You know when you read an upcoming storyline for Corrie that makes your heart sink? That's just what's happened to me when I read in the Daily Star that Coronation Street are planning to get the soap OAPS doped up on hash in an "hilarious new storyline".
The Star says we'll see Sylvia and Dennis get stoned after munching on space cakes laced with cannabis. Sylvia will start her
own "drug gang" made up of friends who want to use cannabis to ease the
aches and pains of old age. But Sylvia's rumbled when son Roy accidentally sells the space cakes to Norris and Rita.
Hang on. Hang on. Haven't we been here before? Yes, of course we bleeding well have. I know some Corrie fans won't remember or be too young to recall, but Corrie has done the same sort of storyline before. Rita, Emily and Norris all got stoned in Roy's Rolls after tucking into space cakes cooked up by Vera after she took a liking to hippy Maz O’Louglin’'s hash cakes down on the allotment.
A show insider quotes to the Star about this new storyline: “If this doesn’t have viewers in stitches, then I don't know what will."
I'm laughing inside already, I really am. Would have been good to have seen Gail getting high, with Eileen perhaps. The two of them coming out with some home truths and finally admitting they actually like, nay, love each other.
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