Carpool Confidential (2007)
“I told Randy on the phone.“Cassie”—I could practically hear her shaking her head— “you have way too much to deal with in your own life. You have to get yourself out of it.”She was right, I knew it, but somehow I couldn’t seem to actually take steps to disentangle myself. So when Ken called to set up our first meeting, I agreed to meet with him after Thanksgiving. Agreeing to one meeting didn’t mean I couldn’t still disengage, I told myself. And by then maybe I’d have my life back. Because Thank...sgiving, I told myself, would be the compass that would point my way forward.Which, depending on how you look at it, is a lot of pressure to put on a day that revolves around a dead, tasteless bird.Thanksgiving with my family is, well…Let’s just say the fake one photographed for the spread in Gourmet after which my father threw the (property of the magazine) carving knife into the wall and left for good doesn’t automatically receive top billing as the worst. Over the years I’ve come to think of it like a raw hot dog—something best left unexamined and untasted unless there are no earthly alternatives.“It’ll be fun,”MoreLess
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