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All's Well With Boswell

Album: Gold Audio 08: Beyond Expectations

Episode: 125

Lesson/Theme: Responsibility.

Bible Verse: Luke 16:10-12

Characters: Whit, Tom

Writer: Phil Lollar

Sound Designer: Bob Luttrell

Original Air Date: August 25, 1990

Last Air Date: June 24, 2008

Description:
Robyn Jacobs has gotten her first baby-sitting job-only, instead of a baby, she's sitting with Mrs. Fishbine's cat. Boswell is a huge feline, and Mrs. Fishbine thinks the world of him. However, she is a stern parent: Robyn must make certain that Boswell eats three solid meals during the day. Boswell also can't go outside (because he's recovering from a cold), and he must stay off the furniture. Robyn agrees to make Boswell behave, and Mrs. Fishbine leaves. Almost immediately, the trouble starts. As Robyn prepares Boswell's breakfast in the kitchen, Boswell knocks over and breaks a small glass ballerina in the living room. Robyn realizes that she can replace the figurine with a duplicate from Greenblatt's department store. She phones Jessie and tells her to pick up the figurine and bring it to Mrs. Fishbine's house. Jessie does, and that's when the trouble really begins. Thanks to a series of circumstances, Boswell ends up outside, Robyn and Jessie chase after him, and they all end up in a locked furniture van on its way to Connellsville! Eventually, Robyn and Jessie get out of the van in Connellsville and see Tom Riley, who is delivering a load of apples. They sneak into the back of his truck and make it back to Odyssey and Mrs. Fishbine's house just in the nick of time. But Boswell gets in the last word as he knocks the new glass ballerina from the mantle. Mrs. Fishbine reprimands her cat for breaking it again. We can guess that Robyn will never cat-sit again.

Questions:
Do you think Robyn's problems with Boswell were due to lack of responsibility or to bad circumstances? Explain. How could Robyn have better handled the catastrophes of her day? Should Robyn have told Mrs. Fishbine everything that happened? Would you? Why or why not?