Blog Love Omega Glee: Library Laughs, Mother Mutters (23 October 2012)

Francine's mother calls and the conversation goes like this:

They exchange the usual greetings.

Francine's mother berates her for not calling or visiting more often.

Francine explains that it's this kind of unpleasant encounter that leads her to not call and not visit.

Mother passes the phone to Father, who exchanges brief pleasantries and advises Francine to keep the tires on her car pumped up, then he goes back to watching a situation comedy set in a public library.

Mother tells Francine all about the situation comedy set in the library and says that her favorite character is the elderly librarian who does phone sex on the side to supplement her income and how there was this one scene where someone called up for a reference question about the best time to pick a pumpkin off the vine and the librarian thought it was one of her phone sex customers and much confusion and hilarity ensued.

Mother says that if Francine watched more television, then she'd be happier.

Francine says that she's too busy to watch television, but if Mother enjoyed it, that was fine, all the while thinking that television was a plot to distract the nation from what was really going down, man.

Mother asks if Francine's still seeing that boy.

Francine says that she is and reminds Mother that his name is Jake.

Mother asks when she can expect grandchildren.

Francine sighs and does tell Mother that Jake might move in with her, in hopes of placating Mother.

Instead, this alarms Mother, who tells Francine the old saw about the farmer not buying the cow when he can get the milk for free.

Francine thanks Mother for comparing her to an animal.

Mother tells Francine to lighten up, and mutters some stuff under her breath that Francine can't make out.

To change the subject, Francine asks about Lassiter the cat.

Mother tells her that Lassiter is fine, and, in fact, is purring in her lap at this very moment. He likes to watch the show about the library too. Mother continues on to give Francine a play by play of the current scene on the show, which involves the resident homeless man who hangs out at the library being mistaken for the library director by a sales representative for a publisher of children's books.

Francine listens politely.

Mother bursts out laughing.

Francine waits for Mother to stop laughing.

Mother tells Francine that the show is very funny and she should watch it.

Francine mutters something in response.

Mother asks whom Francine is going to vote for.

Francine says that she doesn't know.

Mother says that she's going to vote for Dick because she likes his new body and asks what Francine thinks of it.

Francine says that it's pretty weird, but she supposes it's a step up from a soft drink vending machine.

Mother asks if Francine's heard that the world is going to end in December.

Francine says that she has.

Mother asks if Francine could maybe adopt some children in November so that Mother can have grandchildren before the world ends in December.

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