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Anyway, not the most exciting week on the street, but here
we go anyway. Election day dawns in Weatherfield and the votes
are in. Fred, worried that Spider might steal Audrey's seat, so
to speak, I said, so to speak, gets confirmation from a little
man at the council who knows about such things that anyone having
spent time in prison isn't eligible to take up office. That rules
Spider out then as he's spent time in prison in the past, or so
Fred thinks. He's not quite correct though. As Spider has only
spent 14 days in prison (for sticking to his fine principles and
refusing to pay a fine) he can still hold office if he wins the
election. Sadly though, while Spider gets a whopping 842 votes
(837 of which came from me, Toyah and Aunty Em), Audrey wins the
election with 849 votes, beating Spider by a mere 7 votes. Returning
Officer - I demand a re-count! Alf confides in Fred that he didn't
vote for Audrey... meanwhile Fred confides to Alec that he's hopeful
of more than a merely professional relationship with the fragrant
lady.
Toyah is more than depressed. She's 16, just left school and
feels she's thick and on the slag heap. She moans to Ken in the
cafe and he gives her his newspaper (probably the Guardian?) to
read, telling her if she can read just one article it'll be worth
her while. But, sadly, it's too heavy going for Toyah. She blames
Janice for never taking an interest in her school work, for causing
a punch up at the only parent-teacher evening she ever attended
at Toyah's school, and for never encouraging her at school. Janice's
eyes well up with tears when she tells Toyah that's the way things
were in her day and she doesn't know any better; a good scene.
Determined to learn a little, Toyah barges in on Ken at home,
demanding that he tutor her, but he turns her away as he's just
about to settle down to dinner and the TV after a heavy day of
trying to look cool in a cardi. Eventually, Ken agrees to tutor
Toyah but she insists it's kept secret, she doesn't want her family
to know, and he agrees.
Back home from hospital, Rita is livid when she finds out that
Alec has reported McDonald and Webster to the Health and Safety
Executive as the company who fitted her faulty gas fire. While
Alec wants to become 'more than friends' with Rita, she's annoyed
at him for reporting Steve McDonald when she absolutely told him
not to. Alec wants to nail Steve though, after a spat in the Rovers
between them both, when Steve accuses Alec of being after his
grand-daughter Vicky's inheritance money himself. Alec moans to
Betty in the Rovers that he thinks he's ruined any chance of friendship
with Rita.
Hayley approaches Mike Baldwin and asks him for a job as a
machinist in the factory, but he turns her down without question.
Later, in the Rovers, Roy places a bet with Mike that if Hayley
doesn't prove she is the fastest machinist he's ever seen, that
he'll pay Mike 50 pounds. Mike considers this, raises the bet
to £100 and says if Hayley does prove to be the best, he'll
give her a job. Needless to say, she gets the job, with Mike telling
Alma "She can sew like an angel... worth two of Ida Clough!".
Hayley decides to start looking for a new place to live, closer
to the factory (and to Roy). Roy suggests she has a look at the
new flats that Steve McDonald is building, and tells her he'll
take a look with her at the weekend. Roy, bless him, advises Hayley
to "best keep well to yourself" when she starts at the
factory, worried about the lager lout, uncouth mentality of the
workforce. "I think I know more about how to be one of the
girls than you do" she replies. Quite right too.
Greg and Maxine go off for a dirty weekend (at Maxine's expense,
both financially and otherwise) but finds time away from the 4-poster
to call Sally (he hangs up when Kevin answers the phone at first).
Sally's all of a twitter over gruesome Greg, who is servicing
both Maxine and Sally by now and she agrees to meet him in his
hotel. He throws his room key on the table and off they go. Rumpeh
Pumpeh. Meanwhile, at home, Kevin nurses one of the girls who
has toothache, thinking that Sally is visiting Rita. Now, I can't
quite believe this storyline at all. I mean, only a few months
ago (about the same time it happened to me) Sally went through
the utter betrayal, despair and the nightmare of being cheated
on by someone she loved and trusted. I can't, just can't believe,
she'd now go and cheat with a bloke who already has a partner
(even if it is Maxine) without giving a thought to the other woman's
feelings. Women - we're our own worst enemies at times. Kev wants
Sally to work in the garage with him, but she's just not interested.
When your husband tries to seduce with words like "vat"
and "tax returns" and offers of passionate nights "doing
the books", it's time to move on, it really is. Looking for
something to fill in his time while on holiday from college, Nick
asks Kevin if he can work for him at the garage during the summer,
and it looks like Kevin's considering this.
Glenda ;-)
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