"This was a bad idea." Jess said.
"You didn't have any complaints yesterday and we only left twenty minutes ago." Rory pointed out. "It's a little soon to be having second thoughts."
"I didn't mean about going to Maine."
"Then what did you mean?" Rory asked.
"This music. Why are we listening to classical music?"
"They say classical music makes babies more intelligent."
"One according to everything I read it can't hear for another few months anyway, two, don't you want the kid to have a decent taste in music and three, it will drive me crazy."
"The remote for the CD changer is in the glove box." Rory said.
"Thank you." Jess pulled it and switched CD's.
He looked at Rory when 'Walk Like An Egyptian' began to play.
"Mom's driving CD." Rory said. "After we forgot to take any music on our impromptu road trip to Harvard. Skip to the next one."
"Much better." Jess agreed.
"The Lane driving CD."
"Well Lane has good musical taste." Jess commented.
"Do you want to check those directions for me?" Rory asked.
"Only you would mapquest directions."
"I don't want to get lost." Rory said.
"Fine." Jess checked the directions. "You're fine."
"Good."
GG
In the end it had taken them five hours to get to Sanford, Rory getting hungry or needing the bathroom had meant they had stopped frequently.
They found a diner and went inside to eat before they would ask for directions to the Renaissance fair.
"What can I get you?" The waitress dressed in the TV cliché outfit asked.
"Can I get a turkey sandwich; hold the mayo and some tomato soup?" Rory asked.
"Anything to drink?"
"Chocolate milk." Rory replied.
"And for you sir?"
"Can I get a hamburger, with extra fries and a soda please?"
"I'll be right back."
"Can you imagine Luke being that cheery?" Jess asked.
"It would ruin the whole dining experience of Luke's."
"You mean Lorelai and Luke arguing about him not giving her coffee and then always giving it to her anyway, then trying to convince the two of you that you eat too much junk food."
"Hey mister, look at who ordered what." Rory pointed out.
"And Luke getting mad at Taylor for him wanting to put up signs for whatever ridiculous town event he came up with to celebrate this week."
"Some of them aren't ridiculous?"
"A Peach fair?" Jess countered.
"I said some of them. All that stuff is what makes Luke's great."
"And that's why you fit in in that crackpot town."
"You just moved there." Rory pointed out.
"Well it's a long commute from New York everyday." Jess remarked.
"Cute."
"Why thank you." Jess smirked.
"You know my Mom called Luke Duke for the first two years she knew him just to annoy him."
"Sounds about right."
"And the first day she went into Luke's it was busy so she followed him around pestering him for coffee, he kept telling her to sit down and shut up and that he would get to her in a minute."
"Knowing Lorelai that obviously didn't deter her."
"No she asked when his birthday was, he finally broke down and told her, so she went and got a newspaper and wrote under Scorpio, 'You will meet an annoying woman. Give her coffee, and she'll go away.'"
"But she obviously didn't go away." Jess interjected.
"No. But she did tell Luke to keep the horoscope because it would bring him good luck. So he kept it in his wallet for eight years."
"That is incredibly…"
"Sappy?" Rory supplied.
"That's one word for it."
TBC