{"id":143,"date":"2009-01-10T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:21:02","slug":"the-unexpected-disapearance-of-betty-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/the-unexpected-disapearance-of-betty-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"4. The Unexpected disapearance of &quot;Betty Jane.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:31,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kaybuena.com\\\/images\\\/20090108BettyJaneMondayPantie888x1096.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230619180431\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.kaybuena.com\\\/images\\\/20090108BettyJaneMondayPantie888x1096.jpg&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 06:32:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-13 06:23:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-26 13:53:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-05 10:33:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-13 07:08:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 07:40:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27 04:38:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 22:39:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 11:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 13:14:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 09:31:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 04:43:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 02:22:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 05:41:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 10:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 03:44:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 12:09:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 06:26:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:27:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 13:02:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 22:21:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 17:55:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 17:55:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just as I was going to brag about how pretty &#8220;Betty Jane&#8221; looks, \u00a0<em>now <\/em>that her wig\u00a0 is all new and nice, her &#8220;make-up&#8221; updated, and her new eyelashes\u00a0make that crazy serious stare go away&#8230; She&#8217;s\u00a0all\u00a0better and those long missingeyelashes\u00a0on where she lost them in that long ago explosion,\u00a0were also replaced\u00a0\u00a0adding to her whole new look.\u00a0 Now, instead of a serious detective and companion, she simply looks like an old\u00a0&#8220;tart&#8221;, or a woman of ill repute..\u00a0 I was trying to tone it\u00a0 down, only now I\u00a0 think I waited too \u00a0long to please her.\u00a0 I was, just sort of telling you of how I might have really acted in my usual &#8220;make-believe&#8221;, silly story\u00a0manner (an act not with out\u00a0 it&#8217;s own problem&#8217;s, here in this&#8217; happy orderly&#8217;, ranch\u00a0of\u00a0 the rude, residence of \u00a0the Ageing Asperger&#8217;s Anonymous (that would be me,\u00a0 and the whole crowd (betty Jane included) though all these things are true and good to talk about;\u00a0 &#8220;<strong><em>Betty Jane&#8221;, it seems, done left the building<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have searched high and low for her.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s gone, solid gone.\u00a0 And when<strong>, I say <\/strong>I did the<strong> total inspection <\/strong>of all of our houses &#8220;areas, in which a 12&#8221; tall doll could\u00a0 &#8220;hide&#8221; or be hidden; I mean just that.\u00a0 All have been noticed and I am not pleased with my findings, however there could be some tye-in with\u00a0 the local happenings out side my juresdiction, such as\u00a0 there always are.\u00a0 My\u00a0complete shock about what was a really a bee&#8217;s nest of worries, plus the lost of my old role model Betty Jane, topped off\u00a0 by the\u00a0Global news, Wall Street&#8217;s inability to get back to a mid-line &#8220;irrational exuberance &#8221; as it should be to better reflecting business, &#8216;stead of rumour,\u00a0\u00a0All these things put together are \u00a0literally&#8212;too much.\u00a0 Must have been\u00a0that way for Betty Jane too, and with the additional &#8216;old tart&#8217; attack on her person, it must have been the last straw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear reader, Don&#8217;t think of me as being nuts enough to really live an existence in which the doll\u00a0<br \/>\nwas really\u00a0speaking to me or anything resembleing 2 sick minds at work&#8230;but she was\u00a0not furniture. She was a doll of a different sort.\u00a0 \u00a0 All of\u00a0her antics where allot more exciting than the\u00a0 average life-term of a doll&#8217;s reach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Someone mentioned her being with the Government Bureaucracy,\u00a0 the <em>Witness Protecton\u00a0Agency<\/em>\u00a0where they took her under another name to Williamsburg, Virginia for a fresh start,\u00a0\u00a0or a clean leave&#8211;\u00a0 this could be an\u00a0indication of her willing need for a change.\u00a0\u00a0 I could see how this would be a good thing,\u00a0 until she can prove she can focus and take action on her own, like the &#8216;old days&#8217; with me, as someone else&#8217;s doll (\u00a0and work her way into someone else&#8217;s web-blog).\u00a0 But how ever you look at the facts,\u00a0she is not\u00a0 here in my house staring this screen down, or taunting the cats, as she should be.\u00a0 \u00a0I searched through absolutely every thing we&#8217;ve got.\u00a0 I did a really thourogh examination of all our house&#8217;s storage area&#8217;s\u00a0 (except-in the computer area&#8217;s, &#8211;hmmm&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;perhap&#8217;s I better check out this one little situation over here; <strong>OH&lt; NO&gt;OH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Betty Jane&#8217;s\u00a0 Monday Underpanties<\/strong>. Check this out\u00a0,youse, it&#8217;s all that&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/images\/20090108BettyJaneMondayPantie888x1096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Betty Jane's Monday Panties\" src=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/images\/20090108BettyJaneMondayPantie222x274.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Jane's Monday Panties\" width=\"222\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just as I was going to brag about how pretty &#8220;Betty Jane&#8221; looks, \u00a0now that her wig\u00a0 is all new and nice, her &#8220;make-up&#8221; updated, and her new eyelashes\u00a0make that crazy serious stare go away&#8230; She&#8217;s\u00a0all\u00a0better and those long missingeyelashes\u00a0on where she lost them in that long ago explosion,\u00a0were also replaced\u00a0\u00a0adding to her whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-betty-jane-chronicles","category-true-and-unusual-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R4qt-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/betty-jane-gets-a-make-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":143,"position":0},"title":"3. 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