CIM and Carrie are in bed having sex while she keeps her bra on, and she tells us that once they got back together, it seemed like nothing had happened to break us apart. Until the phone rings and the machine picks it up, and Big leaves a smarmy message telling Carrie that he's back in town and to give him a call. Carrie doesnt know what to say, and CIM just keeps going at it like he didnt care about the call.
Carrie and the girls are having breakfast, and she tells them about the Big call. They ask her what happened after Big left the message, and she tells them they kept making love, which impresses the girls, and Samantha tells her, Honey, hes a keeper! Because a relationship is all about keeping a dick hard. Charlotte asks if they talked about it after they finished up, but Carrie tells her they just went to sleep, and in the morning she found CIM sleeping on the other side of the bed, which upsets her because they usually sleep snuggled up together and she gets in his little nook. Now she's worried that CIM will think that every time the phone rings, it's Big looking to start affair number two, and she comes to the conclusion that they cant start fresh and she has to talk to CIM about Big. Samantha tells her, No one wants to hear about their lovers' past lovers. What happened was in the past. Leave it there. Except for when their lovers past lover was also a current lover at the same time. Their breakfasts are served, and Charlotte changes the subject. She tells them that she's going to quit working, which stuns the girls. Charlotte defensively announces that she has been driving herself crazy decorating the apartment and trying to get pregnant, and she wonders what the gallery has done for her lately, and Trey suggested she quit. Miranda gets all annoyed that Trey wanted Charlotte to quit, and Carrie reminds Charlotte that she loves her job. Charlotte agrees, but feels there is so much more she can do with her life, like be a mother, take cooking classes, volunteer at Treys hospital raising money for the pediatric AIDS wing, and glaze bowls at the Color Me Mine pottery place. Carrie thinks the cooking classes and AIDS fundraising are good, but tells Charlotte that if she saw her at Color Me Mine glazing a bowl, she would ignore her. Samantha and Miranda just look down at their food and smirk. Charlotte then tells them again that she is quitting, but not very convincingly.
Carrie is sitting on her bed with her laptop and wondering if there is some sort of surgical procedure to take away all the bad memories and keep the good memories, and she blathers on about people forgiving and forgetting and finally asks her laptop, Can you really ever forgive if you cant forget? When your past keeps leaving messages on your answering machine, I think it would be a little hard to forget it.
Carrie tells us that there are some things Samantha finds unforgivable, and stealing a cab is one of them. We see Samantha in a big pink pantsuit hailing a cab, and it stops, but it doesnt stop anywhere near her, and as she is trekking down the street to get to the cab, some guy runs over and jumps into the car. She yells to the guy that that was her cab, and he just yells sorry! as the car drives away. He doesnt get very far down the street because of a red light, so Samantha pops a Mentos, the Freshmaker, and decides to run over to the cab and jump in, reclaiming the cab that really didnt look like hers to begin with. She gives the driver her address and tells the guy, I hope you enjoy the ride!
And boy, does he! They end up on a bed somewhere, with Samantha still wearing her bra and riding him like a mechanical bull. Are the girls having a boob strike or something? What is the deal with them having sex while wearing their bras?
Carrie rolls over in bed to find that CIM is way over on the edge of the bed farthest away from her, and she tells us she was even farther from the nook. She moves over to him and rolls him onto his back so she can burrow her way into his nook, and he looks at the clock and tells her he has to get up to go work out. She tells him he doesnt have to get up yet, and he asks her, Do you want me to get all soft again? She tells him she liked him soft, and he says, Well, Nicole didnt. Okay, not really. As he starts to get out of bed, she asks for a kiss, but he suggests that she brush her teeth and then leaves; Carrie wonders what the hell is happening. What is happening is that she's getting the royal diss, used by many an eighth-grader.
Carrie tells us, Speaking of not forgetting Charlotte calls Miranda as Miranda is getting out of the shower, and tells her she thinks Miranda was being judgmental to her at the coffee shop. Miranda doesnt know what to say, and it upsets Charlotte. As Charlotte weaves in and out between people painting her apartment, she starts babbling about the womens movement and how quitting her job is her choice. Miranda adopts a very patronizing voice and tells Charlotte, This isnt about me. This is your stuffmaybe if you have a problem about quitting your job you should take it up with your husband. Which makes Charlotte turn into a raving lunatic about Miranda being judgmental and how she is going to be a good mother and cure AIDS, to which Miranda tells her that she shouldnt be too upset if she only ends up with a pretty ceramic mug with Treys name on it. She then tells Charlotte that she is going to hang up, and Charlotte tells her that she's starting to interview girls to take her job, and she needs Miranda to stand behind her choice. Miranda tells her to stand behind her own choice, and Charlotte starts yelling, I choose my choice! over and over as Miranda hangs up on her. When Miranda starts to dry her hair with a towel, she hurts her neck. Was karma hiding in the towel?