You just HAAAAAD to incorporate my ex’s name into the comic didn’t you? And she still thinks she has it too, even though she’s almost 60! (That’s still considered old, right?) Hmmm, might be openin’ a can o’ worms here huh? Well, let’s let it play out and see what happens…
I was following an elderly couple out of the grocery store, when I noticed the old lady drop a wad of cash on the ground. They didn’t seem to notice so I picked it up and said “excuse me young lady, you dropped this,” and handed it back to her. She began to blush and her husband spoke up with “don’t flatter yourself, Ethyl…” ah, such a happy marriage.
There is an Italian proverb, that goes along the lines of:
‘Tell a woman that she’s beautiful, and the devil will wisper it in her ear a thousand times’.
So he was probably just trying to keep her grounded, so she wouldn’t demand geriatric sex later on.
Oh, yeah. And, as a woman, I have to see a man who’s REALLY decrepit before I’d dare to offer him my seat.
Seriously, though, you should watch for people who need the seat. Once nobody moved for a little old bent-over lady with a cane. I was standing too, but I had to yell, “Who wants to make their mother proud of them and give this lady a seat?” before anybody got up… and then it was a woman.
I find it helps if you don’t actually offer the seat, I just wait until they’re near my seat and then get up as if I’m going to get off at the next stop, then they can sit down without feeling like they made someone else stand up for them. (Of course this only works if everyone else on the bus is courteous enough to let them sit down before jumping into the seat.)
I like the advice in the first and last panel. For some reason,*cough* the ways of the elderly become more pertinent daily. I know a few “Irenes” and there more of them than there are old guys.
Yeah, ya gots to be careful with the assumptions…like asking a woman, “How many months?”
I stepped on it with track shoes when I told a caller, “One moment, sir” and she said, “I’m a woman.” I felt so bad but it also sounded like Harvey Firestein.
Heh… Yeah, I have that happen from time to time. I’ll sub in nights for our door girl if she’s sick. It’s company policy to check all IDs (we’re required to write down full name as shown on said ID in a roster). This policy is especially popular with our older crowd.
Hahahah! I get htis way about helping people with groceries. total panic attack. “Do I ask them? It might insult them! But maybe it wont! What if theyre carrying something heavy and are havinga hard itme and me not asking them isnt for the better? what do I do? AUGH!” or alternatively “this not-at-all-old woman is carrying something that’s visibly heavy! if i offer my help would he consider it an insult? AUGH!!!”
My 90 year old grandma would kick you in the … shins … for implying she was old.
I have a feeling that you speak of the shins of the third leg.
You just HAAAAAD to incorporate my ex’s name into the comic didn’t you? And she still thinks she has it too, even though she’s almost 60! (That’s still considered old, right?)
Hmmm, might be openin’ a can o’ worms here huh? Well, let’s let it play out and see what happens…
Coulda had that last panel both ways. “Come on, Irene.”
Oh, I swear…
I was following an elderly couple out of the grocery store, when I noticed the old lady drop a wad of cash on the ground. They didn’t seem to notice so I picked it up and said “excuse me young lady, you dropped this,” and handed it back to her. She began to blush and her husband spoke up with “don’t flatter yourself, Ethyl…” ah, such a happy marriage.
There is an Italian proverb, that goes along the lines of:
‘Tell a woman that she’s beautiful, and the devil will wisper it in her ear a thousand times’.
So he was probably just trying to keep her grounded, so she wouldn’t demand geriatric sex later on.
Gramp: “Dammit boy, stop flattering her, my poor hip can’t take it anymore!”
Geriatric sex. There’s gotta be a Bugmartini cartoon in that idea.
Also applies to seats in the metro.
Oh, yeah. And, as a woman, I have to see a man who’s REALLY decrepit before I’d dare to offer him my seat.
Seriously, though, you should watch for people who need the seat. Once nobody moved for a little old bent-over lady with a cane. I was standing too, but I had to yell, “Who wants to make their mother proud of them and give this lady a seat?” before anybody got up… and then it was a woman.
I find it helps if you don’t actually offer the seat, I just wait until they’re near my seat and then get up as if I’m going to get off at the next stop, then they can sit down without feeling like they made someone else stand up for them. (Of course this only works if everyone else on the bus is courteous enough to let them sit down before jumping into the seat.)
Love the title, Adam! One of your finest.
I like the advice in the first and last panel. For some reason,*cough* the ways of the elderly become more pertinent daily. I know a few “Irenes” and there more of them than there are old guys.
Yeah, ya gots to be careful with the assumptions…like asking a woman, “How many months?”
I stepped on it with track shoes when I told a caller, “One moment, sir” and she said, “I’m a woman.” I felt so bad but it also sounded like Harvey Firestein.
Panel 2 reminds me of this video from The Man Show:
http://www.noob.us/humor/man-show-boy-helps-old-ladies-cross-the-street/
Heh… Yeah, I have that happen from time to time. I’ll sub in nights for our door girl if she’s sick. It’s company policy to check all IDs (we’re required to write down full name as shown on said ID in a roster). This policy is especially popular with our older crowd.
Hahahah! I get htis way about helping people with groceries. total panic attack. “Do I ask them? It might insult them! But maybe it wont! What if theyre carrying something heavy and are havinga hard itme and me not asking them isnt for the better? what do I do? AUGH!” or alternatively “this not-at-all-old woman is carrying something that’s visibly heavy! if i offer my help would he consider it an insult? AUGH!!!”
reminds me of SMBC on the “ambiguous zone”
Make that lady feel special.