Haley: I can't have the one nice thing I've done for Mom and Dad be a disaster! Alex, um, call you please call that chef that you're dating?
Alex: That pompous weirdo? I purposely broke up with him before the holidays. If I call him now, I will be stuck with him until New Year's.
Luke: There's a school of thought it can even stretch out to Valentine's Day. Once you pass Thanksgiving, it's the Wild West.