Caray, Caray!

• Yesterday: Rafael is aghast that he appears to have said something Vicky could construe as a proposal.
  
  Marco is aghast that Karen's uncle is Jorge's friend and could help Jorge get his hacienda unembargoed (I don't understand about this embargo). "This all could have been handled in a couple of months. I'll fix it," the nice man says kindly and firmly...
  
  ... Marco, who is going to get busted if somebody inquires into this matter, looks sick as the uncle calls Jorge and leaves a message on his answering machine saying they should get together...
  
  
• ... and it's becoming clear to Karen that Marco is far from a free man...
  
  Marco tells Karen: it would be better if her uncle did not get together with Jorge. She agrees to help with that, on the condition that he firmly break off with Ale, "and I'll know if you do!"
  
  AND he must be present at a dinner with her family the following night to be introduced formally as her boyfriend. [Looks to me like her family has more money than Ale's, why doesn't he just jump ship?] Karen calls him periodically during the day to remind him of her ultimatum.
  
  
• Ale, dressed in a camel-colored suit and matching collar, is just leaving for work when Marco arrives, ostensibly to kiss and make up, and maybe even drive her to work, but actually he's eyeing the answering machine the whole time. She is brusque and takes a taxi.
  
  Marco manages to sabotage the machine - Jorge and sis never hear the message. For safety's sake he takes them on an all-day excursion out of town to be sure they don't meet up with the helpful friend. He sadly tells them Ale seems so distant; they are charmed and promise to help him.
  
  
• On the way into morning meeting, the sales force titters watching Rafa hobble along behind Ale. They all think Rafael is making some joke behind her back, but it's really that his feet are killing him after his long, long walk back from her house to town the previous night. He covers, saying he just walked home from work.
  
  She admits to Susanna, later, that she's touched - especially by the fact that he didn't trumpet the news that he'd done her this favor; while she hasn't forgiven him, she can imagine a future in which she could. She sends the janitor over to him with some foot salve or something. He's touched.
  
  
• Marino comes to work with a fright wig over his shaven head. Everybody makes fun of it and says it will scare customers and it looks like a rat's pelt. He snarls at Medina: "You just sold one car! You'll be out of here by the end of the month."
  
  
• Uh oh, Vicky (cradling her teddy bear) is calling the priest to talk about setting a date. Her brothers and dad believe this is a real engagement.
  
  
• Two guys in a bar discuss Jorge: "He was loaded but now he's so in debt." "You're lucky he's lost his memory or he'd remember it's you who convinced him to buy all that expensive equipment he couldn't afford."
  
  Evidently something fishy happened while Jorge and his wife were out of the country on vacation...
  
  I think Enrique Quintana (the fatter one) is planning to make a play for the sister, Rosario. He doesn't think much of her, but he's sure there's money around there someplace, and "where there's money, that's where you find the dog."
  
  Some poor guy who basically lives in this bar because he used to be a weightlifter but hurt his hand, and then his wife cuckolded him, and maybe his dog got run over too, comes over to say hi.
  
  
• Ale calls another sales meeting that evening and is pleased to hear Rafa sold another car. He, however, is depressed, because he has to sell scores of cars to make up the debt he owes her. She tries to buck him up. He insists he's sure there's a great car salesman inside him; she says he better hook up with that crack salesman inside him, because the month's nearly over.
  
  Rafa discovers Moustache (Ramirez) has a huge stock of motivational books and A/V materials, and trades some of his expensive wedding booze for a "Road to Excellence" tape and a tape player.
  
  
• When Ale gets home Marco is watching TV with Rosario and Jorge, all cozy; they sing his praises. Rosario goes so far as to insinuate that Jorge has been sicker lately and only Marco is a refreshing cure for his ailments...
  
  Marco tries feebly to cheer Ale out of her blue funk, but she can't get over his forgetting their anniversary. He gets a call from Karen and hisses, "I'm working on it!" [Breaking up with Ale.]
  
  He tells Ale he has to leave, business you know, but she is evidently as frustrated as I am trying to figure out just what it is he does. She says "We don't share enough," he says, "We must get married immediately!"
  
  She says she's in no condition, he points out she hasn't made time to see the doctor. She has to schedule her operation. She says she'll see the doctor and then they can set the date. She is very unenthusiastic. He cries tears of joy (and greed) as he rushes out the door to Karen's party.
  
  
• When Rafa gets home, he finds his mother worried and annoyed to hear (from Vicky) that there is now an official engagement. He denies it, sort of. "Well she's getting it all togther - the dress, a party, mariachis... ARE you marrying her?" "Someday. I suppose." "She's obsessed. Did you make her a promise?" "They pushed me last night" "Well, I know you're less and less in love with her, and you have to tell her."
  
  
• Rafa goes to Vicky's house, and manages to say "I'll marry you, but not now - how about in three or four years?" As usual he caves in to the inexorable pressure of (1) her screeching and tears; (2) her brothers' threats and knives; he sadly and with trepidation agrees to - four months! Vicki is very happy!

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