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Meredith's Shoes

posted 12 years ago by selkn-asrai
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I've got to be honest... if I were Meredith and the little girl took my expensive shoes from my bags without me knowing and ran around in them until the heel broke, I'd be downright aggravated.

I understand if this is construed as vapid or selfish, but I think that going through a guest's things is impolite and entirely inappropriate, let alone assuming that the guest will (or should) be ok with a stranger ruining his/her possessions. The little girl wasn't even encouraged to apologize to Meredith.

Meredith handled it better than most would have.

"Now, bring me that horizon."

[–] QTJewels19 12 years ago

Definitely not vapid or selfish! I, too, would be incredibly pissed if some kid took my shoes without asking and broke the heel on them. I also found it incredibly tacky she didn't apologize. The RIGHT thing to do would have been for her mom to offer to pay for them, seeing as how it was HER daughter who broke them.

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[–] selkn-asrai 12 years ago

The Stones also seemed like the sort of family that looked down on people who valued their possessions "too much". Poor Meredith. She was far too proper and polite to ask Susannah to pay for it, and all she did was get more disdain for NOT smiling about her favorite pink heels being broken.

"Now, bring me that horizon."

[–] baidoasomalia 12 years ago

The Stones also seemed like the sort of family that looked down on people who valued their possessions "too much".

Totally, and yet they live in this Currier and Ives tableau with the interiors and wardrobes brought to you by L.L. Bean.

[–] shukti 11 years ago

Ha! That bugged me too!

You know it would have been WWIII had Meredith broken "Sybil's favorite coffee cup"….

"We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here and we want them now."

[–] beforesunset83 10 years ago

If that happened to me, I probably would have broken down and cried. The kid was a complete brat for taking the shoes without asking Meredith and she should've been old enough to know better. Susannah should have offered to pay for the shoes to be repaired instead of just offering glue. Even if the Stone family doesn't value materialistic things but it's common courtesy to offer to fix or replace something that they broke. It's kind of similar to the "Sex and the City" episode, "A Woman's Right to Shoes".

-"Moo with me"

[–] princessbroccoli 10 years ago

I would be so pissed off if that happened to me! And all Susannah said was "Sorry. We might have some glue." :/