The Perfect Night
December, 2004
Surely, it's the oldest trick in the book. Man cooks dinner for woman, thinking he'll be rewarded for his toil and that he'll have her for dessert. But it's such an old trick, it's practically a lost art. In our office alone, tales of failure abound. One guy lops off his thumb and loses it in the folds of his lasagna. Another guy ignores his date the entire evening as he crashes around the kitchen, tenser than the trout he's got in the oven as he wades through the snowdrifts of flour he's spille...
