Anna was running around the diner having to work the floor by herself since Luke was on the phone trying to arrange his Uncle's funeral. Lorelai and Rory walk through the door. Anna walks over to them after filling up a lady's cup.

"How is it going?" Her mother asked.

"People are infuriating. They are in a diner, not a fast food place." She yelled, glaring at Sy who was screaming for his food that Cesear just put on the counter.

"Okay." Lorelai stretches out the word.

"Sorry, Luke has been on the phone all morning and he can't serve while he's on the phone." As if proving her statement Luke walks over to give someone their order while holding on to the phone, hitting a few customers with the phone cord in the process.

"I can see that." Rory nods. They followed her to the counter. "Where should the poached eggs go?" She picked up a plate.

"Crank in the hat." Luke nods to Sy.

"Hey, I'm not a crank! You're a crank, crank!" He glares at Luke.

"He is a crank," Rory mutters under her breath as she walks over to give him his order.

"And the French toast?" Lorelai picked up a plate.

Anna grabs the plate from her. "I got it, can you get him to stay on the phone? Him wanting to do his regular work while planning the funeral is what is causing this chaos." She was manning her tables fine but Luke's one was acting like the world was ending. She had to deal with those angry customers making her customers grow impatient.

"Will do." Lorelai went to convince Luke to let them take over.

Anna made her rounds of refills. "Where's Jess?" Rory came over to ask her.

"Oh my god, I completely forgot about him. He told me he was getting dressed and would be right down. That bastard." She curses him as she goes up the stairs. When she finds the door locked, she pounds on it. "Jess, open up! I know you're in there."

"Hey babe, I locked the door because I was changing. I'm dressed now so..." He stepped out to close the door.

"Fuck off, it does not take you an hour to get dressed." She glares at his back.

"Are we going to argue or help out Luke?" He asks in mocking concern as he walks down the stairs. Anna followed close behind him, when he was on the last step she pushed him causing him to stumble into the diner.

"Well, you're very graceful." Lorelai was surprised that he came down.

"She pushed me." He pointed at his girlfriend.

"Do you have proof of that?" She tilts her head.

"I could've broken my neck." He glares.

"Could of, should of, maybe. They all don't count. Now, do something." She shoved a coffee pot into his hands, still angry that he was up there relaxing while she was down here busting her ass. She put two hands on his back to push him towards a table that needed a refill.

"Despot." He looks over his shoulder to hiss at her.

"And don't you forget it." She left him to greet the people that just sat down.


Anna was in the kitchen with Caesar, while her mom and sister were manning the floor.

Lorelai slammed her hand on the counter of the pass-through window and yelled, "Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck 'em!"

"Who told her about diner lingo?" Anna was tired of having to figure out the riddle before she could complete an order. She was happy that this one was easy. She cracked two eggs into a bowl to scramble them. When Caesar didn't answer, she looked over to see him avoiding eye contact with her. "Caesar!"

"What? I thought it would be fun." He puts a slice of bread in the toaster.

"It wasn't fun when we couldn't solve the last one." She huffs.

"Eve with a lid on." It took them a while but they were able to figure out it was apple pie.

"Why do so many of them involve Adam and Eve?" She poured the eggs into a hot pan.

"I got the Eve/apple connection but I don't know about the eggs." He shrugs.

"Maybe because they were supposed to populate the earth, so eggs are connected to Eve's ovaries." She said, making him grimace. She grabbed the toast to put the eggs on them and put the plate on the counter.

"Yo, burn one, then pass me a pink stick and throw some mud on it!" Lorelai yelled into the kitchen.

"Burn one is a burger." They had already established that. "But what is a pink stick?"

"The only pink thing we have is strawberry ice cream. I guess mud is chocolate sauce." Anna snaps her fingers when she figures it out.

"You have to admit it feels good when you figure it out." Caesar put a burger on the grill. She hummed in response. They made Kirk's order and passed it to Rory.

"A wimpy with a rose pinned on it for the boss man!" Lorelai yelled.

"No," Anna reached across to grab her hand before she could move away. "In English please."

"Turkey burger with onions. You need to study diner lingo tonight, missy." She scolds.

"You need to be checked out by a professional." She let go of her hand to get to work.

"I did, it's genetics." She winks.

"Well, now I'm terrified." Anna whines.

"Here you go. It's good that someone is going to check on him." Caesar passed Lorelai the plate. She went upstairs to give the food to Luke.

"At least we'll get a break from diner talk." She sighs in relief.

"Anna, do you know where Jess would be, he just disappeared?" Rory leaned against the window's counter to ask.

"What?" She cursed her boyfriend. "He is either at the lake reading a book, the record store, or the library. I'll get him." She took off her apron and stormed out of the diner. She checked the record store and library to find nothing. She walks to the lake to see him reading under a tree. She kicks his foot making him jump. "Jesus, you scared the shit out of me." He put a hand over his speeding heart.

"Good, that's what you get for sneaking out. Don't you feel guilty hiding out here while we're busting our asses to help Luke out?" She glares at him.

He stood up and dust himself off. "Luke is just a grumpy pushover. He doesn't even like the guy, but he is planning his funeral."

"Because his dad loved his brother and would want Luke to take care of it." She reminds him.

"That's his choice. I don't see why I have to be affected by all his decisions." He rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry which of Luke's decisions are affecting you negatively. Making the apartment bigger so you can have your own room, wanting you to go to school, making you work at the diner so you can make your own money." She listed the change Luke made in his life.

"All of those things were bothersome." He didn't like school or working in the diner and those few weeks of constant hammering were hell.

"Luke cares about you…." She was going to say that's why he pushed him to try and better himself but Jess cut her off.

"So what, because he cares I owe it to him to be who he wants me to be…. I'm not even sure we're talking about Luke right now? I think you're saying Luke when you mean I." He accused her.

"I don't want to change who you are?" She didn't know how this was getting turned on her.

"It seems like it to me." He scoffs.

"So, you're the type of person that treats people who care about you like shit. Who leaves those people in the lurch when they need him the most? That's how you're acting right now. Luke, not me, puts in a lot of effort into your guys' relationship even though he doesn't get anything back. You did all you could to push him away, but he's still here. He gave you the boundaries you wanted while supporting you any way you'll let him and you still don't appreciate him." She took a deep sigh when she felt like she was talking to a brick wall. "I need to get back to the diner, when I left it was just Rory manning the floor. Come, don't come, it doesn't matter. It's not like you do a great job when you're there anyway." She walked away.


Lorelai, Anna, and Rory slide into the Town Meeting. "Late again, are we?" Taylor looked at them in disappointment from behind the podium.

"Yes, I hope I'm not pregnant!" Lorelai looked up to the ceiling as if to pray.

"What?" He squints.

"Are these seats taken?" Lorelai asked Luke. There were two empty seats by him and one by Jess.

"Don't drag me into this." He didn't stop her from sitting next to him. Rory sat down by her mom leaving Anna to sit next to her boyfriend. He went to put his arm around her but she brushed him off.

"You have to work on your punctuality, Lorelai. I banged the meeting in half an hour ago." He held up his gravel.

"Uh, dirty!" She gasps, putting her hand up to her chest.

"I'm gonna take advantage of this unexpected pause in our proceedings to confer with Miss Patty about the next item on our agenda." He turned to talk to the legendary woman.

"Why are you here? I thought it was too Mockingbird for you." She whispers under her breath.

"Well, Corky's Country Cavalcade on public access was preempted, so I thought I'd check out the next best thing." He shrugs. She huffs at that. "You've been giving me the cold shoulder and I get it. I'm sorry, you're right. I need to put in more effort with Luke. He's trying and that more than my own dad ever did. He has to do something for Louie's funeral, so I'm coming here to support him."

She picked up his arm to put it over her shoulders. "Did I miss anything good?"

"Harry's retiring, so they make some twinkling light day." He told her.

"I'll have to write it down in my calendar." She leaned forward to talk to her family. "Did you hear about the twinkling light day?"

"Oh yeah, Luke was telling us. We should put up our lights." Rory nods.

"I'm surprised you have time to be here." Lorelai looks at Luke.

"I don't, but I haven't been able to get any of the war reenactors on the phone and I have to confirm them for Louie's funeral," Luke told them why he was making time for this.

Taylor banged his gavel to get everyone's attention. "All right now, the last order of business is a matter relating personally to me, therefore I'm going to give Miss Patty my gavel."

"Again, dirty!" Lorelai teased.

"Stop that." He pointed the gavel at her before giving it to Miss Patty. "Now don't go power-mad."

"That is the most hypocritical thing I ever heard him say." Anna snickers. Everyone seated with her agreed.

"Oh, all right, gee." She grabbed it from him and stood up. Taylor took a seat in the crowd as she took her place behind the podium. "Now the chair recognizes Taylor Doose. Taylor, you have the floor."

"Thank you, Patty." He stood up and turned towards the crowd. "My issue, ladies and gentlemen, is in the form of a grievance against this hirsute hippie who opened a produce stand in the park."

"Oh yeah, killer veggies." Babette smiled.

"Tasty." Sy, who was always grumbling, didn't have anything bad to say.

"The squash is beautiful." Miss Patty put some hair behind her ear.

"Sexy, it's sexy squash." Babette agreed.

"I don't want to know what they're doing with these vegetables," Jess whispers.

"Ew, stop." Anna shook her head to stop any mental images from coming to her.

"Didn't Babette invite you to have eggplant parmesan tomorrow?" He snickers.

"Oh god, now I'm not going to be able to eat it." She grimaced.

"Sexy or not, I demand that this man produce his permit post haste." Taylor put an end to their praises.

"Got it right here." He stood up and handed the papers to him.

"Mm-hmm, just what I thought. This is not the proper permit for this kind of business. This is a type twenty-four B, otherwise known as a cart, kiosk, cart, kiosk permit. This is not valid for your business." He holds it with one hand while slapping it with the other before passing it back to the man.

"Why'd you say it twice?" The Second Troubadour asked.

"Hmm?" Taylor hummed to ask for more clarification.

"You said cart, kiosk, cart, kiosk," Babette told him.

"It's repetitive." Lorelai nods.

"And redundant," Rory adds.

"It's repetitive," Lorelai said again for irony.

"And redundant." Rory went along with it.

"We certainly are entertaining, Mac." Lorelai put on a British accent.

"Indubitably, Tosh." Rory put the accent on as well.

"It's not redundant. It's three separate things. It's a cart, a kiosk, and a mechanical hybrid referred to as a cart-slash-kiosk, hence cart, kiosk, cart/kiosk." He explains making himself sound crazier.

"He did it again." Babette pointed out.

"He's been stressed lately. His store is deserted." Kirk told everyone the reason behind his actions.

"I'll make it simple. This is for businesses that roll in in the morning and roll out at night. Emphasis on the word roll... rolling businesses, businesses that roll." He uses the hand motion to show the rolling action.

"But I carry my tables out at night." His business wasn't there all the time.

"But you're supposed to roll them, Rapunzel, and carrying isn't rolling, is it? I mean, did anyone hear the word rolling come out of his mouth? Check the transcript, I think you'll find one word missing... rolling!" He pointed at Babette.

"Transcript?" Miss Patty narrows her eyes.

"He is always half unhinged, but now he's fully unhinged and I'm a little scared." Anna pushes Jess forward to hide behind him just in case the man picks up a chair.

"Yeah, Taylor, this isn't Charlie Rose," Lorelai told him.

"He's losing his marbles." Babette put her hand up to hide from Taylor that she was pointing at him.

"It's just a personal vendetta." Andrew felt like Taylor was abusing his power.

"His store is deserted," Kirk shouted. Anna swore a vein in Taylor's forehead was about to pop.

"I think that we should end the meeting right here, Taylor." Miss Patty didn't see this going anywhere.

"Wait for a second, wait for a second!" He pointed at the first Troubadour. "You there, when Lady Godiva here wanted to be the town troubadour over you, I stood by your side. Why aren't you backing me now?"

"Cause you left me twistin' for a long time before you did, Taylor, and it didn't feel good. I even wrote a song about the experience." He held on to his guitar.

"Oh, I heard it. It's called Taylor Left Me Twistin'." Lorelai nods.

"Oh yeah, it's really good," Rory told him.

"My personal favorite." Anna put a hand up to her chest.

"You think? Because I'm having a little trouble with the chorus." He played it and sang. "Taylor left me twistin', he set my eyes a mistin'. I'm just not sure if it has that thing, though, you know?"

"Oh, no, I love that part. I thought that maybe at the end you could do more about the sweater." Lorelai stopped talking when she saw the look Taylor was giving her like she would be the first he threw a chair at. "We'll talk."

"I'm gonna wrap this up." Miss Patty announced.

"Now, Patty, how would you feel if this guy decided to open the long-haired freak school of dance or the long-haired freak diner, Luke? Or the long-haired freak bookstore? It's not good, right?" He pointed at the other business owners in the room.

"Alright, everybody who agrees that we would not feel good about that, say aye." Miss Patty took a vote.

"Aye!" Everyone yelled.

"Meeting adjourned, goodnight." She bangs the gavel.

"Another fun one!" Lorelai shot up from her seat.

"I didn't know too much long-haired freak shaming for me." Anna got up to stretch.

"Taylor, hold on a sec!" Luke ran after him.

"Come on, you can help me clean up the diner." She pulls a pouting Jess out.


Jess is walking around the tables refilling coffees. An old woman stops him, "Young man, where's the young lady we've heard so much about who's using those delightful old diner phrases to place people's orders? It sounds so fun. Could you point her out for us?"

"No." Jess walks to the counter. "That's everyone. I'll be upstairs."

"If you don't want to work with people then you can come back here and do the preparation. It's Caesar's day off." Anna looks through the serving window.

"Being bossed around by you isn't my ideal day." He gave her his blank stare that she matched with her glare.

"Fine." He sighs going into the kitchen.

"Cut the tomatoes for the burgers." She put the tomato on the cutting board that was in front of him.

"Do you ever stop cracking the whip?" He let out a dramatic sigh.

"What can I say? Whips and chains excite me." She winks.


Luke and Lorelai walk into the diner, which is packed with people "Hi." Anna and Rory came up to them.

"What's going on?" Luke asked.

"It's kind of like a wake." Rory pointed out the obvious.

"A wake?" He didn't understand.

"Yeah, Babette came over to the house and told us to get ready for the wake that Miss Patty called her about," Anna explained.

"This wake is for Louie?" Lorelai was surprised that so many people were here when they didn't come to the funeral.

"I thought you set it up," Rory thought it was another surprise for Luke, like the reenactors showing up to the funeral.

"I didn't set it up." She shook her head.

"Well, it's going well, anyway. People brought a ton of food if you're hungry." She pointed at the counter.

"I got to take the cake out of the oven." Anna went into the kitchen. She put the strawberry cake on top of the stove to cool off.

"People have too much free time in this town. Never can get a quiet moment." Jess walks into the kitchen to get away from the crowd.

"If you didn't want them here then why did you set this up?" She put her hands on her hips and arch an eyebrow.

"What are you talking about?" He arches an eyebrow back at her.

"I didn't set this up, neither did my mom or Rory. So let's leave one person with access to the keys to this place." Anna pointed at him.

"Look, the crazy ballet teacher called and asked when Luke was getting back from the funeral if I could unlock the door. I came down, I unlocked the door, then went back upstairs and went back to sleep." Jess wasn't about to let anyone think he was growing fond of Luke or this town.

"That's how it starts. One day you're opening the door, the next you're attending town meetings like they're your church." She couldn't stop the big smile from growing on her face.

"Don't even." He shook his head.

"I should sign us up to be the couple in the Firelight Festival." Anna clapped.

"What?" He squints.

"We could play the couple that found this town. We'll use the stars to meet at the gazebo and kiss. The town cheers. It's a big honor to get picked. There is a lot of competition but, I think we will be a shoo-in if you keep this up." She wrapped her arms around his waist.

"I will break up with you if you do that." He glares. She giggled as she got on her tippy toes to kiss him.