Rute did wind up talking to the priest later on, though his advice mostly boiled down to “Maybe if you started showing up here every week you wouldn’t have to worry about things like this?” which she suspected had more to do with his concerns about church attendance among The Youths than her actual situation.
She also told her family about the Haunted Mansion, basically as soon as she got home and Babs asked her what her job interview was for. None of them were pleased to hear about it except Tony, who only turned four like a month ago and therefore his opinion didn’t count.
“Rute,” Nelson had said, “You can’t work at a place like that.”
Oddly, even though Rute had been thinking more or less the same thing the entire time, actually hearing her brother-in-law say it out loud was incredibly irritating.
So. She’d be lying if she said spite isn’t a motivator here. But it’s far from the only one! A lot of it is also that the Mansion is the first decent place to get back to her with something other than a variation on “You just don’t seem like the best fit.” And it is decent, if you look at it on paper and ignore the nature of what the Mansion actually is, which is certainly tempting whenever she’s looking at the bills.
And maybe there’s a bit of curiosity. Just maybe.
And she was told there’d be cats.
So instead of getting her phone exorcised, Rute’s response is simply:
no subject
She also told her family about the Haunted Mansion, basically as soon as she got home and Babs asked her what her job interview was for. None of them were pleased to hear about it except Tony, who only turned four like a month ago and therefore his opinion didn’t count.
“Rute,” Nelson had said, “You can’t work at a place like that.”
Oddly, even though Rute had been thinking more or less the same thing the entire time, actually hearing her brother-in-law say it out loud was incredibly irritating.
So. She’d be lying if she said spite isn’t a motivator here. But it’s far from the only one! A lot of it is also that the Mansion is the first decent place to get back to her with something other than a variation on “You just don’t seem like the best fit.” And it is decent, if you look at it on paper and ignore the nature of what the Mansion actually is, which is certainly tempting whenever she’s looking at the bills.
And maybe there’s a bit of curiosity. Just maybe.
And she was told there’d be cats.
So instead of getting her phone exorcised, Rute’s response is simply:
“When should I come in?”