You’re embarrassin’ me.
on February 4, 2019 at 1:01 amChapter: An It's Walky! Prophylactique
Location: inconvenience store
Hey, it’s Chloe. At the time I thought of her as sort of a reincarnated Ruth. Pissy, sarcastic, not dead, etc. That’s why, years later, I decided in Dumbing of Age to make her the Residence Manager in charge of Ruth. I thought it appropriate, as she was kinda the UberRuth. (Plus the “Crazy Canadians” line.) However, the, uh, needs of the story required her to be not so effectual at her job, so Dumbiverse Chloe never got that sardonic edge. Oh well.
And this is the second time I use “transgender” as a verb in this webcomic. Argh, you’ll figure it out eventually, kid.
Tomorrow, back to horrific vision strips.
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always fun when someone tells you your embarrassing secrets are boring and just buy the thing and GTFO already
When young I never went to my regular pharmacy to buy these. Embarrassing enough for us introverts to be buying them in front of a person–better to make it a stranger.
Yet another thing to like about self checkout kiosks. The computer doesn’t judge you.
You sure about that? The coupons they automatically print out are a little too on point sometimes.
“Haha here’s $1 off ten frozen dinners, you single loser who can’t cook!”
Plus at CVS, you get the added bonus of a receipt that prints for 5 minutes and ends up being longer than your body .
I may be older than you, as the time I’m speaking about predated UPC scanners.
I never had a cashier call over the PA for “a price check on condoms”, however.
AKA: every emergency room nurse ever.
“Yes yes, you’ve got a dildo stuck in you. That’s the 20th one this week, you’re boring, kid.”
…years? Don’t they have an expiration date?
I just looked it up, and apparently they can be good for up to five years. Improper storage can shorten that a lot, though.
I’m pretty sure Joe keeps several of them in his wallet.
But knowing Joe they aren’t likely to stay there for five days, let alone five years.
I mean, if you’re willing to compromise faithfulness to the original material enough to add the ‘H’ to Chloe’s name, it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch to knock two other little letters off the page…
I’m too lazy to find the original strip, did it not used to have an H?
If it causes harm, I will gladly change it! I just didn’t want to brick over my ignorance.
Technically, you’re using it as an adjective here.
Haha family-less size.
The “You’re embarrassing me” line has really stuck with me over the years.
I mean, let’s not rule out the possibility of her growing into a sardonic Chloe, especially after a Residence Manager job.
Giga Pudding
The box of condoms needs an oversized comedy prop tag.
Haha I just noticed it says “family-less size”
Well, yeah I guess that’s how those work
Too bad Chloe has never heard the whole story.
Is this an actual thing with the store clerk in a glass box?
In areas with higher crime rates.
Depends on what kind of neighborhood the convenience store is in, but… yes. Yes it is. Convenience stores are somewhere in the top 5 list for “rob a [place]” fill-in-the-blank.
I’m guessing some convenience stores have their clerks in a glass box, but I’ve never been to one of them. The only places I’ve ever been to with that setup are movie theaters.
I suppose it’s not all that odd. It’s just something that I associated with my childhood (1970s), when banks, post offices, ticket offices, etc were walled off with “bulletproof” glass.
Presumably it’s also less because desperados are constantly running in and out with guns blazing and more because it gives the clerk peace of mind and the owner lower insurance rates.
If it makes you feel any better about yourself, this is only a few years out from when that was still a common term within the community itself. I have a couple friends who transitioned in the ’80s who get incredibly pissed off over it changing (or rather over people who give them shit over still self-identifying with the -ed when it’s what they’ve used for decades.)
Trans terminology has evolved very very fast since the early 2000s, and if you haven’t been along for the ride the entire time it’s easy not to realize how quickly some of the things that were totally acceptable as little as 15 or so years ago have changed. (This isn’t meant as a criticism of that, the whole rapid shift is a sign of just how amazingly the number of people being open and honest about who they are has grown for there to be these conversations about how the terminology can be better.) So you weren’t doing as bad as you think!
Yeah, I had remembered that this word’s acceptability had evolved, but at this point in my life, I’m bad at remembering whether it was in the past thirty years or in the past twenty, and it felt like “an excuse!!!” so I didn’t bring it up.
Speaking as someone who is trans, even to the point of having been on hormone therapy, I try to make it my personal policy not to get upset about people’s terminology unless they seem to be malicious / dismissive with it. If someone is genuinely trying to be nice and respectful, then that’s enough for me.
I should also add, I’ve had problems myself at times being sure how the terminology works. When I was first figuring things out I referred to myself as “transsexual”, because “transgender” made me think of gender being changed rather than of physical sex being changed, but, I’m pretty sure that’s not in vogue anymore. So I guess I do worry at times about offending my own demographic? *shrug*
I’m still not sure if I prefer this version of Chloe or the DoA version of her better.
Huh, in the last few pages I was thinking “you’re not the only guy to compare ding-dings with his girlfriend, buddy” so it’s nice to see that acknowledged on-page.