The spaghetti-night double act; sickly, jobless, and near Discharge

texture · ~9 Nov YDAU (habitual)

• When: recurring on spaghetti nights; the job-loss/Discharge jeopardy is the scene's present, ~9 Nov YDAU.
• What: By this stretch Glynn is "still woozy and infirm" from the Comp accident, "constantly sickly," and — having lost his menial job at Brighton Fence & Wire and not even pretending to look for another — is expected to be Discharged for it. Meanwhile he and Wade McDade run their standing bit on Gately's hour-boiled spaghetti: "McDade comes into the living room right before chow and goes 'Some of that extra-fine spay-ghetti tonight, Doonster,' and Doony Glynn goes 'Ooo, will it be all lovely and soft?'" — McDade orders him to "Leave your teeth at home, boy" in a Kentucky-sheriff voice and leads him to the table by the hand as if Glynn were a damaged child, always timed for while the anxious cook is still in the kitchen.