It’s ironic that I drew Selkie head-desking in this strip, because that’s what I’m doing myself at the moment (metaphorically: Selkie’s advice does come from real life experience. XD)
I drew up panels 1-4 then had some second thoughts about my original intent for panels 5-6. Thought I’d take a short break to muse it over… and next thing I know I’m waking up and it’s 6:45. Went a bit long. 😉
So… colors later tonight!
Original plan may or may not have been a venomous space skunk crashing through the wall offering an interstellar alliance between their people and the true masters of Earth, the termites. "Not" being the most likely option.
Person A: Be romantic
Person B: Ok. (Does normal thing) Did I do it right?
Person A: Uggh
Seriously, what did George do wrong here?
Had something similar when I was young with my Mom. She saw someone struggling to put groceries in their car and told me to help. I ask if assistance was needed and the person said no, so I went away. Mom got mad at me and I replied, “Werent you the one to teach me that no means no?” Kinda got her on that one.
I’d get irritated if I said no and the person imposes themselves on me anyway.
It was the way he asked.
What he should have done was got up, gone back to where she was, and said, “Let me help you with that”.
She still might have declined, but he would have tried.
Same with Laughing Target. Instead of asking, “Do you need some help?”, he should have said, “Let may I help you with that, ma’am”.
Week or so back, while walking the dog, I saw a man struggling to get a lawn mower up off the ground into the back of a pickup truck. If I had asked, “Do you need some help?”, he’d most likely have said no, because he was a grown man and grown men don’t need help. Instead I just walked over, leaned over and said, “Lemme give you a hand with that”, and grabbed one side of the mower. He took the other side, we lifted it into the truck, he said, “Thank you”, I said, “You’re welcome”, and me and the dog went our merry way.
He shouldn’t have asked at all because it’s just a coat. Just coming in would have been outright insulting.
Alpo: dunno who your Mom is, but she raised a smart one. My sibs and I were raised to say, “May I give you a hand?” The assumption being that unless they’re a little kid who doesn’t know better, you don’t question if they’re capable, you question if there are objections to your “lending a hand.” With the idea that “The More, The Merrier,” and “many hands make light the work.” Of course there were Small Town Manners, and Big City Manners; the big city was for formal manners, not familiar manners. You don’t touch Anything of Anybody’s in the big city, but that you ask first; under pain of ‘git your hand slapped, and then git told off.’
It wasn’t George who screwed up, it was Te Fahn.
Yep. Selkie tried to get them into close quarters, only to have them behave as regular people rather than the characters from the movie playing in her head. How inconsiderate of them! 😛
Could be worse Selkie.
You could have been born into a species with a nose that protrudes from their skull (like us) supported by a some rather flimsy bone and cartilage.
Selkie’s gonna ruin this thing isn’t she.
She is certainly going to make it awkward to the best of her not-inconsiderable abilities.
Selkie, there are some times, and some places that you can help. And there are some things (like going to the toilet) that are best done alone. Romance is a thing best left to the Principles involved. Also, not every culture has men helping women remove their coats (although that was the norm when n where I was reared).