Blasts from the Past
Who should have stayed there.
We’ve been meeting a lot of people the last couple weeks. Parents… strangers…
And now, people we used to know.
She seems like a such a nice old woman. What could have possibly happened that would create such animosity and resentment?
I’m really amused by that comic and wish I could remember how it came about. It’s from 2016 and I’d have to imagine it’s just fiction. My elementary school teachers were all sweet and every few years in my teens and 20s, I’d happen upon my kindergarten teacher at the grocery store. She always gave me a hug and said she’d never forget me. What a sweetheart.
It’s probably been 13 or 14 years since our last grocery store meeting…
This strip has nothing to do with what I just said about how long it’s been since I last saw my kindergarten teacher. I’m sure she’s doing great. I just don’t shop at that store anymore.
I’m pretty sure that strip is a complete transcript of a conversation Frega and I had in 2017. We were in the kitchen, I believe. I had Buddy’s lines and she said Romeo’s.
Here it comes. True confession. When I was in college, I ran into one of my high school classmates at Bed Bath and Beyond. Sometimes in conversation, I may eagerly echo what the other person is saying because I’m so amazed that another human being wanted to talk to me and I’m desperately trying to relate to them. At the time of our floor-to-ceiling towel aisle reunion, I’d put on the freshman 15 (of pure muscle, actually, and I’m not kidding) and I very nearly fell into the social catastrophe that Buddy finds himself in in the last panel when she said “You’ve really bulked up.” That was a close one.
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Wanna be reunited with a tool named Rattail and his basic b wife Ponytail? Stick around after the paywall to meet a couple of jerks from Buddy and Romeo’s high school years and for 30 years of men’s haircut analysis.
On that note, who better to send us across the paywall to talk about hair than America’s favorite short, stocky bald man…
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