Rooster(on the phone with Carole): Mom, I need your help! I told Jake I’d make dinner for him tonight! Carole: Oh, sweetie, calm down…Just order the food well enough in advance so it’s delivered before Jake gets there, but not so far ahead that it’s cold by the time he arrives. Plate it nicely, and hide all the food wrappers and to-go containers in the garbage and recycling, so he never sees them. Rooster:…Mom, I meant could you give me an actual recipe… Carole: Trust me, sweetie. This is how you do the first home-cooked meal-date. The first time I made a picnic lunch for your daddy and me, I told him I prepared it using my grandma’s fried chicken recipe. Rooster: And…? Carole: Sweetie, Colonel Sanders is not my grandma.










