nine times out of ten , for whatever reason , this would involve a drop off at lake spent wick with james as the cargo ( his parents might stay for dinner , though usually not , given dinah jamess dreadful cooking ) ( apparently scotts own clueless mother and father never realized the likelihood of richard and rebecca scott staying for dinner exponentially increased if pizza delivery was proposed ) , and then his family driving back down to cincy to drop him james off a number of days later .