by Brent Kellogg Brent's morning
coffee courtesy of Speeder &
Earls, Burlington, VT.
June 2, 2008
It's almost like a stolen election. The people vote
one way and if the courts don't like the outcome
they rule that the vote didn't count. So if you're
feeling pissed off, join the club.
After months of spewing hate, plotting and
belly-aching, breaking laws, nearly causing a death
and going so far as to poison themselves, Jack
Abbott and Gloria Bardwell have kissed and made up.
Isn't that sweet? Can you imagine how much money it
cost Jack? It would seem the Genoa City Athletic
Supporter Hotel doesn't charge anywhere near what it
cost to stay at the old Genoa City Hotel, you know,
the one where Lauren Baldwin used to have an entire
floor at her disposal, the moving in and out of the
Abbott mansion alone must have cost him a bundle.
After using his decoder ring today, Jack figured out
it was Gloria who donated a few million to the
charities Cassie's Challenge and the John Abbott
Foundation and he melts before her like hot cheese?
What is Cassie's Challenge? Who benefits from a
charity the sole purpose of which is to caution
teenagers not to drink and drive? Does it help DUI
victims?
Established to give the downtrodden equal
opportunities, who has yet to benefit from the
Abbott Foundation? How far can $7 million go? Wasn't
that the amount Gloria gave?
Poor, murderous bitch she is, Jack offers Gloria the
Abbott pool house for as long as she wants
rent-free? Does it still reek of smoke from the fire
Diane Jenkins set? Remember that Diane eventually
confessed to setting the blaze, the D.A., Glenn
Richards vowed to have her indicted, but that she
never was?
How generous of Jack to say that should he, or his
sluttish wife, and her troubled son - who at one
point was afraid to live at the mansion with Gloria
there - want to swim they can always change into
their suits at the main house. Can you envision
these people wearing suits that have been hanging
all winter on a hook in the pool house? Jack didn't
need a suit when he jumped bare ass into the pool
with a naked Jill Abbott with his then alive daddy
looking through the window.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know what
happens next. Assuming Gloria will move in, because
Jeff Bardwell said today she needs to be "close" to
the dead Abbott, it won't be long until she's
spending most of her time in the main house driving
Jack and his family crazy and hiding cameras with
which to spy on them.
In fact, if you replace the name Jenkins with
Bardwell, the story is the same one. The plots, the
characters, are interchangeable.
Don't expect either that Gloria will be serving
lattes for long. A woman used to being waited on.
Gloria's job at the Jitter Joint will be short lived
now that Jill has been overruled. She had no right
to fire Gloria from Jabot Cosmetics and to spite
her, I'm expecting Nikki Chow will be calling Gloria
any day now to say she has her job back.
So here we are; back at square one. Gloria bounces
back. She does not pay for what she did to Emma
Gibson. She does not report to the police that
someone stole her diamonds. Her ambulance-chasing
son suspects Jeff switched the diamonds with fakes,
but oh well, 'dems the breaks.
