Sunday Corrie Comments, May 16 -20

Still on me holidays....

Wherein Stapegate and plot holes become a farce of epic proportions.

Just when you thought it couldn't get more convoluted, it does! Stape is twisting and turning, avoiding having to shag Charlotte and keep Fiz from finding out he didn't resign and the fact that Colin wants his identity back because he's got a job in a bookshop. Colin is rightly angry. He's been thumped by the husband of the woman he was getting off with because Fiz told that he was working in a bookshop, and he just wants rid of the whole situation and blackmail sounds like a good plan, too. Charlotte is of course, eager to help. 

When that plan doesn't work, he starts screaming at John and .... drops dead!!! What does John do? No, he doesn't call the ambulance because it would all come out wouldn't it? No not really. Colin is Colin and having him legitimately dead would solve John's problems. The school would think he's dead, so Fiz would be happy. But  you know, he doesn't think of that, he figures they have to hide the body so they wrap it in a rug that was in the attic (leftover from John's Granny's house, the one where he stashed Rosie), put the body in a wheely bin and put it in the convenient pit that is in Underworld, ready for it to be cemented over in the morning. Where have we seen that plot device before? The pit, not the wheely bin.

Anyway, now it's all too real for Charlotte. Not so much exciting anymore! It was quite funny, actually, almost Keystone Cops! Fiz in the front door, John, Charlotte and the rug out the back, Norris in the ginnel and Rita stroking the carpet and Charlotte locking her keys in the boot! To top it all off, Fiz reminds John it's bin day tomorrow and he wearily says he's already put it out. LOL! I'm telling you, i was weak!


The morning after, they have to lie and say they're looking for a cat that John and Fiz have been minding for Charlotte. I reckon Schmeichel ate it! Fiz is starting to catch on that something's up but John has told that many lies now that he is in knots. I don't know how he keeps it all straight! Even for a seasoned liar, this is gold medal olympic! After all....he only wanted to teach! (Be careful what you wish for!) They never managed to rescue the body and it's now cemented over. I fail to believe that a whole crew of workers would not notice a red patterned roll of carpet in the pit before that cement truck filled it in. It's not a bottomless pit after all but it is "Miracle Dry" cement that has dried and set seemingly in hours. 

And again, John is telling Liz in the pub that he's got the day off. Again.... Why? If it's summer holidays and the kids aren't in school, do they make the teachers stay all summer? If so, he should have been able to submit his resignation letter in person rather than by post (which, of course, he didn't end up doing).

Why are the workers wondering when the old Factory will be finished? Owen already promised them a 6 week date.

Hayley looked the least like a happy, glowing bride in the salon with Mary fussing and the salon girls bickering. Mary's ministrations are really starting to overwhelm Hayley and she's going to snap pretty soon. I can't believe Mary assumed she'd be the matron of honour in addition to the planner. Oh wait. Mary. Yes i do believe it! Sian and Sophie are hoping to go to a festival, the one that Ryan wanted to take Sian to. Doesn't look like they'll be allowed. Not sure i'd let kids that aren't quite 16 go on their own either. They're determined, though and hatch a plan to pretend to go to Sian's mums in Stockport. This isn't going to end well.

Chesney has turned 16 ahead of Sophie and gets a party at Roy and Hayley's cafe. Not quite the rave up most 16 year olds would prefer but maybe meeting Izzy's sister, Katy made up for it. You could almost see the cupid arrows zinging our Ches when he laid eyes on the young lass. If Owen is protective about Izzy, he'll probably be twice as protective about his baby and catching them having a joyride in Izzy's wheelchair isn't going to make the best first impression! I still don't believe that nobody realized the punch was spiked. Roy is pretty innocent as is Hayley but Fiz is a seasoned drinker and would most definitely recognize the taste if not the symptoms. Vodka might not have a particular aroma or taste but you can certainly tell if there's a lot in a punch. Chesney's now buying a car/van that he can't even drive! Talk about money to burn!

Sean's busted and loses his job but thanks to Michelle putting his case forward, Liz goes all mushy and understanding and gives it him back again and even calls Violet herself. Seems to have worked and now Vi is going to let Sean see his little boy!!

Lewis is working both sides of the street, with Audrey and with Deirdre in the betting shop. They're off to Greece to scope out potential places to buy and Deirdre is pea green with envy, sourly predicting the "loved up" couple will not last 10 minutes and seething when Ken thinks they make a lovely couple. They do, actually, under other circumstances.

Cheryl is trying to work out how to be a single mum with no job. Her kid wants the moon and she can only afford the pebbles and won't take any money from Lloyd. Rightly so.  There's always a job going near the Street and she ends up in the kebab shop, 20 feet from Lloyd's flat. And now the unemployed estranged husband, Chris, has also got a job on the building crew so he'll be lurking on street corners watching her and Lloyd. Tyrone and Molly are moving ahead with their plans to move away. Kevin offered Tyrone 15 thousand for his half of the business but I can't believe that in this day and age it would be worth that little. A garage that seems to be a going concern? Even if Ty isn't a 50% partner, he'd surely be due more than that.

Sunita says she wanted the posh house and hated it when she got it but Dev figures that's because he wasn't there. She thinks he was being self centred and he is but you know? He's right. She did get the house but her marraige blew up in her face at the same time. No wonder it holds bad memories.