Episode #405 "A Teacher’s Life"

Ruth and Pauline are now running the Hardback Café and are getting used to the book business. Hilton’s current concern is getting his gutters cleaned out and he’s enlisted griffin to help him out. Erica is stuck substitute teaching an earth science class and needs griffin’s help with a lesson plan. Darien arrives and informs Griffin that he’s arranged a date for him with Sheila, a beautiful flight attendant, and Griffin suggests that they have dinner that night. Luis, a student of Griffin, shows up and tells him that his dad, who doesn’t speak English, needs some help filling out some insurance forms. Griffin tells Keisha, who is with Luis, that he’s noticed that she’s been acting up lately, not paying attention in class, fighting with her friends, so if she needs someone to talk to, he’s available. Griffin suddenly has a lot of things to deal with when all he really wants to think about is his date. As he finished helping Erica, Hilton reminds him that the gutters await. Luis’ dad comes by for help with the insurance forms and Ruth, who speaks Spanish fluently, agrees to assist. Griffin happily goes upstairs to start getting ready for his date. Erica needs to run through her earth science presentation again, so she drafts Hilton to be her audience. Hilton pretends to be an obnoxious, uncooperative giving the substitute teacher a hard time. Sheila arrives, and as she and Griffin are about to go to dinner before her night flight, Keisha arrives and tells Griffin she needs to talk. Griffin takes Keisha aside to talk as Sheila follows Hilton outside and gives him a hand cleaning the gutters. Keisha tells Griffin that her family is having severe money problems (her dad can’t work because he’s recovering from bypass surgery) and they’re about to be evicted from their apartment. Sheila comes in as they are talking and tells Keisha he same thing happened to her when she was eight. Sheila and Keisha leave to continue their conversation as griffin’s hopes for a great evening with Sheila disappear. But Griffin runs into Sheila at the café the next day and is delighted when she suggests they reschedule diner for that night.