Marti generally sounded annoyed by anything that wasn’t about Marti, which made her a perfect mean girl attack dog for the rest of us. Any time someone started to question why the Pumpkins did things a certain way, we’d just point Marti at them and run in the opposite direction. After she was done stripping the flesh from their bones with her tongue—metaphorically speaking, anyway; she wasn’t a real flesh-stripper, not like Angie from Junior Varsity—they were generally way more willing to tolerate the rest of us being a little odd.
