Doris has a date with a French movie star, but learns her sons have volunteered her to umpire their baseball game that afternoon.

Because it would take away from his weekend social time, Ron asks Doris to go on assignment - what would be her first writing assignment - to cover Duke Farentino in the deserted mining town of Silver Gulch, he who is training there for the…

A computer error leads to efficiency expert Mr. Jarvis insisting that Doris has never paid her electricity bill, which leads to unexpected problems.

While on a flight to Florida, Doris tries to comfort the passenger in the seat next to her, who is deathly afraid of flying. Things don't work out as she planned, however, when the passenger winds up hijacking the airplane to Cuba.