"The nearest phone booth is a coup-"
What a knee slapper! That's great!
Sure, it was nice to be wearing street clothes again, but he felt out of place in a silk shirt and a pair of slacks that were probably worth more than a reporter's weekly salary.
Not quite picturing that myself. Silk tie--maybe. Silk shirt--that's just not our Clark Kent.
"I guess I don't have a secret lair, with a dozen state of the art computers and a forensics lab, then," he said, amused. He'd been very impressed by Batman's arsenal, but kept wondering if all these things were really necessary.
"Nope. The secret compartment in your closet is all there is," Lois explained, with a smile. "Besides a very smart partner, of course."
"Ah. So, you're the brains in this operation, huh?" He had a teasing smile on his lips that sent a long shiver running through Lois's spine. She wouldn't have acknowledged such a thing before, but she loved to be teased this way – by Clark, anyway.
"You better believe it!" she said, with a smug smile.
This is great--funny and waffy all rolled into one.
They walked over to the balcony and, a blur of red and blue later, they took off into the night sky.
All's well that ends well. What a great ride this has been.
Poor Bruce. There's just no nice way to say "get lost", is there?
That reminds me of a story. On the date before James proposed to me, a buddy of his happened along and joined us. We were kind of in the middle of a pouring-your-heart-out conversation, so James finally said, "In all Christian love... go away." /me mutters to myself, "Happy memories. Happy memories." Did I ever mention that Off Topic is my middle name?
Oh, and the stories need to be either numbered or the TOC needs to be updated because James has downloaded them to read on his computer and the (K) is throwing off the order. (Sometimes you just have to speak James' language to understand.) Of course, he could just order the dad-burned things on his own hard drive, but that might just be too out-of-the-box to think of during year-end close.
It's not the ties that Clark remembers. It's Lois's babbling about insignificant things and her obvious annoyance at people not taking her seriously - even though she's going on and on about details that aren't very relevant. Ah well. As long as you guys got a giggle out of it anyway, I'm happy.
I understood it as the babbling, but either way, it's funny.
Elisabeth
