Black Monday on Showtime, was having dinner with a man when his sister called. This was about 20 years ago when we were less attached to our phones, when our phones were just phones, not cameras and computers and maps of the world, so he sent her to voicemail.
The date was going fine, good enough for Rannells to invite him over after dinner, but nothing remarkable enough to warrant a chapter in his memoir.
Or rather, it shouldn't have until he finally checked his phone and discovered that his father had fallen and was now in a coma.
He had to process the news while figuring out how to also navigate his date, the almost-stranger still in his apartment. The night became a turning point for Rannells.