It's morning time at Myrtle's Home, as Myrtle sits on her porch, as Mitzi sits next to her, as they drink coffee, and go through their mail, as Myrtle tells Mitzi, holding two envelopes "Well it's time to go to the river." Mitzi goes through her mail, as she sighs "Bills Bills Bills." Myrtle quips "Yeah, mine have went to hell since Regina and Ted moved in here." Sarah pulls into the driveway, as Myrtle yells "Sarah!" Mitzi looks at Myrtle, as Sarah tells her Mother "Well Mama, I did what you asked, here it is." Sarah pulls an application out for Pancake King, as Myrtle asks her Daughter "Are they hiring?" Mitzi asks "Pancake King Myrtle? Regina?" Myrtle quips "She'd fit in well there, and out of my hair." Sarah quips "They're hiring, always open, and always hiring. It'd be perfect for Regina." Mitzi asks Myrtle and Sarah "Has she ever held a job before?" Myrtle laughs "Only in alimony Mitzi. All those divorces, money, and then broke, and marries again, one worse than the last." Sarah sarcastically answers "And now she can't do better than Ted." Myrtle quips "Age hasn't been kind to her, like it has to us." Regina meanwhile walks outside, as Mitzi tells Myrtle and Sarah "I'm going to cook Johnny breakfast before he goes to sleep for work tonight." Regina watches Mitzi, as she asks her Mother "So are all of you out here talking about me again Mama?" Myrtle holds up the electric bill, and asks her Oldest Daughter "Do you know what's in this?" Regina responds "A bill Mama?" Myrtle nods, and answers "Right. And do you know how much it is Regina?" Regina is silent as Myrtle yells "$500.00! You and that damn wino in there have sent my bills through the roof, and if you and Ted are going to stay here, you better get a damn job!" Regina looks over to Sarah, and asks "Well does Sarah pay rent?" Myrtle tells Regina "She does help me, unlike you. Every morning.." Regina sighs "I'm just a housewife that takes care of her Husband." Sarah looks away, as she laughs to herself, as Myrtle responds "You are a snake that's waiting on Mama to die because she thinks she's inheriting my home, and her parents money! And that's not the case!" Regina yells "Ted doesn't want me to work Mama!" Myrtle gets up, and boldly tells Regina "Ted Jones can go to hell and so can you!" Sarah hands the application to Regina, as Regina goes "Pancake King?" That diner at the state line?" Myrtle asks with a mischievous smile "Would you like to stay with Mommy?" Regina responds "We have nowhere else to go." Myrtle tells her Daughter "Under the overpass will be your next place if you don't get your ass moving." Regina whines, and Myrtle snaps "And since you're dressed, get down there now. I am going to start packing your things today." Regina huffs "Fine!", and heads to her car, as she sighs "Damn you Sarah." Regina pulls out of the driveway, as Myrtle looks at Sarah, and smiles, as Sarah asks her Mother "Are you hiding something from me?" Myrtle laughs "She doesn't know it, but Mitzi and I went down there already, and Regina's actually going in for training." Sarah walks inside, as she laughs, and Myrtle yells into the den, where Ted's asleep "Get up and go to your second home! You're too damn drunk to look at!" Ted wakes up slowly, as Myrtle picks up Ted's shirt and pants, and throws them to him, and walks with Sarah into the kitchen, as Myrtle quips "She's got night shift, and we have the house to ourselves."
As afternoon comes turns into evening, Myrtle and Sarah returns from the casino, as Regina asks her Mother and Sister "Where the hell have the two of you been?" Myrtle quips "Looking for husbands. We went to the river for a little while. Mama got her check." Sarah sighs "And the little shit wins again." Regina yawns "Ted's gone, and I have to head into work shortly. They work you to death at that sleaze pool." Myrtle goes "Pancake King's a great place. Jimmy and I went often, and when I walk through the door, all the waitresses come to my table and treat me like a Queen." Sarah tells her Sister sarcastically "And you'll meet men. This may be the first time in recorded history you're actually tired from standing up and moving around." Regina snaps "Don't start with me Sarah." Myrtle quips, as she heads into the kitchen "And while Regina's working, I'm having a party." Regina snaps "And you're raising hell about bills?" Myrtle walks over to the cabinet, as she pulls out some cigar boxes, and hands Sarah some money, and tells her "Get me some vodka. The good stuff." Regina snaps at her Mother "You are a damn hypocrite. You gripe about Teddy and I all the time, and tonight you're drinking?" Myrtle, pulling out cards, dice, and walking around the kitchen, mumbles "I know how to keep my legs shut when drinking. My mouth too." Regina snaps "You are really getting on my nerves. I could put you in a home you know?" Myrtle turns around, and tells Regina "And I could put you in a sanitarium. Now since you're in uniform, go on to work and leave me the hell alone." Regina asks "And what about Ted?" Myrtle laughs "I'll tell him where you are. Bye Regina." Regina storms out, as Myrtle walks over to the phone, and calls Mitzi, and Alberta, telling both "Tonight I'm having a party. Come over here. Regina has to work." Both agree, and a few minutes later, Sarah returns, as Myrtle tells her Daughter "It's going to be a great evening with what I have in mind." Sarah looks at her Mother, as she takes the vodka to the refrigerator, and reminds Sarah "I only drink at special occasions, and Regina working, means tonight I drink."
As night's fallen, at Pancake King, down the road at State Line and 435, Regina waits on a table, as she tells them "Welcome to Pancake King, want any appetizers?" Another table yells "Hey what about us?" Regina smiles, and snarls "In a minute!" The cook walks over, as he tells Regina "For a woman your age I'd think you'd know this trade from the looks of you." Regina snaps "And what the hell do you mean by that?" The cook laughs "You look like the Queen of the lizard people, and if you play right, you can make huge tips. Trust that." Regina tells the cook "Take care of these people and let me freshen my makeup." Regina runs to the bathroom, as a drunken Ted walks inside, and another waitress asks Ted "Ted Jones. The bar is full, want a table?" Ted, fuming slurs "I want to see my damn Wife!" Regina runs out of the bathroom, and her eyes widen, as Ted sits at a table and tells his Wife "You belong at home! Protecting me from your Mother and her crazy ass friends and your family." Regina asks "What do you mean?" At Myrtle's Home, the vodka bottle's being passed around, along with Orange Juice, as Myrtle, Sarah, Mitzi, Alberta, and Sarah's Granddaughter, Amelia sits at the kitchen table, as Amelia tells her Grandmother "I feel like I could be back with Ward Jr than being here." Myrtle tells her Great-Granddaughter, as she's got a buzz "We needed a DD for later." Alberta reminds Amelia as she too is buzzed "Ward Jr may be home, but your future Father In Law didn't want you there." Sarah, the only one besides her Granddaughter who's sober, as Mitzi yells "Let's all talk about sex!" Sarah looks over at Amelia, and says with relief "Sweetie. We have our hands full." Myrtle yells "Jimmy and I had sex every day, as soon as dinner was finished after the kids moved out. He was a good boy." Mitzi laughs "Boyd and loved to play in each room in the house after our kids grew up and moved out before Johnny moved in." Alberta quips with a grin "Got some before I came over, and he told Amelia to drive me here because..." Myrtle looks over at her Great-Granddaughter, and asks "So have you.." Amelia, embarrassed goes "Grandma!!" Alberta covers Amelia's mouth, and whispers "I know you and my Son have, but kept quiet." Sarah rolls her eyes at Amelia, as Sarah tells her Granddaughter "I just hope you are using protection. I'm not ready to be a Great-Grandma!" Myrtle yells "Me either." Mitzi slurs "You'd be a Great Great Grandmother.." Myrtle yells "I know Mitzi! And I am done sending money gifts and shit." Sarah looks around, as Myrtle, Mitzi, and Alberta finishes off the vodka, and Myrtle looks around, and tells everyone "Let's go spying." Alberta slurs "Regina and Pancake King? Damn I want to see that. Regina whatever the hell her last name, working." Mitzi sighs "I need to stock up on aspirin." Sarah has a look of dread, as does Amelia, as Sarah tells Amelia "You take Alberta, and I'll drive Mama and Aunt Mitzi." Myrtle, Mitzi, and Alberta heads outside, and Amelia tells Sarah "MaMa, I've never seen Aunt Mitzi drunk before, or Grandma and Alberta. They are crazy!" Sarah puts her hand on her Granddaughter's shoulder, and smiles "They are, and I'm not very crazy that you lied to me." Amelia responds "I've used protection." Sarah responds "Let's take care of the party, and we'll discuss this at a later time sweetie." Amelia and Alberta gets into Amelia's car, as Myrtle sits in her Buick, and Sarah tells her Mother "Move over!" Myrtle sighs "Damn I wanted to hot rod." Sarah pulls out of the driveway, and Amelia follows, as the caravan heads to Pancake King.
Back at Pancake King, the diner's full of patrons, as Ted sits at the bar, and yells at Regina, in a drunken tone "Hey I told you to go home!" Regina yells back at her Husband "If you want a damn home, drink that coffee and shut the hell up!" One patron yells at Regina "We don't come here for that!" Regina yells "I've had a damn enough of you too! Meanwhile in the parking lot, Sarah pulls up, as Myrtle and Mitzi sits in the back seat, as both of them are passed out, and Amelia pulls up besides her Grandmother, as Alberta's awake, and tells Amelia "Let's go inside." Sarah walks over, and sighs "Well it looks like two of the gang's out." Alberta looks inside Myrtle's Buick, and laughs, as she sobers "That was fun. I have no doubt the two of them had a great time." Sarah quips "No doubt they did. They look like little kids on a road trip." Alberta looks through the window at Pancake King, and sees Regina throwing a tantrum, as Ted yells, and Sarah sighs "Well I think I would have preferred staying home and listening to Mama talk about sex." Alberta laughs "I had fun, and we bought that house. Moving in in a few weeks." Alberta looks at Amelia, and tells her "Just take me through a drive thru, and take me home. I have seen enough..." Alberta, Sarah, and Amelia turn, as the manager pulls into the parking lot in a fury, and Sarah tells her Granddaughter "I'll visit you soon Amelia." Amelia sighs "And that talk." Sarah hugs her Granddaughter, and responds "I just want you to be careful." Amelia and Alberta leaves, as Alberta tells Amelia "Looks like someone's about to get fired." Sarah meanwhile drives her Mother and Mitzi back home, and Myrtle wakes, as she asks her Daughter "I thought we were going to see Regina?" Sarah responds "She had her hands full." Back at Pancake King, the manager walks inside, as she yells "Two damn cars just left and I think it's because of you Regina Jones!" Regina asks "Was it a Buick?" The manager looks over at Ted, and yells "And you can't be babysitting your Husband working in MY restaurant! You're fired!" Regina takes her apron off, and yells "And take this and stick it up your ass!" Regina and Ted leaves, as Regina tells her Husband "You can sleep on the floor!"
A week later, Regina sits in the den, as she drinks a beer, as it's morning, and Sarah walks down, and asks her Sister "So how's things going dear Sister? Enjoying your job?" Regina responds "Luckily Mama talked that bitch of a manager into keeping me on. Where is Mama?" Sarah responds "She and Mitzi went for their morning stroll at the mall." Ted walks into the den, as he's ready to go to the Veteran's Club, and asks his Wife "So are you going to quit?" Regina defiantly responds "No! I actually enjoy working there. I fit in, and made a few friends." Sarah asks "Male or Female?" Ted listens, as Regina responds "None of either of your's business!" Myrtle and Mitzi meanwhile walks inside, as they return home, and Myrtle tells Regina "Mama did you a favor this morning and stopped in at Pancake King, and heard such nice things. I'm impressed." Regina smiles for a moment, as Myrtle holds an envelope, and Regina asks her Mother "Is that the mail?" Myrtle responds "No Regina. It's your first check." Regina walks up into the living room, as she tells her Mother "So are you going to let me see it?" Myrtle puts the check in her purse, and quips "I had the manager sign it to me, and now I have bills to pay, but don't worry, breakfast's on me." Mitzi walks out of the kitchen, as she tells Sarah, Regina, and Ted "We got some pancakes." Regina rolls her eyes, as Myrtle smiles, and reminds Regina "If you want to stay with me, you have to pay." Myrtle looks at Ted, and tells him "Now it's your turn." Ted walks out, as he mumbles to himself, and Myrtle, Sarah, and Mitzi walks into the kitchen, as they have breakfast, as Regina sighs "I'm tired of pancakes."
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