There’s a old hispanic guy who works in my building, and during the daytime whenever I see him I usually do the head nod or “good morning.” But his face is usually an impenetrable poker face that doesn’t say much more than “I acknowledge your presence.” When he’s not working he’s usually hanging out with his friends outside of a bodega where they sit around and drink beers. In those scenarios when we walk past him, Anna will wave and he’ll say “Hiiiii!” and give a big wave back. It’s funny and kind of cute in an old man sort of way.
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This is a very regional joke, and of course explaining it will make the joke not very funny, but I’ll explain it anyway.
I already explained in this comic how the G train is pure and simply the worst subway line in the entire system. A friend of mine recently put in application for a new apartment and it’s still on the G train. I said to him half-jokingly “Okay, your next apartment isn’t going to be on the G train.” I say this for myself and for him, because his friends (myself included) will be in a better mood when it comes time to visit him, and those occasions will usually be special occasions, because we want to avoid the G train at all costs.
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Actually it wasn’t that early, but I did go to the Brooklyn Best Buy to pick up Dead Space 2. On the way back I picked up groceries for dinner and then spent the rest of the day indoors. Yep, I’m a lazy homebody if there ever was one.
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It’s true, there were two small orange ladybugs that were casualties of the very hot halogen bulb. Other than that it looked like one fly and assorted bug bits. I now have two comics about killing ladybugs.
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Thankfully the smell was outside of the apartment and didn’t get in. The trash chute is next to our door so sometimes there are odd smells, but this one was such a mixture of smells it was very odd. When we got downstairs it smelled very strongly of paint so I guess they were repainting something. It’s possible the paint smell wafted up and mixed with the garbage smell from the chute. We’ll never know for sure.
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The day before yesterday the surprise was the wet paint. Yesterday an entire section of carpet had been ripped out and underneath was a black tiled floor. It took me rather aback to see it. I wonder if they’re ripping it all up or what because if they just replace the section it’ll look rather odd.
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Fortunately the paint was dry by the time I got home. I was in my building’s elevator and usually as soon as the door starts opening I start pushing the elevator door open. I did that like usual, but after I was already pushing the door I looked up to see the sign that said the apartment doors had been repainted. Had it said the elevator door was repainted then my night would’ve been less fun.
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We’ve been living in our new apartment for almost 9 months now and yet it’s not “finished.” When we first moved in we were going to IKEA pretty much every single weekend getting stuff and then realizing we needed more stuff. Along the way we bought frames for various things we knew we wanted to hang around the apartment in order to decorate. The problem being that our apartment became functionally livable before then which means we were comfortable which means that suddenly decoration didn’t feel like such a huge priority.
Maybe we should’ve decorated first and then focused on the priorities of getting the apartment livable like setting up the TV and living room area. Well, this past weekend we finally set up some frames that have been sitting around for a while waiting to be hung up. It’s a series of cartoon drawings I did when I was 14 which are now proudly on display. Give us another weekend and the rest will probably be hung up. The question is, when will that weekend roll around…?
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Yep, 100% true. I was on the street, used the s-word in front of an infant when I saw a near accident, and then proceeded to walk behind the father and his kid all the way to my apartment building. I even slowed so that he wouldn’t have to see me going into the building with him, but for some reason he stopped outside the door forcing me to continue in. Not sure if he’s on my side of the building, but I’ll probably see them again.
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There’s this woman in my building who makes me sort of uncomfortable because of her unreasonable expectations of courtesy. The first time I interacted with her consisted of the 4th and 5th panels, she didn’t even give me the necessary time to ask her how she was doing before saying “I’m fine too thanks for asking.” Weird that in her saying something because of perceived rudeness I thought she was being pretty rude. Granted I usually don’t ask people back “how are you?” when they ask me, but do people really want a real answer when they ask that casually?
Anyway, yesterday we were headed out the door, she was standing outside the door so naturally her back was to us when we were leaving. When we were three feet ahead of where she was standing she says “hi neighbors” and we have no choice but to turn around and say “hi” as we were walking. Again, was a “hi” really to be expected if her back was to us? Were we supposed to do it as we were passing?
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