Incident #29: For some reason, the entire family less Alice and Mike (hmmmmmm?) all go to the grocery store. But when they come home with exciting news they do two things. First, they don't tell Alice a thing and make her look the fool (yet again) for trying to figure out what they're talking about. You see, she's lead on over and over again that she's "part of the family", but when Big News comes in, no one gives a shit about her -- almost like she's not there. Almost. Why do I say this? Because she IS there to grab all the groceries (well, five out of the eight) and put them on the table. See? She's only there when she's needed. She really isn't part of the family, so no one considers that she'd like to hear the good news. All they give her is riddles:
- Marcia says, "I've just got call <unintelligible> and tell her the good news!"
- Carol says, "You won't believe, it's crazy! Wait 'til I tell Mike!"
- Jan says, "Alice! Did you hear about it?"
Peter finally spills it, but that's she gets from him -- no other explanation as to the details. Then Cindy strikes the final blow by telling Alice "We're going to do a commercial for a funny man who looks through his hands!" So it's just a riddle on top of a riddle! Oh Alice, why can't you see the terrible things they do to you! I weep for you because you're unable to see what's right in front of your face! Everyone just rushes by her like she's invisible yet somehow able to grab the bags of groceries. And guess who gets to put it all away?
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