Mrs. Patterson is given the "pleasure" of having Daria read to her. She remarks on what a pretty girl Brittany is right off the top, which does not immediately put her on Daria's good side, especially when she assumes that there's no possibility that Daria and Brittany could be friends.

She claims to enjoy birthday cards with poetry in them, though she is less enthusiastic about the dark, violent poetry that Daria chooses to read to her.