she didn't even know her future step-daughter's age
wtf? How are you marrying someone with one child and you don't even know how old she is?
shareI asked the same thing, that doesn't make sense to me.
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I love this movie but that one little line ticks me off!!! Drives me insane...
shareActually, I can't remember if that scene (of Vada getting her period) came before or after Shelly and Harry decided to get married. If I recall, Shelly was still new to the job and didn't know much about them yet. It wouldn't necessarily have occurred to me to ask my employer right off the bat, "How old is your daughter?" But that's just me *shrugs*
shareActually, I can't remember if that scene (of Vada getting her period) came before or after Shelly and Harry decided to get married. If I recall, Shelly was still new to the job and didn't know much about them yet.
They announced their engagement at the carnival. The next day Vada ran away with Thomas J, and the next morning she got her period. share
I used to have a friend who didn't even know how old her brothers were, or her parents. Weird. I do sometimes lose track of how old my parents are...but my siblings? Never.
-- I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
I got the feeling that this added line/clarification was for the audience's benefit although I agree that the execution and choice of way to establish her age was not the best.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
It's odd, because early on (when Shelly asks if there is anything wrong with Vada a day or two after she 'faints' at dinner and Shelly says something about Vada being confused about death) her dad says "She's a perfectly happy 11 year old girl."
So they did have it earlier. Guess they wanted to really make sure we knew.
I was under the impression that she asked because she was surprised that a girl that age didn't know about periods.
sharei also thought it was because a girl her age didn't know.
it was to show how much vada needed a woman in her life to guide her.
There's just a possibility that I will kiss a doorknob.
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In the novelization, which is told from Vada's POV, she DID know about periods but was certain that she was bleeding too much for it to be that and thought that her cancer had spread.
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Lol. My 32 sister had to ask me how old I was today. Shes 6 years older than me, so you'd think she'd know (plus she's known me a very long time)
shareNow that I'm older and watched My Girl again its funny what I point out in the movie and that was one line that stuck out to me.
@Chi_CCHICk....I'm 6 years older than my sister and 7 years older than my brother so I can never forget their age, but my parents I forget their age I will never forget their birthday I know my mom forget hers when I tell her "happy birthday" she will say I forgot it was my birthday.
I don't know when my dads birthday is? sometime in July I think. I can never remember the years my parents were born in. Late 1950s I think.
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