Carl and Harriette need a break! What better way then send the kids off to some sleep-overs’ and head out for a night on the town? But wait, the kids aren’t the only ones that cramp Carl and Harriette’s style – there is Harriette’s widowed sister Rachel. Her husband has been dead for a year and half now and she’s avoiding the dating scene and tagging along with the Winslow’s. After spoiling their dinner and a movie date Carl snaps on Rachel “Rachel you gotta start dating again you’re driving us nuts!” Harriette and Carl suggest “Alan” an upstanding bolt in the Church Choir that has asked Rachel out several times but she has always politely declined. He phones again and with some nudging along from Harriette she agrees to a date. Alan arrives to the house on date night and is forced to be entertained by Carl, Eddie and Laura while Rachel drags her feet on what to wear. Carl put his foot in his mouth a few times with comments about Doctors (Alan is one) and when he tries to brag about his pull at the restaurant Chez Josephine (Alan’s family owns it); Eddie offers up some magic tricks but fails miserably when he can’t guess Alan’s card after at least seven guesses. Rachel changes through her entire wardrobe in order to stall, she’s too nervous about dating again – leave it to Estelle to give Rachel the patented Winslow ‘heart to heart’ as no one in the house can better relate to being a widow. Estelle alludes to some sordid affairs in her past and that gives Rachel the confidence to move on and head out on the date with Alan. The chapter ends with Rachel arriving back from the date and Carl being denied any juicy details.
LESSON: Just have your 15 year old son or elderly Mother watch the kids and go out whenever you want.
HARRIETTE LOVES CARL:
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