(After Rory confesses she did a load of laundry without asking Lorelai)
LORELAI: I’m crushed. I’m bleeding. Get me a tourniquet. Oh, no, they’re dirty ’cause Rory wouldn’t wash them with her stuff.
A tourniquet is a device used to control blood flow after an injury. Tourniquets have been especially used on battlefields.
Lorelai’s pretense at suffering deep emotional pain will soon be replaced by genuine emotional pain.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 
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