Basically life is passing her by with no prospects for a mate or a better paying job. Try as she might, Grace is unable to camouflage the wrinkles and any attempt at an explanation comes off as arrogance or rudeness. So when the telephone rings after her customer leaves, she knows its Mrs. Pamela Burns, the store manager. Mrs. Burns hasn't a choice but to fire Grace, since Mrs. Milton-Dennison spends nearly a million dollars a year and wants Grace gone. But Mrs. Burns can see that Grace's greatest asset can be put to good use.
Grace still has a very shapely figure and is a beauty.
Grace is taken aback as Mrs. Burns lays out the plan as to how one might accomplish ensnaring a rich, preferably Jewish, widower. She's convinced that Mrs. Burns is playing with her and can't be serious, even when Mrs. Burns admits this is how she got her current husband. Taking her generous severance check from Mrs. Burns, Grace heads home for lack of anywhere else to be. Basically Jackie has traded her body with this swatiska wearing, knife carrying, skinhead, for a month of rides to school on his motorcycle, blaming it on her mother for not buying her a car. Lying on the Couch Feeling a complete failure as a parent and a role model, Grace begins to think about Mrs. Burns' advice.