Jeanie Bottle 757
Oct10
on October 10, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on October 10, 2023. at 2:55 pm
Chapter: Story 16: I Dream of Nostalgia
That’s gonna be a long drive.
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That’s gonna be a long drive.
They thought one day now they got a whole life to live Jean you really have changed for the better. Now Rouyaa and Andy got a whole lot more catching up to do.
Jeanie is showing a bit of (long overdue) remorse for some of her past actions. Will she go back and try to make amends? The fishing boat captain, the guys she dropped into WW2, Melvin’s buddy — oh, wait, that one’s doing OK as a hot redhead with her own comic strip. Leave her alone.
But others are right. The whole arc was supposed to be about locating the Magic McGuffin and that appears to have been entirely forgotten.
I suspect some of them have been changed long enough turning them back would just make things worse for them. I mean imagine you get turned into the opposite sex (possibly with a child) and after months you start to adjust, to make a new life for yourself and then it all gets taken away from you again.
How else does the magic kitty get back without using a lot of magic?
He is definitely that
lazyconservative with his genie-juice.conservativesmartHe also now can question them at his leisure. It takes about forty hours of driving to get from Cocoa Beach to the Los Angeles area, which means at least three days if they get a normal amount of sleep, but if they decide to see the sights along the way, it could take a week or more.
Drivers licenses? Other identification? Whether just as physical items or tied to magically falsified records. They have money and probably have been given a lifestyle that can let them get away with fewer records than most people. (Can blanks get sick? If not, they might not need any health care.) Jeanie has honestly helped them out more than any of those she transformed, and it’s not absurd for her to miss details. But, they could possibly be found out, eventually.
Also, still hoping/waiting for Ms. Eden Rouyaa to be found.
Jeannie’s magic has a way of taking care of details without her having to explicitly specify things. Since she intended for them to be able to live out their lives, I’m willing to bet that they both have IDs, credit cards, birth records, auto insurance, and verifiable work histories, that all came into being at the same time that they did. (At least that’s what I’m going to go with until CD says otherwise!)
Agreed about Rouyaa!
How often do you need to show your driver’s license if you don’t do anything stupid? (Or look too young or live in the wrong place or belong to a targeted minority?) The only time I’ve had to show ID since I got old enough to look like a grownup are for transactions I initiated.
Show your license? Any time someone hits YOU (or you hit someone else), DUI check-points, and any time the local cops get suspicious of the white van that has been around for a week. And in California, whenever the local cops get tired of seeing the car with no front plate running around. We will ignore all the problems with taking airplane trips, since they are driving.
On a road trip across America in a van with a talking animal. Watch out for all the spooky mysteries!
Nah. Kazom knows when to keep his mouth shut and just snooze.
That whooshing noise was a Scooby Doo reference going over your head 🙂
Jinkies!
Never watched it. Doesn’t sound like I missed much.
Hopefully they’ll have enough extra cash left to buy Andy a comb!
so uhh, was there any point to this whole arc? or is it a setup for the next one?
Nothing got resolved, only new problems were created, and it just feels unsatisfying.
I came here to say the same thing. The setup was a little thin to begin with (it certainly seemed like they could get the info they needed in an easier way) and Jeanie sends them off without apparently even asking a few pointed questions.
And we still don’t know what happened to Neil.
Agreed.
Most people these days go from California *to* Florida.
Boy are THEY in for a disappointment.
Hey, on the plus side, there’s probably a lot of destroyed, burned-over, flooded-out real estate that they can camp on, along with the rest of the homeless.
Talking about getting a raw deal, Jean got a real raw deal being transformed against his will into a super hot blonde bombshell genie of the bottle and is stuck this way forever, that my friends, is a raw deal.
Except for the hot blond bombshell and genie parts.
I stand corrected.
Doesn’t Melvin and Red live in California? Kasom has a ride home. Of course when Red finds out when jeanie lives she might pay a visit. I thought it was a cute and very nice story. Now all they have to do is find Rouyaa.
Driving coast to coast is typically a five day trip, four if you drive for 12 hours per day or more. We can discuss the Cannonball Run or Gumball Rally, if you like, but with that van and lots of money, I’d say a seven day trip is more enjoyable.
Having said that, I am so freaking bored with driving the I-10 freeway, having driven it several times. I’d probably go farther north and take the 70, 80, or 90.
I would recommend I-40, which follows most of the old Route 66 from Oklahoma westward.
I took I-40 home from Little Rock after I road-tripped out there from LA to meet a friend I met through this comic for Akansas Comic Con. Those windmills are HUGE.
What happens if Rouyaa wants to stop by her old apartment to pick up some things and they find the bottle. If they open it will the other Rouyaa be able to get out?
And now I’m picturing old Ryoua granting young Ryoua 3 wishes.
Technically the “new” Rouyaa is a new soul with memories and personality taken from the genie Rouyaa. The original soul stayed with the original Rouyaa’s body. As such, the Genie Laws would not consider it to be a case of granting wishes to herself.
If they want to pick up anything, Kazom can just poof it straight to them. Faster than a delivery from Amazon.
I forgot to mention I-40 in my previous post. You are correct about it following much of the old Route 66. And, yes, you can see lots of things off of it: the Grand Canyon’s South Rim is about an hour north, west of Flagstaff; Meteor Crator is available east of Flagstaff, as is Petrified Forest National Park; the Four Corners is accessible north of I-40 a little farther east on one of two routes; and it runs through Albuquerque, NM (great for seeing the annual Balloon Festival). If the pair do take I-40, they should absolutely take the left turn in Albuquerque.
I-40 and I-10 both have LOOOOOOONNNNNNGG stretches of not-much-to-look-at except rocks, sand, cacti, & open sky. In the east, those roads have LOOOOOOONNNNNNGG stretches of not-much-to-look-at except very tall trees and law enforcement hiding in the median strip. The changeover happens more or less in Louisiana/Arkansas and east Texas/Oklahoma. I’m not denying it can be very pretty, but it can also be pretty desolate. I got stuck for 5 hours once on westbound I-40 in a non-working moving truck about 100 miles east of Oklahoma City at an exit with nothing but a shuttered gas station and a two-lane road heading off to either horizon until the tow truck arrived. Memorable? Yes. Fun? Not so much. Later that same trip we stayed in an old Route 66 motel in Tucumcari, NM. Probably the best description of the room was…functional. My kids (6th & 10th graders at the time) couldn’t have cared less it was an historic Route 66 motel, they were more upset the pool had been filled in (probably decades ago).
Well, this rambled quite a bit. Sorry.
Just so long as Kazom doesn’t start singing “I’m ‘enery the eighth I am” over and over…
Man these two are going to get disappointed, California is not like they remember from the 1960’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfBvkql0lI
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I wasn’t expecting that! That was funny! Thanks!
then try California Fleeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJlKw56l30
That’s great, too! 😉
I believe that was off the album, “Good Migrations”.
Calif just banned “Skittles.” They can earn a living by bootlegging Skittles across into Calif.
They banned a food coloring used in Skittles and a bunch of other foods.
We need to take this up with Jeanie. Maybe she can help. what could go wrong.
Just noticed that Andy’s shirt is missing the NASA logo present in the previous pages
Oh, yeah, the plot. Good kitty.