I drew the paninis bigger than in real life because I’m hungry. Snack while drawing, folks.
I was firmly a "if you give me $20 I will spend $20" kid.
I drew the paninis bigger than in real life because I’m hungry. Snack while drawing, folks.
My parents quickly learned to tell me and my brother how much change they expected back.
ha!, you’re lucky they gave you a 20 in the first place… i got the exact change required IF they even let me go get anything in the first place…
Mine were the same way – I was *sooo* tired of the phrase “It’s a waste of money” that when I was a grownup and rebelled completely against that type of thinking I got into some trouble. Ah well. Moderation in everything – even thriftiness.
I am solid believer in debit cards rather than checks or credit cards.
No monthly fees. No float. No worrying at all about what you spent as long as you have the cash for it. I save when I need, but can also spend when I want so long as I have income.
That’s interesting – I am the exact opposite!
Okay, this is REALLY off topic for Dave’s comments section. I don’t want this to turn into a big financial discussion, but… I’ve been using credit cards safely for half a century, and there are a lot of younger people who haven’t really thought about this much, so maybe a word here can help someone.
There’s a reason I don’t want anything to do with a debit card. Credit card companies hate me! because I insist on a LOW credit limit on my card, and then I pay off my entire balance to the penny, every single month. I get to dispute any fraudulent charges (which, granted, is a pretty rare occurrence, but I like the peace of mind of knowing I could), and I am borrowing the money I spend, interest-free, until the end of the month.
Plus, credit card agreements have better consumer protection built into them. Because they could be on the hook for charges made on a stolen card, credit card companies tend to be much more vigilant against fraud. A debit card is a direct tap into your bank account; many agreements explicitly say the company bears no responsibility at all. What incentive does the card-issuing company even have, then, to care about preventing fraud?
Of course, for this to work, you do have to stick to one of the plain vanilla credit cards with no monthly fees, and you really don’t want to use more than one or two of them at most, or else (even with online banking) it’ll become too much of a pain to keep track.
It all comes down to what’s right for you. Debit cards are certainly convenient, and they can keep you from getting in over your head, if that’s a risk. But once you have sensible spending habits established, a simple credit card is a much better deal.
Over here having a credit card makes people ask you why you have one. The vast majority of folks uses… are they debit cards? Bank cards with microchips, you use your pin to make a transaction – in case there’s an issue with the validation process, they also have a magnetic stripe so you can pay the old-fashioned way. There are also – though not 100% sure you can still get them – “electronic Visa card”s, which actually check your bank account’s balance, before letting you to complete the transaction. They don’t have the magnetic stripe, and were at one point the most popular card for ages 15-18, since you couldn’t go over your bank balance.
I was firmly the if you give me 20 bucks, I will spend 5 on myself kid. Not that I wouldn’t have wanted to spend the 20, but what I wanted, I usually would have been hard pressed to get enough for 20 bucks worth. Though I did get in trouble with the returning of bottles from back in the day when you could do that. Drank all of my mom’s rootbeer just so I could return the bottles for penny candy.
That’s pretty funny. Oh the stories we will have to pass on to the next generation… 🙂
I hope we live through the Machine Uprising in our time, so I can have the joy of trying to convince my grandchildren the sky was blue at one point in the past, instead of being a metallic shell.
Says the guy who makes his money by renting digital space on a non-physical “web page”.
I never got money to buy things. I had to use my own from my stash of birthday and holiday money. I saved 40 bucks for years when I was young.
Learned to be frugal, though. Only problem is, now that I have an income, I tend to be all “Whoo! Money!” and buy sweets by the pound when I get groceries.
Ugh. Mine would give me money, not tell me to give them change back, then scream at me when I didn’t. And when I tried to wise up and give change back, it wasn’t enough. Oh, and if I asked how much they wanted back, I was being selfish that I couldn’t figure it out myself.
…why didn’t I realize sooner how screwed up my childhood was?
I never let my daughter order something on her own from a place we haven’t visited together. I like to know what she plans to buy before I give her money to get it.
She has mild dairy allergies, and we try to be careful with the amount of sugar she gets. We’re trying to teach her moderation (she’s about a year younger than Selkie). We do let her go crazy on her Halloween candy the first night she brings it home, though. We also don’t limit how much she eats from her Easter basket (though we don’t load it up compared to the way our folks did).
Huh. Welp that was anticlimactic. But a good anticlimactic.
Often time we read too much into the expressions that are drawn or we see things based on our own opinion from viewing this comic. Involvement is the sign of a good comic, but the author is human and his interpretation of drawing a emotion often doesn’t match our interpretation… but in all honesty, I think it is (expletive) amazing that this author can portray emotion so artistically. Many would take first glance at this work and think its poorly drawn. But this work has a depth and soul that makes it art.
I think I saw Andi’s expression as more annoyed than I should have. But I’m pretty relieved this probably won’t be a shouting match and both talk about what happened more calmly.
Agreed! Until Selkie said she was giving away the bread, I was wondering if she was going to have a huge allergic reaction. And how does one exactly remove melted cheese from bread?
By not ordering cheese in the first place.
She seems fine with cheese. She has eaten stuff with cheese on it. I think? Might be remembering it wrong.
Cheese I think has similar stuff to meat. It’s basically water, milk fat, some calcium and other vitamins.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12487203
Milk and meat are often interconnected allergy wise, and she did eat ice cream.
I think Selkie has an inability to convert plant matter into usable product so her body rejects it violently (no grains, no plant sugar, no vegetables, and no chocolate or vanilla), but dairy shouldn’t be a problem. She may be able to stomach sea plants like carageenan though.
You’ve got the right of it, I think.
The pertinent thing about cheese is that it has to be ‘real’ cheese made from animal product and not spun vegetable oil.
It came up just after Todd brought Selkie home and worked out that she’s an obligate carnivore. They went out to do errands (since Todd, being a vegetarian, had virtually nothing at home that wouldn’t hurt her), and stopped to pick up a chili dog with no bun or beans. Todd had to ask whether or not the cheese they used was imitation/vegetable oil based.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie53/
Oh good. :3 I was worried I remembered wrong. Thank you! :3
I just realized they probably have meat in them as well as cheese. That’s a little easier to imagine her pulling them apart. To pull out only melted cheese from toasted bread seems pretty daunting and messy.
I’m betting it’s easier with claws. Cut the melty cheese ya know.
My parents just took my money for food and housing. My spouce says I am a dragon cause I hord money now.
Technically the single item is “panino” and the plural is “panini”; there is no need for the ‘s’ (Italian 101 FTW)
Poor Todd thought that Selkie was just speaking with her usual “pluralses” (and it wasn’t XD)
I’m surprised that the shop staff prepared all that food and drinks without being paid in advance (it’s for the narrative I know…)
They really should go over how money works with those kids
(that said, I had no self control at that age either(my parents gave only very small amounts of money as a safety measure for that…-_-; ))
((randomly, Dave, is Selkie offering her dad the bread because I asked earlier about parents eating the parts of food their kids don’t like?))
In this case, it’s more a case of the parent eating the parts of food the kid can’t eat.
Meat-eaters eat dinner. Vegetables are what dinner eats to get big enough to be dined upon. I am not espousing a Carnitarian life style, far from it. Mom tells me to eat all the vegetables on my plate, and she’s 90, … I think she must be right.
If I could afford it, and if it didn’t slowly kill me, I’d go carnivore. 😛
Eating the recommended daily dose of veggies for a week probably would kill me; I get horrible constipation and nausea. I actually like many kinds of veggies, I just can’t eat a lot of them without paaaaain.
And no, I’m apparently not allergic to any of them.
It could also be Selkie remembering that Todd’s vegetarian, and won’t eat meat. That’s actually a sort of match made in culinary heaven right there.
Ninja’d there. But yeah, also taking Italian.
Sorry Lilian, I must disagree, what Andi said was kinda funny. Though Mr Fairweather has the funnier zing there.
Yes. 🙂
I’d be more worried about them getting fat from that amount of food. Can’t be healthy. XD
Enh… kids don’t get fat from one big meal. It’s eating habits that count. These are all active, growing kids, well able to burn a lot of calories.
Selkie, in particular, probably calculated like this, a familiar calculation from the school cafeteria: “What haves they gots that I cans eat? Oh, only this paninis things. How much reals foods do theys puts in one– wows, that’s nots verys much. To gets an actuals meals I wills needs threes, fours… better make it fives. Now, that’s mores likes it.”
Fat? No. Moodswings, cavities, and sugar crash. Oh, yes.
Not to mention issues with caffeine.
Not a lot of sugar in meat. Or caffeine. Unless you meant what the orphans ordered.
Just saying, if my mom made the same remark as Andi, it’d be a hoot. XD That’s just the kind of woman she is. In my family there is no such thing as a ‘too soon to be funny’ joke. My brother fractured his elbow this week and is stuck in a sling and can only use one hand. The next day to cheer him up, I asked him, “Do you need a HAND?” He got a huge kick outta it.
But I digress. XD I guess eventually though, when time passes (probably when Amanda’s a teen or in her twenties) and they think back to this day, they’ll probably get a laugh out of it.
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