated a kidney in the previous nine decades of her life and clearly didn’t. If Mrs. Horner is a saint who totally would donate a kidney if she could, then why didn’t she when she could? Seriously, what is this gaslighting nonsense? It’s one thing for a train of thought to metaphorically derail, but Luann’s logical locomotive somehow manages to capsize and sink on the tracks.
By the way, remember yesterday when Luann was talking about becoming a living donor and giving her kidney to Mrs. Horner? And now she’s hearing about other tragically sympathetic people like single mothers, young children, and, um, engineers who also desperately need kidneys? Turns out when Luann’s offer might actually be taken up, suddenly Luann is just too awed by how unattainably inspiring Mrs. Horner is. Yep. Just too inspiring. Shouldn’t even try competing, really. Hey, let’s change the subject to anything else!
I’m not talking about schadenfreude, I’m talking about consequences. Her parents have been way too lenient on her. The fact that she still thought of herself as the victim when Tara brought a weapon into her daycare class should have opened some eyes as to the severe case of entitlement this girl has, but her parents ended up saying nothing to her about it. Or how about when she let Tara sleep at the Fuse and the place got robbed? Once again, no consequences for Luann despite it being her fault. And let’s not get into how she once gave her father “I will clean my room” as a Christmas gift and her parents didn’t call her out on the fact that cleaning one’s room is the bare minimum of expected behavior yet she’s acting like it’s a huge sacrifice on her part.
There’s a difference between being sheltered and being coddled. Luann is a grown adult and she should start being treated like one.
Luann will never be allowed to have a boyfriend again; bad first dates played for laughs is the furthest things will ever go. Her virtue will remain as secure as Fort Knox.
The girl who gives her family and friends empty carboard boxes as Christmas gifts? Yeah, I’m not buying it.