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Gail's rather worried and more than a bit jealous about Hayley's
friendship with Sarah Lou. She warns Hayley off, telling Martin
her interest in Sarah Lou is unhealthy but later apologises, and
rightly so. Martin's got other things on his mind as he rings
his nubile on his mobile from the Rovers as Gail nips to the ladies.
Martin ends up fighting Jerry away from Rebecca after he takes
exception to her filing for divorce, forcing Rebecca to think
about moving out of the nurse's home and into her own flat. Not
able to afford much on her nurse's salary, Martin offers to chip
in with the rent money.
Lip-smacking, smooth-talking, brandy-drinking Dev chats up
Debs in the corner shop and next thing you know, the pair of them
are back from a night out together, with tongues down each other's
throats. As dejected Duggie looks on, the pair of them go into
Debs' house for some rumpeh-pumpeh. Next morning, Nat calls round
to see Debs, amazed to find Dev there too, but she bursts Debs'
bubble later in the day when she tells her that she overheard
Dev telling all and sundry (well, Aunty Maya and Steve McDonald)
that Debs 'wasn't wife material'. Debs is down in the dumps until
Nat calls her to say Duggie is in the Rovers, alone, so she pops
round, buys him a drink and accepts a dinner date offer. Blinkin-eck
- does this woman bother wearing any knickers?
With blue neon flashing 'taxi', Streetcars opens for business.
Jez has Steve over a barrel, forcing him to use the cabs for drug
deliveries and bringing in his own driver. Innocent to all the
Jez nonsense, Vikram is as keen as mustard in his first business
venture, and you have to feel sorry for him, you really do. Other
new ventures on the Street aren't doing so well, with Danny and
Sally moaning about poor sales at D&S Hardware. "We might
be losing money, but at least we're together" says Sally,
rather stupidly, I thought.
Ashley asks Spider and Toyah round for a veggie meal chez Peacock,
but Maxine's not too keen, asking him: "What kind of music
do hippies listen to?" Anyhow, the meal goes okay until Fred
turns up to see the 'turnip twosome' and Ashley fools him into
eating veggie cheese on toast. (Fred: "Poisoned!") Returning
the hospitality, Max and Ashley go round to the bedsit for a real
veggie meal with Spider and Toyah, and their friends Pip and Wilf.
Maxine's (over)dressed up to the nines in a pink frock and cardi.
"Don't take this the wrong way but you look like a doll I
used to have", Pip tells her. Pip and Wilf are a bit, you
know, opinionated and heated arguments over butchery and vegetarianism,
capitalism and feminism ensue. Maxine storms out, yanking Ashley
out after her.
Gwen's finished the decorating at Jim's place and it looks,
well... it looks like she's been to B&Q and bought some cheap
and nasty wallpaper, contrasting of course, with the dado rail
around the middle of the room. It yelled tacky to me but I'm a
plain walls sort of girl, so what do I know? Jim tells her that
his uncle John in Ireland has passed away so he'll have to go
there to pay his respects and get drunk. Leaving Gwen alone with
a store credit card? Bad move, matey.
Linda persuades Mike to put a performance related pay scheme
into place in the factory. The girls aren't sure what to do but
Hayley seems sure it's a good deal for them all, getting paid
for the amount of work they do must only be a good thing, surely?
They all assume it's Mike's idea so when Linda tells Janice it
was she who thought it up, Janice has a go at her over putting
her own interests first, now she's management and no longer one
of the girls. But what does Linda care? Mike's given her a gold
credit card (she's keeping it close to her heart - under her bra
strap!) with instructions to use it to buy whatever she likes.
And it doesn't stop there, the old romantic has just gone and
arranged a horse and carriage for the day of their marriage.
Things are progressing nicely for Curly when Emma calls to
see him one morning, well, she's passing by, like. Curly asks
her "Do you want to... " "Yes" she replies,
without even waiting for the question. Ah, bless. Anyhow she pops
round there later as Curly cooks dinner and confides in her about
Raquel and Alice. The evening ends with a snog for the pair of
them. Lovely.
Jack gets a new job, as a lollipop man. Vera isn't too happy
when she finds out, worried about his heart. But, she's more likely
to be worried about his wallet now that she's found out he'll
be working on the new pedestrian crossing outside of the betting
shop.
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