Hi Jerseygrl!
Welcome to the boards!
Disclaimer for new members: my FDK is most often a lot of (hopefully) funny asides and tangents triggered by some quote from the text and possibly also quite tongue in cheek from time to time.
And what if Lois had actually been the one to see it instead?
Oops?
as well as some kind of tip about a new budding crime syndicate that she received late the night before from Bobby Bigmouth, the most reliable of all her sources…
A syndicate trying to shrink portions at restaurants while keeping the prices at the original level?
“I’ve still got eight minutes,” she said. “What did I get him?” She paused as Jimmy handed her a gift
Is that from the show? Either way,
And Clark Kent was definitely considered part of that fat.
/Points at Pilot and “It’s nine o’clock”/
LOIS: /plugs ears/ lalalala
Her head shot up, meeting a familiar pair of dark, brown eyes that twinkled suggestively right at her… And then, against her will, she felt her heart start racing in response, her heart thumping hard against her ribs.
Awww…her Superman-response!
Lois sighed. That man was a menace.
Clark Kent. Causing heart palpations in impressionable professional women sine 1993.
No time, chief,” she replied, tossing the present at his desk. He picked it up, contemplating it for a moment. “Oh, and here,” she added, dropping the card right beside it. “Happy birthday, or whatever…”
Wow, am wondering if Perry can feel the love as much as I can.
He held it up, jamming his finger under the glued flap, and then he started to tear it open— And that’s when she saw it. Or she thought she did… But it had to have been her imagination. It had to have said something else…
Oops?
“Ah, good idea, Kent,” Perry said. “Now, Lois, I can’t wait to see what you bought this year. Your gifts are always so… thoughtful.”
Perry really should be more appreciative of his present. After all, Lois just gave him the scoop of the century. And he didn't even acknowledge it.
But Lois barely heard him at all, she was so entranced by the envelope, which was now under Perry’s hand. She needed to see it. She needed to know. So she did what she did best— And she went for it.
Loisssss!
But no, the words were there, clearly written with a black pen, and even in her own handwriting, no less.
Oh look, a mystery! Let’s forget about that messy Superman business and focus on the mystery, shall we?
LOIS: Mystery?
Looking forward to finding our where this is going. 3 parts also feel like something easily squeezed into a tight reading schedule /eyes longer stories that have been neglected so far/
Michael
