Lorraine:
[about Jennifer] I don't like her, Marty. Any girl who just calls up a boy is just asking for trouble.
Linda:
Oh, Mom, there's nothing wrong with calling a boy.
Lorraine:
I think it's terrible! Girls chasing boys. When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy.
Linda:
Then how am I supposed to ever meet anybody?
Lorraine:
Well, it will just happen, like the way I met your father.
Linda:
That was so stupid! Grandpa hit him with the car.
Lorraine:
[wistfully] It was meant to be. Anyway, if Grandpa hadn't hit him, then none of you would have been born.
Linda:
Yeah, well, I still don't understand what Dad was doing in the middle of the street.
Lorraine:
What was it, George? Birdwatching?
George:
What, Lorraine? What?
Lorraine:
Anyway, your Grandpa hit him with the car, and brought him into the house. He seemed so helpless, like a little lost puppy. And my heart just went out to him.
Linda:
Yeah, Mom, we know. You've told us this story a million times. You felt sorry for him, so you decided to go with him to the Fish Under the Sea dance.
Lorraine:
No, no, it was the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Our first date. I'll never forget it. It was the night of that terrible thunderstorm, remember, George? [George wasn't listening to what Lorraine was saying] Your father kissed me for the very first time on that dance floor. And...and it was then that I realized...that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him.
