The minute the car with its occupants arrived outside the old Manor, Karen remembered something.
"We don't have updated drivers licenses." She said after turning to the others in the car.
"Well we haven't been in our own real world to renew them." Chea explained. "And Livvie never had hers."
"Plus in the tv dimension, it pretty much didn't matter." Brianna continued. "Cheas the expert on the show, were they pulled over much for anything?"
"There was a time when they were in the ghost town and were busted for parking at an intersection I think." Chea recalled.
"And shes only seen that one five times." Karen noted. Chea stuck her tongue out at her. "Oh mature!"
"When does this maturity thing kick in anyway?" Chea asked. "I don't want to grow up."
Karen rolled her eyes. "Okay, heres the manor, everyones gone, but I dont see any sign of any directions."
Livvie popped out of the car. She went to an old mail box stuffed with old announcements. She finally found what she wanted. "This postcard is from the new place they came from. They must have anticipated your return. Its got directions and everything." Livvie got back into the car. "And a new Cosmo! Scott Foley is sooooo dreamy." The girls looked at her. "Ok I'm refined, but not that refined!!"
Brianna laughed. "I don't even think I watched his show, was he Noel or Ben?"
"Noel." Karen, Chea and Livvie said at the same time. Livvie got another funny look.
"Ok so I watched some episodes with Cheas mom." Livvie shrugged. "Big deal."
They all shared a big laugh.
"So now what?" Brianna asked.
"We head to the new manor and visit. Like we planned." Karen said taking the directions from Livvie.
"Can we eat first? The guys left before we had lunch." Chea asked.
"Thats a good idea. I been getting some strange cravings lately." Karen confessed. Chea looked at her friend with a raised eyebrow. "I don't think its that."
Chea nodded. "ohhhhhhhh kay." She eyed Brianna who shrugged.
"Why are you so surprised? They are married now." Brianna said referring to Mike and Karen. "It had to happen."
"I need Arbys!" Karen said starting the car. "Whos with me?"
"You don't have to ask me twice. Lets not let what happened last time happen again." Livvie said buckling herself in.
"What was that?" Chea asked.
"Karen and me and Mike and Peter, when we were in Phoenix, we spend a half an hour looking for just the right chicken place." Livvie said. "You had to be there. Peter was borderline insane by the time we got there."
After having some nice dreamy cheesy roast beef sandwiches, the girls returned to the road. Livvie was in Arby's heaven. She didnt eat it around Peter too often in fear of offending his vegan sensibilities. It was a new thing he had picked up, but she doubted it would last.
"Hey, a yard sale!" Cheap pointed to a colorful sign on the side of the road.
"You mean a Ca-rap sale." Brianna said. "I have never seen so many people just dying to get rid of their beanie babies."
"Beanie Baby?" Livvie questioned.
"Stuffed animal fad of the late 20th, early 21st century." Brianna said. "Every year there is a toy people have to have, getting it at all costs. Remember the Cabbage Patch Kids girls?"
"Oh yea." Chea said. "I had one, now its busy adopting dust bunnies in a good will bin somewhere in South Georgia."
Karen pulled over to the yard sale, which was being attended to by a bunch of friendly farmer types. After doing a quick accessment of what was there, they decided that Briannas first judgement of the yard sale was correct.
They were about to leave when they saw it. A small machine was the centerpiece next to a stack of old Cosmopolitian magazines. Livvie had already discovered the stack and was currently going through them.
"Whats this?" Chea asked.
"Cosmo." Livvie said. "I never knew Burt Reynolds did a centerfold." She looked at it. "Good gracious me."
"I know." Brianna said. "The staple always gets in the way."
"Bria!" Chea and Karen said together.
"Hey I'm female! I can look." Brianna said. "The fact that hes old enough to be my father, maybe grandfather, that kills the fantasy."
"That'll do it." Livvie agreed. She folded up the magazine. "I saw it first." She said as she paid for it.
The farmer type walked over. "Yes ma'am, this here is a cloning machine."
"Cloning machine?" Karen asked. "Now we know where Dolly came from."
"Not animals ma'am." The man said. "My name is Papa Gene."
"Of course." Chea laughed a little.
"We made this machine way back in the forties, but we never could get it working right." Gene said. "So now the missus wants to sell it. But no takers!" He put a sign on it. It read "free".
Chea looked at it and her eyes grew wide. "We'll take it!"
Karen did a double take so hard her neck felt like it was gonna throw her head right off. "What?"
"We have our own clone machine. We won't have to wait in line anymore. And maybe our clone won't run away like last time." Chea said. "Remember when Chandler, the Mike clone went away to the circus?"
"To be a fire eater." Brianna said. "I remember that. He was a little too handy with the sis ka bob things."
"I must have missed that." Livvie said.
"What will Mandi say? Another clone machine? They'll need a bigger manor." Karen said. Then she chuckled when she noticed her own "Jaws" mention. "Ok, take it, what harm can it do?"
"Sure ma'am, I can load it in the back of your lovely car." Gene said. "And I can throw in the mags with it."
