Wayward adults and cute kids

With one or two exceptions, everybody was on the verge of getting demoted or fired. Even the ones whose job performance smileys were perfect. The only reason I could come up with is that, when I'm not looking, they're skipping work. I did find one or two skipping work when I played their households. It may be related to that glitch I've been getting lately where they queue up a task and instantly cancel it, in an endless loop so they end up doing nothing. I saw a lot of that happening too. It's a funny glitch. It comes and goes.

None of the babysitters would go home, either. That was actually pretty funny, and I left the Walker's babysitter there because he at least was taking good care of the baby while everybody else went to bed. He also mopped up the puddle from the broken sink and put away the dinner leftovers.

I went around slapping wrists, sending them to work if I found them playing hooky, taking away the novels they keep slipping into their backpacks, and making doubly sure they only have skill books to read.

I set aging on normal now that the baby boom is over. I snuck in a few last toddler screenshots before they all age up.

 

The park is haunted. That ghost who lives in Rachel's house has begun hanging out there and may never go home. He loves it there. I don't know if I like the new ghosts who can stay out in the day time. It makes it less of a novelty to have a playable ghost.

 

This guy looks like he was young and cute when he died. He seems very happy.

Tyler finished up the job of teaching Carter to walk.

 

I wanted one nice shot of Stephenie Townsend before she aged. I've never seen anybody actually build anything with the blocks before.

 

I had to spend at least a few minutes with each person while they were at work, to try to to get them to work harder or suck up to the boss, or whatever I thought might get them out of trouble.

Menuchah was so engrossed in talking to William on the phone that she never noticed when the hamburger she was cooking caught fire.

 

 

Good thing she had a fire alarm.

 

The fireman was pretty ticked off at her, but she seems to be secretly amused.

 

 

Not terribly perturbed, she went right ahead and prepared her lunch. A nice safe fruit and cheese plate this time.

The counter and stove were ruined, but the paper towels were untouched.

I don't know whether they were protesting engagments, diamond rings, or what, but Tyler, Rachel, and Max were all in on it. If the signs had had wedding rings on them instead of engagement rings, I'd feel a little guilty, since I'm the one who made Max and Rachel get married.

 

That Egyptian tourist is still in town. Menuchah played welcome wagon and engaged him in conversation about gardening. Stephenie had to get out of the house to read a novel, because I had taken them all away.

 

Then it was Lexie's turn. She got to hear an Egyptian folk song. The guy on the bench behind them is only dressed like a tourist. He actually lives in town. His wife is the one who knocked over Sam's trash can.

 

I know crowd shots are never very successful or very interesting, but I wanted to check on the protest rally again. I think I spotted just about all of our sims who weren't at work at the time, plus the ghost! Ronnie is standing off to the side pretending to ignore them. Maybe he's afraid he'll get in trouble at work if he gets involved.

 

Turns out he was just working up his nerve to chat up the pretty girl.

 

 

I'd intended to play until the toddlers aged up into children, but the game began to do that thing where it slows down to 2 frames per second. No exaggeration - I checked. I'll post kid pics next time.