Shirley and Diana go to Manhattan.
Shirley and Diana had decided to take a holiday to Manhattan. Shirley had to call her employers and ask for the week off. She cleaned house for a young family who lived nearby and who both worked. She terrorised their children by insisting (in a hiss sometimes) that they must clean alongside her. Diana just disappeared from her job. She was a drinker and constantly out of work, shifting from waitress jobs to factory work to cleaning to the government handout. She would ask Shirley when they got back if she could sleep at hers while she got back on her feet.
They arrived in the city late in December, the snow was falling and it was so cold that they were happy. Shirley bought two tickets for the ice skating rink out front of the Rockefeller centre. Diana couldn’t remember the last time she had so much fun. Normally it’s me top that’s saturated on a Saturday night, she screamed. If Shirley had been home she would have been embarrassed, but in a new city, it seemed lascivious, and that wasn’t all bad.
Diana was a tall blond. Actually Diana was a mid height brunette but through an irregular dye job and some stratospheric wedges, she was a tall blonde. She was glamorous and leggy and this made her regal. It allowed her, she felt, to get away with the occasional crass statement, just a little something to keep people guessing, she thought. Diana swore like a trooper and everyone knew exactly who she had slept with in the past year.
