Hope y'all like this... we began writing it while still in the car <g> and, yes, *still* in Virginia...

In case you haven't seen, the story behind this story is found here: http://www.lcficmbs.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000587

The great thing about being a writer is that you can find a way to use pretty much every experience you ever have...

PJ

LOL Chris and Pam!

Kaethel

ps: Chris, now that you're back to writing Lois and Clark fanfic, WHERE IS MMIKC2?!?

pps: Pam, we're not so patiently waiting for Hearts Reunited and the Alphabet Series, so GET MOVING!!!

LOL very cute girls. laura

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade... and that's exactly what you two have done here, Pam and Chris. Excellent, excellent work! ) behaviour, this is a laugh a minute!


Wendy

Very sweet!!

~Liz

Hi,

Cute story.

Hilarious. I'm glad Superman made an appearance. Thanks for writing!

Great story, you two! Hilarious, and also sweet. All the better knowing some of that stuff is real. Love the ending.

The one thing that got me, though, was this:

Maybe it's just that I'm exhausted and possibly sick and not really thinking all that well, but when I first read this line, I was pretty confused. "He wants to go on a date with her fish?"

Took me a bit to figure it out, but then I could read on and it was a very good turning point.

Anyway, glad you made it home safe and sound, and very glad you thought to turn it into a story!

Paul

This was adorable Some of the funnest stories can come from real life experiences, and of course you have to snort at the "good luck getting out" line!

This was great

See? You got something positive from the traffic jam!!

Jose

I'm glad you managed to turn your experience into such a great story. I think you two should be on the road more often together. I'm still laughing about the tag-line. Thanks for the great laugh.

Saskia

LOL! Absolutely excellent, and clearly we should ensure that Pam and Chris get stuck in many more traffic jams. Wendy, invite them to Canada, will you? <g>

Yvonne

Invitation already issued, Y - we're way ahead of you!


Wendy

As a proud Virginian I must defend my state. It's a beautiful state and I would invite anybody to come and see it.

Cute story though.

Great story, you two! The descriptions of traffic jams and traffic lights letting only a few cars by were so apt! I was wondering if Clark was going to take a chance and tell/show Lois his powers. Does one of them have to come back for the car now, though? Also, what was Clark referring to about the "we've done it before?" Maybe I'm as clueless as Lois, but I couldn't tell.

Coming from Maryland, and since I make frequent car trips to the center of North Carolina, Virginia is also the hardest part of my trip. I actually got into a car accident with my then-fiance in the horrible stop-and-go traffic you often see on I-95 just south of DC. One time, when I was driving *north* through Virginia, I accidentally got onto Business-301 instead of regular 301. That meant 50 miles of driving on an almost-empty tank of gas without any gas stations or anything except trees for miles upon miles. Oh, and around 11pm at night. That was a bit scary. I, like Lois, was very relieved to see the lights of DC and "civilization."

The others have already said everything about it, so I'm just gonna give a synopsis:

This story was great!!

Keep writing,
AnnaBtG.

Fun story!

Reminds me of those cross-country drives where the interstate drops down to one lane for construction (they say... but I never *see* any workers) and everyone is stuck in one long line. Yuck!

I like how the revelation came in when I least expected it- and Lois' reaction was priceless!

Thanks for posting~
sunkist

A Pam/Chris fic, and a funny one, too! I haven't seen one of those in a long time. You two need to do this more often. (How many more road trips do you have planned in the future?)

Nan

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Kae said:
Ditto!!!

Sara (who's still chuckling to herself)

Pam and Chris

This is great.

Tricia

Aww, so cute! I think I'm in good company when I say that my favorite lines were Clark's oh-so-casual way of asking Lois for a date and his later mutter of "we've done it before" (returning to friendship).

I'm glad you two were able to make the most of your time stuck in the car. You should go on more road trips if this is the result.

Kathy

Yeesh, it's no wonder I can't find time to write anything, I can't even get enough uninterrupted minutes to reply to comments... but the family will just have to wait a little bit for the moment

Anyway.... Glad to see so many of you enjoyed this little piece of fluff! We started writing it on the road -- I started us off with the idea, then Chris added in tons of great details -- not to mention taking notes of the weirder exit names we passed <g> -- and then after we got home we emailed the file back and forth for a day or so, and... here we are

Kae, while I'd be more than happy to visit Annette anytime, I would really rather not get stuck in Virginia again! <g>

Our other stories are proceeding at the same pace as they have been... although I suppose that's not entirely *good* news...

Wendy, thank you, we were hoping that this would work as a relationship story, along with the comedy aspects. Just a straight comedy wouldn't have been nearly as much fun to write. And the brilliant insight was entirely attributable to my subconscious My subconscious thanks you.

Glad you liked it, Liz! And Maria, I see you enjoyed our ending <g> That was one of the first things we came up with, actually... and thanks, Roo, for laughing -- I'm sure you were only laughing at the parts we meant to be funny. Right?

Sorry to confuse you, Paul; this thing was written within two days, so we can't have fixed everything. At any rate, that's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Thanks, Diane -- the "good luck getting out" was a direct quote from the front seat of my car, sometime last Sunday evening... <g>

Jen, bison? That may beat ostriches...

Jose and Sas, yes, I suppose we got something good out of the traffic jams, but I don't recommend it as a method of energizing your muse

LOL, Yvonne, thanks for inviting us to Wendy's house! We may just manage that, one of these years... but next time, I wanna fly <g>

Juliet, you're right, it is a beautiful state. And I've driven through it lots of times with minimal problems. But on the Friday afternoon of a holiday weekend... it was a teeny bit busy <g>

Thanks, Fuzz And the "we've done it before" line was about them trying for a romantic relationship, having it fail, and then going back to just being friends. As in, the end of first season. Of course, since Clark lied about it to Lois, she hadn't seen the parallel, until he mentioned it...

Thanks, Anna -- I know it gets hard to think of anything original to say, but I appreciate you chiming in regardless.

Sunkist, yeah, there's always something. It was just the collection of one thing on top of another, coming and going, that impressed us <g>

No more road trips planned, Nan, at least not at the moment. But if we do come up with another joint fic for any reason, I promise we'll share it <g>

Sara, thanks for using quotes! The first five bits you quoted were entirely Chris's contribution. Well, except for Oilville and Goochland. We saw those on exit signs <g>

Glad you enjoyed it, Tricia! I've been kinda surprised, actually, by how many comments this has garnered... our absence must have made your hearts grow fonder -- we'll have to go away more often

Speaking of which... thanks for de-lurking, Kathy <g> Your two favorite lines were written by two of us -- Chris, and my subconscious. I added some bits in, too, but my subconscious gets all the really good lines.

Thanks again to *everyone* for such an overwhelming response -- sorry it took me this long to reply to y'all! I know Chris really really appreciates the good reaction this has gotten. Hopefully, it'll get her fanfic-engine jumpstarted again. And maybe even mine, too. Stranger things have happened

PJ