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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Actually it was a kid young enough to be in a carriage, but I was having trouble drawing a baby carriage. Yes, I did publicly say the s-word in front of this child after seeing a near collision on the street. Then in what felt like slow motion I looked over at the baby and covered my mouth. The dad told me it was all right. TO BE CONTINUED.
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If I’m not mistaken today is the first day of school. My new apartment is right next door to a middle school which means at 8:00 AM I hear kids playing basketball outside my building and yes, one kid seems to enjoy constantly yelling “OH MY GOD!!!” I have no idea what the hell could be so exciting that he keeps doing it, but I’ve reached the point where I recognize his voice no matter what he’s yelling out. After the first initial shift of kids then some more show up close to 9:00 AM or so. The other thing I get to hear is the very intimidating sounding teacher who does the countdown before the kids have to be indoors. Well, until next Summer or until it’s too cold to play basketball I guess I have a third alarm clock. Except this one I have to for it to turn off on its own.
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I was on the subway amidst several teenagers, one girl was talking about failing her SATs. I didn’t hear what she said after that but it’s not like the SATs are something you can technically fail. Yeah you can just get a REALLY LOW SCORE but it’s not failing per se. Before I did this comic I went to Wikipedia to see if there was anything else that have changed about the SATs recently. I knew that the max score is now 2400 but I didn’t know they also took analogies out.
I guess that dates the Simpsons episode where Barney drinks his first beer the night before the SATs while quizzing on analogies.
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This is without a doubt THE MOST AWKWARD subway ride I’ve EVER had. A dad was in the subway with his nine year-old daughter and her younger brother. They were standing/sitting opposite each other in the rather crowded subway car. I hit most of the highlights here, but she kept on going on and on about needing justice, rights and a proper role model (he apparently wasn’t fitting the bill). To try to appease her he said he’d take away her brother’s dessert to, but that only made things worse because then the girl said to her brother “he’s taking your dessert too, what do you think about that? We need justice!”
I don’t remember everything but she also said something like “since I’m having such a bad time today, can today not count?” The dad just kept on saying her name in a defeated/fed up sort of way and trying the “I’ve had enough” approach. It was reaaaaaaaaaaaally awkward. I can only imagine what it’s like when the mother is around. Possibly divorced? Or possibly just that the wife treats the husband like this too? I have no idea, but it was awkward, kind of disturbing and almost frightening to watch.
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Thanks to M.M. for this story. Yes, there’s at least one person out there (I’m guessing more unfortunately) who want to see the new Star Trek movie because they think the actor playing Kirk looks hot. I’ll see it, but the more I think about that movie the more it seems like a joke. Like, an SNL sketch where they have a fake trailer for “What if J.J. Abrams made Star Trek.” I know the intent is to make it more mainstream, but that’s precisely the point. Star Trek was never a mainstream thing.
The only saving grace I could imagine is that the movie under its mainstream Hollywood gloss is actually super nerdy to the point that the people who never watched Star Trek before come out feeling cheated. But I’m guessing that’s very wishful thinking.
Seriously, it looks like fan fiction if non-Star Trek fans wrote it. Except people who this is targeted towards probably don’t know what fan fiction is anyway. I guess it’s just continuing the trend of modern remakes that look like they should’ve just been a new franchise instead of calling it something it’s not really going to end up being.
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When I was in the Key Food and I overheard a woman saying this VERBATIM to her kid who must’ve been a five year old girl or something. It was also this exact sort of thought out deliberate pace that she said it to the girl. Almost like a Bond villain or something. Seriously, who talks this way to a kid?
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I was walking in midtown to the subway when I passed a mother telling this to her child. When I entered the station I saw the guy who looks like he has lots of black makeup on and his clothing looks like it’s made up of cut up newspapers billowing from every inch of his body. I’m sure it must’ve taken a while to make it, he even has a hat or something too. Wish I had a picture of him, but if you’ve lived in New York for a while you probably know who I’m talking about.
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