TEXT: 3.22 - Those are Strings, Pinocchio OPEN IN TOWN SQUARE [The troubadour starts playing a song. Lorelai and Rory push past him with large backpacks on their backs] RORY: Coming through! Heavy packs. LORELAI: Out of our way, peace boy! No offense, love the song. Carry on. Go. [Lorelai and Rory walk into Luke's Diner] LORELAI: Ugh. And wuss patrol, halt. [they drop their backpacks on the floor] RORY: I've never known such pain. LORELAI: We are so not walking around Europe with those annoying things on our backs. RORY: But we're backpacking through Europe. How're we gonna do this without backpacks? LORELAI: But all the time we've talked about backpacking, I never actually pictured us with backpacks. RORY: Well, what were you picturing? LORELAI: Spry, accommodating European men with neat mustaches trailing after us, carrying our luggage, hailing taxi cabs, constantly reminding us how beautiful we are. RORY: No, it's just the two of us humping our backpacks around. LORELAI: Well, at least my new walking shoes are all broken in. If you count broken skin, broken toes. [Luke walks over] LUKE: Don't do that. LORELAI: Don't do what? LUKE: Don't take your shoes off. This is a restaurant. LORELAI: I don't see a "No shirt, no shoes, no service" sign. LUKE: It's right here, don't do that. RORY: We're in pain, Luke. LUKE: But it's great that you guys are bearing it so nobly. And can you move these? RORY: Can? No. LORELAI: Would if we could? Debatable. [Luke moves the backpacks out of the way] LORELAI: Look at that. RORY: Spry and accommodating. LORELAI: Hey, would you
SUMMARY:
Rory finally learns her mother can't afford to buy the Dragonfly Inn since financial aid for Yale didn't come through. She decides to take matters into her own hands with a quick visit to her grandparents right before graduation. Luke has second thoughts about a trip with Nicole after something Lorelai tells him. Jess makes silent contact with Rory after her graduation ceremony from Chilton.