lol, I love the punchline laugh I could practically hear the argument, so *I* was grateful for the silence :p You caught the Lane family dynamics very nicely.

Thank goodness they've all gone! goofy

PJ


"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K