What Lois Lane Knew About Creativity

What Lois Lane knew about creativity: It was 2 AM Thursday morning. I don’t know why, but interesting stories like this always start around 2 AM in the morning. I guess it adds interest and intrigue. Lois and Clark were sitting in a booth at Charlie’s bar over on third. In the background from the booth where they were sitting, they heard the bartender yell out “Last call.”

Lois was pretty sure the last thing she needed was another drink. When she met Clark it was about 10:30 PM. Lois ordered her usual, a whiskey sour, a drink she adopted early on in her career, so she would not look like she was one of the boys when she went out with her fellow reporters; that were invariably all men. The drinks were hitting her pretty hard; she did not have much of a lunch, desperately trying to lose five more pounds so she could fit into her skirts that were starting to get a bit tight, and causing too many unwanted glares when she was out on assignment.

Clark, that would be the mild-mannered Clark Kent, was having his usual, a ginger ale that he was nursing prior to and during the whole time he was chatting with Lois. At about 2:10 AM, Lois finally got up enough courage to tell Clark something she has wanted to tell him for the last few years, but never found the perfect time; nor was she brave enough to tell him until she was comfortable in knowing that he could keep…