I’m not sure precisely where the line is between acquaintance and friend, but I’m of the opinion that that line is one that must be crossed before you can eat the leftovers of that person when you’re out dining with them. Sometimes this means that perfectly good french fries must be sacrificed to avoid a social faux pas.
This really happened, but it was even more awkward in real life. A guy with a push cart gets on the subway with his wife and shouts out “Can someone give up their seat for my wife???” They both look pretty out of it and they stand by the door. That’s when someone got out of their seat. A woman started going for the seat when this happened. Some people have a funny idea of what manners are.
After a little while the guy was mumbling to himself how tired he was. Then finally he said “screw it, honey, move over. I can sit down if you can just slide over.” Only there were already three people sitting and there was not a space to fit in. It’s not like the three people were skinny enough that they could squish, there was no room at all. But that didn’t stop the guy, so he started inserting himself even though his wife wasn’t moving at all. He just kept saying “Move over… move over! Tell the woman to slide over!” Finally the poor woman the guy was almost sitting on just got up because she could tell that he wasn’t giving up.
I think I’m in the minority on this one. Ever been near someone who starts to burp, suppresses it, and then you hear all the gas coming out bypassing the parts of the throat that would’ve made it an earth shattering burp? Whenever that happens it makes me feel like I have a burp in my throat I need to let out, and I won’t have relief until it’s released. Maybe I need to call up some of my guy friends with impressive burping skills.
It took me a while to think of how to best write out the sound of an aborted burp, I hope I was able to adequately convey the sound of it.
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?
I think I’m retreading some ground here, but I had to get this comic done before I went to work. The first guy is my building’s morning doorman who is saying “have a nice day” but it really sounds more like “haveaday…” The “thankyouniceweekend” woman is the deli worker around my old office and the last I notice people only sort of mutter “thanks” under their breath because they usually don’t feel like doing a full voiced “thanks.” I do the last one all the time.
You know you check the disc after you get a DVD back, how could you not?
Finally a person who understood the flow of subway foot traffic. This made my evening when it happened.
Could’ve sworn I did this one already, but pretty sure I didn’t. Who the heck decides to stand so that their bag can take the seat next to them???
Not only did I see this person but I walked right past them in the narrow entrance of a deli. Thankfully they didn’t notice me because I totally didn’t remember their name. It was a waitress from an Izakaya that I used to go to all the time (before I switched to drinking shochu instead of sake), but I haven’t been there in almost a year now. So it would be sort of doubly awkward since I haven’t been there in so long.
Anyone who reads my comic knows that I’d rather avoid awkward banter with people who are only vague acquaintances so I’m very much appreciative when the other person either doesn’t see me or doesn’t acknowledge me even if I know they made the knowing eye contact.
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