Incident #10: Alice turns into a babysitter for the evening. We find her in the kitchen (where else) sitting on a stool with her shoe off rubbing her feet. No attention or concern is paid to this, like it's pretty much a normal thing. So now, even though her feet hurt, she needs to play nanny/2nd wife to the kids. Not a word of thanks or even acknowledgment about what she's about to do.
Incident #11: A suprise party is created for Bobby. I have my doubts as to how much the kids could do, so yet again is falls mainly on Alice. It wasn't anything elaborate, but she's just so sickeningly happy to go do all this effort watching the kids and then coming up with a plan for a surprise party. She's an amazing person, but no one -- including herself -- seem to realize that. She's just taken totally for granted.
Incident #12: Alice comes out of her room carrying a trophy that she announces she wants to "contribute to the family". Why the hell would she do this, and why now? Has she lost all of her pride (whatever she had left) by giving away a prized trophy? Well, it turns out that she really doesn't want it when she reveals she only won it because her "elastic broke in her gym bloomers". The trophy she has is for "modern dance" she won while still in high school - 19XX (she erased the last two digits with steel wool). In any case, it doesn't seem as though she cares all that much for the trophy, so in a courageous act of defiance, she dumps this pile of crap onto the Brady family, this unloading it from herself and probably clearing up some horizontal space. The real question is WHY is she doing this now? My best guess is that this entire "trophy" incident reminded Alice that she had this piece of crap laying around and decided to dump it on "the family".
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