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Signs go up as Vince gets Roy down in the cafe. Unable to confront
Vince, who's eating his own sandwiches, using the facilities without paying
for anything, smoking, loitering and generally being a low-level bully,
Roy takes it to heart and gets all het up. "Don't do this... " and "Only
patrons can do that... " signs go up all over the place but Vince pays no
heed as Roy heads for a breakdown. It reminds Roy too much of being
bullied as a child and he tells Hayley he regrets not going into library
work now that this has happened in the cafe. Hayley storms over to
the builder's yard where Vince is working for Charlie and has a few words:
"Nobody has my husband holed up in our flat wishing he was a librarian! Nobody!"
This only annoys Vince and he goes back for more bullying, forcing Roy to
do a fry up and then dropping it on his shoes. After he hyperventilates
into a paper bag, Roy rings the police, it's all clearly got out of hand
and when Roy finally starts to break, in comes Charlie who throws Vince out
of the cafe and tells him he's sacked. Still beating himself up, Roy tells
Hayley he can't go on, worried that people think he's just a waste of space.
I had my own Roy Cropper moment earlier this week while squashed on a train
by some bloke who had half his obese frame and his elbow on the arm rest,
sorry - my arm rest, the arm rest that was clearly meant for the elbow
that was mine. But did I say anything? Did I move him? Oh no,
but I did compose in my head three strong letters of complaint to the train
company, a letter to the Guardian and a poem about arm rests but got stuck
when I couldn't find anything much to rhyme with fat geezer.
Anyway, Adam settles into Weatherfield teenage life, lured to taking
cups of tea with Sarah in the cafe and he tells Ken he doesn't want to
go back to school in Scotland. Nevertheless they cart him back there but
he quickly does a runner back to the cobbles and into the Barlow's.
Ashley and Claire return from les 'ooneymoon dans Paris and are surprised
to find an earring down the sofa. It's one of Audrey's, left behind as
she'd spent the night at Fred's in the spare room while the building
work was going on in her neighbour's house. Ashley's worried that
Fred's started proposing again and while Fred's glad to have his son and
daughter-in-law back home, he feels he's lost a bit of independence in
his own house. I say he feels like he's now in the way.
Jason asks Violet to move in with him, which is all well and good. Violet
agrees and moves her bags in but it all comes as a bit of a shock to Eileen
as Jason hadn't asked her. When she finally crawls off the ceiling
and finishes beating her feckless son about the head for being so inconsiderate,
Eileen tells Violet she can stay and puts another saucer of milk out for
the latest addition to the brood she's collecting.
Tommy's confused, upset and angry when he spots Craig wearing nail polish.
He's even more irate when he finds out Craig's had his tongue pierced and
there's an argument at the tea table when Tommy accuses Rosie of leading
his son astray. "Thurrup, the lorravyer" lisps Craig through a mouthful
of blood and a swollen tongue. When Tommy finds Craig's got
two tickets for a goth gig, he says he's too young and forbids him to go,
until Angela, playing Joy Division's Transmission reminds her husband of
a 15 year old Tommy who snuck out of his bedroom window to go to see gigs.
At the garage, Ian finds excuses to keep Sally back after work for a
drink, to do the books, any excuse to spend more time with her. She
tells Ian she's not interested even though he's declared undying love for
her and says she's sticking by her Kevin, the kids and the beans.
When it's clear she won't give in to his lecherous, er, leching he tells
her she'll have to go and find another job.
Elsewhere on the street this week, Charlie's got Shelley on a diet and
has paid for gym membership for them both. With a bit of luck and
some training on those dumb-bells, she'll be able to clock Charlie round
the head with a pumped-up right arm and knock him flat out any time soon.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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