Daily Dialogue — October 9, 2016

Wayne: I was knocking on a lot of doors looking for you. Yours was ajar.
April: Come in. How’s it going?
Wayne: No foreseeable problems. I was just about to check your turkey myself, then I thought since it’s yours, perhaps you’d prefer to do the checking.

Wayne checks out April’s ass.

April: Okay.
Wayne: I certainly could do it for you. And will if you’d like. I didn’t want to presume…
April [continues cooking]: It’s fine, whatever.

Wayne vamping.

Wayne: It’s a common misconception that you can just stick a turkey in the oven. A turkey needs to be tended to, it needs to be cared for lovingly. One must pay close attention to poultry.
April: Sure.

Wayne moves closer.

Wayne: So much can go wrong. Turkey can burn in places, overcooked, undercooked which is a health hazard. And what about basting — 
April [interrupts him]: Wayne, I’ll be up in a second, okay?

He leans toward her.

Wayne: A second’s up.

She turns around. Forces a smile.

April: Just give me a minute.

He backs away, then pulls out his pocket watch.

Wayne: Tick tock.

He exits.

April: Tick tock.

— Pieces of April (2003), written by Peter Hedges

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cooking, suggested by Katha.

Trivia: One of the inspirations for the movie came from a story Peter Hedges had heard about a group of young adults who had “borrowed” an apartment so they could celebrate their first Thanksgiving in Manhattan together. The oven in the apartment did not work so they had to go door to door in the building, trying to find an oven in which to cook their turkey.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Many movies have cooks who know what they’re doing. Not April. But that fits the tenor of this movie.