William Schallert: Wesley Hodges

Quotes 

• Bootsie : I know people. I've owned and operated my own beauty shop for twenty-six years. I'm a successful businesswoman.

  Wesley Hodges : [seated at the kitchen table, the two women standing on either side of him]  Then why don't you help out your daughter-in-law?

  Bootsie : Because I don't have two cents!

  Millicent Torkelson : Bootsie's beauty shop is two sinks and a hair dryer in a little room behind her kitchen.

  Bootsie : It's small, but it's legitimate.

  Millicent Torkelson : I got a legitimate business, too.

  Bootsie : [getting snippy]  And what is the name of your legitimate business?

  Millicent Torkelson : I don't have a name yet.

  Wesley Hodges : Ladies, if you'll excuse me, I don't believe I could be more uncomfortable.

  [he gets up to leave] 

  Bootsie : You sit down, Hodges.

  [he obediently sits back down] 

  Wesley Hodges : Perhaps I could.