Stupid Toy Store

Brooke d’Orsay. She is a real charmer and I don’t think I’ve seen her in anything in which she wasn’t the shining star. Everything else was mediocre. The Father and his store got my back up right away with the declaration that if it wasn’t made of wood, it wasn’t a real toy. Absolutely ridiculous. There are thousands of old-fashioned homey nostalgic toys that are made of plastic and don’t plug in or have a battery. Old fashioned board games, watercolors, crayons, etch-a-sketch, rubber balls, but no. Wood or nothing. And his store maybe had 5 toys in it! Then Dad kept passively-aggressively pressuring her and trying to guilt her into giving up a successful toy career she loved in New York City to take over his stupid store that couldn’t have cleared $20 a day in profit. On top of all that, they gave away for free Brooke’s hand-carved Santas that could have retailed for $100.00 each easily. My free enterprise and capitalistic soul was crying out in pain. Obviously, most of these Hallmark writers have never had to earn an honest day’s wage in a retail environment.

But Brooke d’Orsay has saved worse than this unworthy effort.

November 28, 2019