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Hayley goes back to work at the factory and thinks she should
tell the girls the truth about why she was sacked. Both Mike and
Alma advise her to keep quiet, with Mike warning "....these
aren't Guardian readers you know, they're going to think you're
a weirdo, just a bloke in a frock". In the Rovers, Hayley
plucks up the courage to tell Janice and Ida the truth about her
past. Audrey bursts in on their conversation, making Hayley realise
that these back-street Weatherfield women wouldn't understand
what she's been through, and decides to keep quiet after all.
Vera's still wondering what Alec is up to, spending all his
time away from the Rovers. She's convinced there's plans afoot
for him and Rita to buy the Rovers, casting her and Jack out onto
the street. Jack, Vera and Alec have a meeting in the back room
at the Rovers and Vera tells Alec he's being paid less this month
due to the fact he's spent most of his time helping out in the
Kabin when he should have been working behind the bar. Alec isn't
best pleased and storms out in a huff. He's not in the best of
moods anyway, having just proposed to Rita (again) only to be
turned down (again). Jack advises Vera to apologise to Alec, which
she does, blaming the situation on "women's troubles"
(the only trouble women have, Vera, is men), and she gives him
the rest of the wages he's owed Anyway, Alec tells Vera he'll
be happy to receive the rest of the £20,000 that she and
Jack need to buy him out of the Rovers.
Sally does her knicker party in the back room of the Rovers.
As is usual with a group of women and a few bottles of cheap plonk,
the talk turns saucy. Janice admits that the closest she and Les
ever came to joining the Mile High Club was when they did it on
the top deck of the No8 bus, when it was parked in the station!
Maxine bores everyone to tears with tales of her sex life with
Greg and of course, Sally is incensed to hear about it. Greg and
Sally chat in the Rovers about the knicker party and I just about
threw up when Sally asked Greg to "de-brief" her. Greg
comes up with an idea. If Sally were to convince Kevin that he
was still in love with Natalie, then that would leave Sally, guilt-free,
to be with Greg. This plan doesn't entirely work, but still, by
the end of this week, Kevin has had enough and has packed his
bags and left, after Sally refuses to sign the bank loan document.
Before he leaves, Kevin takes a photo of the girls with him. Mind
you, a photo of the back of the girls' heads might have been more
appropriate for him to remember his kids, as that's the only camera
angle we see them at these days, leaving the table and running
out of shot. (Even so, little Sophie must surely win an award
as the cutest child on TV right now). So, this leaves Sally and
Greg free to run amok with each other's hormones for the time
being until Greg can get his hands on her dosh.
Toyah, bless her, gets a rejection letter from "Only 16"
magazine after sending in her second article. Now, anyone who
has ever received a rejection letter from a magazine, a publisher,
or even a nasty note from the milkman, will know the pain involved.
Mind you, Toyah takes it to heart just a tad too much when she
rings the magazine, pretending to be from an animal liberation
activist thing and tells them she's planted a bomb in their offices.
The police call round to see Les and Janice later and they're
horrified to hear their Toyah has been making hoax phone calls.
Les gets Toyah a laptop computer from his mate Charlie, but Toyah
is so depressed she tells Les she doesn't want the computer, telling
Les ...it was probably stolen anyway". "Don't talk to
your dad like that" shouts Janice. "He's not my dad"
she replies, and storms off to her room, only to come down later
when Janice demands to talk to her daughter. Toyah tells her about
the rejected article and has a bit cry about being thick, and
that. Quite a touching scene.
At Freshco (previously Firman's), Curly is all a twitter when
he hears that Mr Freshco himself (call me Al, Al Freshco) might
be in the store, working undercover pretending to be a customer.
So, when Alma finds a Yank customer, they assume it's the new
boss and give him the works, an accompanied tour around the store,
the offer of a lift home etc. Obviously, it's not the new boss,
just a very bemused American person, tickled pink to think he's
met a true British eccentric in the form of Curly Watts. Anyway,
Curly gets to meet his new area manager for Freshco - and it's
none other than the ice lady psychopath, Anne Malone. Alma doesn't
understand why Curly is so upset about having Anne as his boss
until he reminds Alma that it was Anne who harassed Curly and
then got him into trouble for harassing her. So, he has that to
deal with, then Anne springs on Curly the fact that under her
new fascist regime, some of his staff, including Alma, have to
be made redundant and poor Curly is the one who has to sack them.
Something's not quite right about Anne though, she still has that
maniacal gleam in her eyes, and when she tells Curly about her
lovely boyfriend, Simon the Solicitor who she's going to have
lots of babies with, you know she's probably still a tatey short
on her plate, and still not quite the full picnic.
Anyway, that's it for this week.
Glenda :-)
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