Putting the book down, Samantha thought, "I have a job. You need to be able to work, or at least to find something meaningful in life." It said, "Women, you have been crippled by society via your education and peer pressure. It was a common refrain she'd heard from her mother, family and friends- "just get married and you'll be set for life!"īut this book argued differently.
Samantha read through it that night, fascinated. Patricia found it among her things and gave it to Samantha. Maybe you're better off not getting married?" "You know, there's this new book out now, and it says so many women don't like being housewives.
"Is that why you haven't found anyone? Because your co-workers were scared of you?" "Gloria said he was being a pig as usual and anyway, he deserved so much more." "Apparently I punched out their boss! Can you even imagine?" One night, they were chatting, and Samantha brought up how the men in her previous department were afraid of her. She was starting as a secretary at a different company, and it made Samantha think of the early days when she'd just moved in with Gloria. The one who best fit with her was a short-haired young woman just out of college named Patricia. So she put out ads looking for a new roommate. She made more now, but still not enough to afford this place by herself. Now, with Gloria gone on her honeymoon and her part of the apartment empty, Samantha did some budgeting. Samantha was actually admitted as a designer ahead of Gloria and she wondered if it was because her department wanted to see her gone.
Both Gloria and Samantha had gotten into the design training program at their company and passed, with flying colors. By now, Gloria had gotten married to that man she said she'd gone on a double date with Samantha that one time and moved out. Maybe she could go into the design program after all, go into a different department where she could find men who were more like her equals, and hopefully, more interesting. What was left? Go into dirty and disgusting bars? Go to one of the churches her mother was forever suggesting for her? People like Gloria or her friends or that college roommate her junior year of college or that girl her senior year of high school were all far more interesting than any man she had met.īut the men at work were afraid of her, so there was no hope for her to find a man there now. Confidence being a nice look on her? What on earth did Gloria mean by that? If she looked confident, would that mean attracting a man at last? Her mother was getting on her case about never finding a man, but Samantha couldn't help it- none of them seemed interesting. That confidence was a nice look on you."Īt home, Samantha stared at herself in the mirror. Anyway, I hope you'll join me in the design program. I'm telling you, I don't remember anything." "How did I miss all that? Maybe you're right and Buddy hit me too. In a hushed whisper, to escape the head secretary's glares, Gloria rehashed what'd happened over the last few days.
"What's going on? I don't remember the last few days." Samantha found her roommate, Gloria, at lunchtime on a smoke break. It was quite the shock to go to work that morning and find that all of her male co-workers were afraid of her. Quantum Leap Week, Day 4: Favorite One-Off Character
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