Category: acts of questionable legality

never did find out the answer

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This is a story that is one hundred percent true. I was an usher that night at the movie theatre, and these dudes showed up tipsy. I don’t remember the exact circumstances but in any case we had to eject them. Usually we got tipped off by people being too noisy in the theatre — patrons in Winkler are typically pretty reserved while watching, so drunken idiots braying at the screen stand out quickly.

One of the two guys was at least trying to get the other one to leave quietly once they’d been ejected, but that guy was having none of it and decided to get up in my face. (At least he wasn’t physical about it. I’m really not a fighter.) Over and over, he asked: “Don’t you know who I am?!” to which I would honestly reply “no”. But that threat really only works if you back it up, and he never did. Then they left. [May 22, 2011]

no telling if I can keep these up

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I often say that I do these comics for my own amusement but most of the time I am not actually outwardly amused. Okay, that didn’t come out right. What I mean is that it isn’t as though I sit there and draw a thing and then laugh uproariously every time. Sometimes I don’t even crack a smile. It’s the way you watch a comedy show on your own but don’t always laugh, even though you know what you’re watching is funny — you just sort of inwardly acknowledge the joke.

Why did I start talking about this? Is it bad that I’ve lost my own train of thought in less than a paragraph? Oh yes, I remember now. I love the middle panel of this comic every time I see it. I’m proud of both the writing and artwork. Even though I don’t usually laugh out loud at my own work, this one often prompts a chuckle, and that’s saying something about how much I like it. [May 3, 2011]