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Charli tells Emma she's pregnant and although Emma's disappointed
that Charli doesn't want to keep the unborn, she's supportive
of her friend. Charli doesn't want anyone else to find out, not
Matt, not Curly, not anyone, so why on earth she tells Maxine
I'll never know. She tells Max to keep schtum about her being
a mum but the implications for Max and Matt are too huge for Mrs
Peacock not to crow about this.
Fiz is desperate to put her undies on show but after Mike threatened
her with a P45 last week, she's not sure how she's going to get
her work noticed. As luck would have it, there's another buyer
at Underworld who spies Fiz's frillies and bangs in a big order.
At first Mike is aghast then realises he can make big money so
he offers Fiz a contract. "You give me permission to manufacture
your designs," he tells Fiz, "And I'll give you £500."
Fiz's face lights up and you just know that she's thinking: "Mek
it £500 and a big bag of chips and you're on". It doesn't
take long for the factory girls to realise Mike's ripped Fiz off
after Emily points out profit margins on knickers (the bottom
line's about 40%). But when Fiz complains to Mike, he sacks her
right then. Not content to take this lying down, Fiz takes Emily's
advice to "face the oppressor with the unexpected" and
mounts a protest from the garage roof (ah, the spirit of Spider
lives on). Dressed in her frillies and armed with a loud hailer,
she shouts out her demands to Mike in front of a crowd which includes
a hack and a snapper from the Gazette. All the blokes from the
Rovers are stood standing there also after word went round the
bar that a big lass, about 17, was showing her knockers. But to
Fiz this is serious; she wants her job back and a proper contract.
When Mike refuses to budge, she does what she knows will get her
into the papers and rips off her top, proving that she really
has got a lot of front. It's too much for Tyrone, he's hugely
embarrassed and tells Fiz they're through. But later in the Rovers
she has the last laugh when Tyrone has a change of heart and tries
to win her back. "I've got ambition, me", she says.
"I'll always be stood on roofs and you'll always have your
feet on the ground." Sometimes Corrie is simply pure poetry.
After the event, Mike grudgingly admits he likes Fiz's pluck and
reinstates her at the factory with a better contract for the undies.
Anyway, the hack and the snapper are at it again when Sarah
Lou mounts a protest of her own about the closure of the crËche.
Curly's there with baby Ben and some woman's turned up with her
two kids, Kylie and Robbie, but apart from that there's not much
interest in the protest until the hack finds out just how young
Sarah is. "15 eh? And the baby's nearly two, eh? Give us
a big smile then darlin', go on."
Steve and Vik run into problems when Streetcars are reported
to the licensing committee for malpractice. Steve's convinced
it's Hazel's husband but I guessed ages ago the perpetrator was
closer to home. Steve storms off to the Town Hall to find out
what's really going on and it appears Bobbi, sorry, someone anonymous,
has reported Streetcars' drivers for sexual harassment. "What,
like that stuff you get in offices?" asks Eileen.
There was also some wonderful dialogue this week, particularly
between Blanche, Emily and Betty; throwaway lines that meant nothing
and didn't progress the story any further, but were particularly
welcomed, warm and funny. My pen could have captured the words
to put in the update but sometimes with Corrie, to sit back and
savour it is the only way to enjoy it.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
Written by Glenda
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