The expiry date signs made me laugh. A large supermarket near us has a pouch of rice on the shelf with a 'best before date' of December 2024. All the pouches behind it are not expired. Every week I check, and every week it remains at the front of the shelf.
Kind of like the magazines I saw at Barnes and Noble that were over two years old. Someone hasn’t grasped the concept of not only putting the oldest in front, but also pulling the expired ones. It’s a learning curve that hopefully doesn’t include food poisoning.
Ahhh! I did take a drink from a carton of milk at a gas station which might have had an expiration date before I was born. The concerning part was that the cashier had my refund ready at the counter. She knew.
I almost had to work a black Friday in a mall, but then I showed up to work one day at the show store, and the store was closed forever. I took it as a sign.
I never worked in a retail store but worked in a factory where the managers too closely resembled those in your strip. I still can’t get them out of my brain even though I’ve been retired 12 years and the company no longer exits.
Very high praise! Dave Barry may be my only idolized comic writer who’s still living and working, but that’s only because I leapt back in time for whatever reason and latched onto James Thurber, S.J. Perlman, and Robert Benchley. James Thurber kept drawing cartoons despite becoming nearly blind. We cartoonists are a wacky bunch.
Worked in library for 8 years. I remember that we had this incredibly old check reader. It sorta reminded me of the machine used in Home Alone two when they tried to charge Kevin’s card at the hotel,
It was way out of date lol. Honestly, I only had to use it maybe 4 times the entire time I was there so needed directions every-time someone brought a check in! This was 2004-2013!
I had the same challenge during the same time period with a fax machine. I attempted to get a sales team to stop using the fax and try this new fangled invention called an email. One salesman emailed me a picture of the paper he was going to fax.
I remember trying to show my mother how to copy and paste on the computer, especially when writing an email. She had to be shown how to do it so many times! Now she is obsessed with facebook, and is always sending me screenshots. But she was always shocked how easy the new thing was back then!
I spent over 30 years in retail. Worked Thanksgiving, Black Friday ect. My favorite part was when someone would call and ask to hold a " hot item" like a door buster, for a couple of hours. Now the internet has taken the fun out of that.
That totally counts. Libraries are the greatest, but they draw the strangest of the strange as patrons. Usually it’s a funny strange. No customer interaction stories can come near my ones from the library.
I was blessed/cursed to work retail for many years when I was younger, and there is no better introduction to the human race.
You jest, but there really is a condiment conspiracy afoot. Like red and yellow go together. That's what THEY want you to think!
And yet this doesn’t surprise me at all. I won’t bother googling it because there is a conspiracy theory about everything.
Each comic strip is better than the last. Congratulations and thank you for this!
Thank you for reading!
The expiry date signs made me laugh. A large supermarket near us has a pouch of rice on the shelf with a 'best before date' of December 2024. All the pouches behind it are not expired. Every week I check, and every week it remains at the front of the shelf.
Kind of like the magazines I saw at Barnes and Noble that were over two years old. Someone hasn’t grasped the concept of not only putting the oldest in front, but also pulling the expired ones. It’s a learning curve that hopefully doesn’t include food poisoning.
My dad almost ate a visibly moldy sandwich he had bought that day, so...
Ahhh! I did take a drink from a carton of milk at a gas station which might have had an expiration date before I was born. The concerning part was that the cashier had my refund ready at the counter. She knew.
Yuck, yuck, yuckity yuck yuck yuck!
I almost had to work a black Friday in a mall, but then I showed up to work one day at the show store, and the store was closed forever. I took it as a sign.
Every business I ever worked for is closed. Yes, it’s a sign.
I never worked in a retail store but worked in a factory where the managers too closely resembled those in your strip. I still can’t get them out of my brain even though I’ve been retired 12 years and the company no longer exits.
Dreamed last night about a place that laid me off in 2006.
I understand that completely. Businesses only truly go away when the leave our nightmares.
You're becoming the next Dave Barry, with the added bonus of comics.
Very high praise! Dave Barry may be my only idolized comic writer who’s still living and working, but that’s only because I leapt back in time for whatever reason and latched onto James Thurber, S.J. Perlman, and Robert Benchley. James Thurber kept drawing cartoons despite becoming nearly blind. We cartoonists are a wacky bunch.
Walt Kelly was one of my all-time favorite Americans, and a heck of an artist, too.
He was absolutely amazing.
I absolutely love these cartoons. I never had to work in a mall, but I did have to work in a movie theater once.
Thank you so much. I always thought that would be a good place to work because of the free movies.
It was, plus the free popcorn while we worked.
Worked in library for 8 years. I remember that we had this incredibly old check reader. It sorta reminded me of the machine used in Home Alone two when they tried to charge Kevin’s card at the hotel,
It was way out of date lol. Honestly, I only had to use it maybe 4 times the entire time I was there so needed directions every-time someone brought a check in! This was 2004-2013!
I had the same challenge during the same time period with a fax machine. I attempted to get a sales team to stop using the fax and try this new fangled invention called an email. One salesman emailed me a picture of the paper he was going to fax.
I remember trying to show my mother how to copy and paste on the computer, especially when writing an email. She had to be shown how to do it so many times! Now she is obsessed with facebook, and is always sending me screenshots. But she was always shocked how easy the new thing was back then!
It probably did seem like magic. It’s addictive that way.
Lovely cartoons. My dad was a political cartoonist in India and your work reminds me of his. Thank you for the laughs
Thank you and cheers to your dad!
More rants, please.
I spent over 30 years in retail. Worked Thanksgiving, Black Friday ect. My favorite part was when someone would call and ask to hold a " hot item" like a door buster, for a couple of hours. Now the internet has taken the fun out of that.
I never thought people would have the nerve to ask that, but the best stories always came from people with a lot of nerve.
I also enjoy your cartoons very much. I never worked in a big box store, but worked at McDonald's and the local library.
That totally counts. Libraries are the greatest, but they draw the strangest of the strange as patrons. Usually it’s a funny strange. No customer interaction stories can come near my ones from the library.
My mother would be one of the loudest complainers. All to cover her half-assed, bullshit parenting.