Sorry guys, it's time for another Kadoober off the wall clump of ideas.
Sometimes weird little details get stuck in my head and I don't know why and then some small idea starts forming around it - and here is one of those:
When the OG story first came out, and it came out that she went there because JH had gotten her a $10 gift card to OG for Vday I thought 'what the heck is she going to do with that?'
I mean, it's possible you can get soup and salad for one for $10 bucks, but she has no income of her own and has two kids to care for, right?
Maybe JH only had $10 to offer, and something was better than nothing. I don't know. Maybe he thought she'd take 'someone else' and he didn't want to finance that. Doesn't matter - what I would be interested in is EG's reaction to receiving a $10 gift card to a restaurant where a meal for 3, even if two are small, would be a good deal more than $10.
Was she pissed? Did they fight about that? Did she leave Lucas home because Dad didn't send her enough to cover his meal?
Interesting thoughts. I believe the OG gift card was $15.00 but still not really enough to cover 1 imo. I wonder if OG sells gift cards in certain increments. Also, imo she left Lucas home because he was failing and she had been abusing him and didn't want anyone to see. Plus taking a hurt child who is maybe a little whiny from the pain she inflicted wouldn't be fun. Throw in there that maybe she was meeting someone for XYZ reasons and she didn't want Lucas to be able to tell about it. I can think of a multitude of reasons she maybe left him home alone. I highly doubt it was the first time either.