That impressed Emma, since she had painted those chairs herself more than a decade ago and knew how little it took to get them to complain under a person’s weight. He did not even shift enough to make the somewhat rickety, wildly decorated wooden chair beneath him squawk. No cake.” Hank stretched his long legs out and did not budge. “Cake,” Ruth demanded with the quiet intensity of the calm before a storm. Maybe she should have prayed not to run into the last person she wanted to see at the old house on the same day she had come running home with her tail between her legs and her future up in the air. She’d been too exhausted and too upset for it to really sink in earlier.įrom the moment she’d run blindly out of one of the best restaurants in Atlanta, rushed to pick up Ruth and driven from Georgia to Louisiana without even stopping to change her clothes, Emma had prayed. She turned to find Ruth, still in her ballerina tutu and tie-dyed top, standing barefoot on a wooden kitchen chair painted banana-yellow, glaring across the 1950s’ style dinette table at Hank. “But if you throw a fit-” Hank kept his tone matter-of-fact sounding, smooth and soothing “-you will upset Otis and Earnest T and the three of us will have to go have our tea somewhere else.”Įmma pressed her fingertips to her temples and clenched her back teeth to force herself to focus. “Ruth?” Emma pushed up to her feet and for a second the momentum made her head go woozy. “kids are great-for other people”-Corsaut talking to her daughter about pretend cake? How did she get to this couch? How long had she been sleeping? And why was Hank-Mr. Starting with not having to do dishes after eating it.”Įmma swept her gaze over the cluttered but homey living room of the old Newberry home and thoughts of Ben and the choice she had avoided making fell away. “I think you’ll find, Miss Ruth Newberry, that there is a lot to be said for having pretend cake. Why hadn’t she just said no? Running away wasn’t an answer. And then last night, an out-of-the-blue proposal.Įmma shut her eyes. That decision lead to another date and then another. He liked to see her happy, to give her nice things, he’d said. But he’d made her feel like an ingrate for refusing the gesture. She had told him it was too expensive, not to mention impractical for her as a nurse and single mom. She never should have accepted it as a birthday gift from her boss, Dr. She tugged at the neckline of her only really nice dress then ran her fingers over her diamond bracelet. Her mind raced back frantically over the events of the past twenty-four hours. That’s just the way it is.”Īt the sound of a man’s voice holding a potentially temper-tantrum-inducing conversation with her daughter, Emma sat bolt up and almost tumbled off the edge of the couch. It isn't DVC's fault, but many people think about Disney overall as a company and not individual divisions.“It’s pretend cake, Ruth. I think price hikes are normal and alone it doesn't really seem like a big deal - but the combination of the 2 has a lot of people, myself included unhappy. I'll also say despite DVC not really having anything to do with the recent changes - the changes made by the parks division has left a pretty sour taste in a lot of people's mouths as they've not only increased prices but they've also removed a lot of perks for onsite guests. of course resale restrictions will eventually be a bigger deal as they build new resorts, so maybe that will change things - although that definitely seems like a honey vs. If direct points only provided the room, then there is not much of an incentive to buy direct vs. I hear you, I think one of the bigger changes is that buying DVC resale is a lot easier or at least more well known now today with the Internet, social media etc and DVC has to compete with that to sell points directly. Ultimately they did the right thing for the members, but if she promised to get answers, those answers could have easily been - sorry but everyone is SOL and you're going to lose your points. There isn't a promise in there for anything more than more information. Just my opinion, and I think we can agree to disagree on this matterīTW- Promising to get members more information shouldn't be something she can't fulfill too. Personally you may not have needed answers, same with me since it didn't impact me - but we could have just as easily skipped over the emails or deleted them. A lot of other companies (Royal Caribbean is one example) communicated a lot. They weren't promising anything by sending it out either, they could just say we're trying to figure things out and we're working as fast as we can to get everyone answers. But I think a lot of members would have found it useful to communicate it out. It wasn't needed for me, I wasn't in a situation where I had expiring points thankfully.
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