How much is enough?

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When I was in high school, reading through the back log of Anita (to date myself, I was a junior when CS came out) I can remember points in the books where, if I was Anita, I would have just looked around and said "well.... bye now" and walked out of the plot.

Since I just moved and all of my books but my Anitas are in storage (no idea how that happened >.<) I've been rereading them and I realized there are actually 4 points in BO that made me stop and think that maybe, quitting to run a day care would be better. You have just as much crap to deal with, the only difference is that with day care, butt wipes tend to fix everything. There are points where Anita acts out of character simply to push the plot forward and then "reverts" back. The irony of the last 10 or so books is not lost on me.

So, I pose this question to you, when can you remember where you were scratching your head at why Anita would be such an idiotact so out of character?