The Grayson family, pictured above two weeks before Mr. Grayson lost his job at the factory, was looking forward to their upcoming trip to Orlando. Said Timmy, 6 (pictured right):
"Momma said we were goin' cuz Mickey's waitin' for us. She said she sent him a letter and said we're real excited and we got our shorts all packed up and stuff and now Momma says the only way we're goin' is if she started hookin' on the streets again but I don't know if Daddy liked that too much because he took away her Aquanet and lipstick and hid it in the basement and I know Mommy hates the basement."
Mrs. Grayson, seated nearby, laughed uncomfortably. "Oh, Timmy," she said through her teeth, "Mommy was kidding. Besides, Daddy didn't hide Aquanet from Mommy. How do you think I got my bangs to look so nice this morning, Timmy? Timmy, doesn't Mommy look nice? Daddy didn't hide Mommy's Aquanet, did you Daddy?"
Mrs. Grayson looked over her shoulder at Mr. Grayson, seated at the kitchen table and staring out the window.
Later, Timmy confessed that he is not very impressed by his parents' plan to visit the Disney Store at the North Hills Mall instead, but he concedes that he is excited to stop at the Dairy Queen on the way. "Mommy loves to stop at the Dairy Queen on the way to the mall because she says she needs something cold to eat before walking around so much but I don't know about that because she likes to get ice cream on the way home, too, but then she says she likes to cool down after getting so worked up but she never really walks very much anyway because a real fat lady fell on Mommy's leg at the rollerskating rink in Coon Rapids when Mommy was rounding a corner and now her ankle hurts but she says it was worth it because she got to rollerskate to Pat Benatar."
