Fun is in the eye of the beholder

Fun is whatever you decide is fun. If you’ve ever given a kid a Christmas present they were begging for and then watched them completely ignore the present and play with the empty cardboard box, you know what we’re talking about.

In our first comic this week, we go back to Al’s new franchise, PIzza On a Stick, to see how it’s working out. Apparently not so well. The employees, like good employees everywhere, are bored out of their minds. They use the sticks, meant for serving pizzas on sticks, to wage swordfights, leaving the franchise stickless. If you’ve gone inside any fast food chain lately to pick up an order, you’ll recognize the behavior that inspired this comic. Now it’s not just any fast food place, mind you. It’s the places that don’t have drive-thru windows. The places that were designed to encourage people to dine in. Like 5 Guys, which Andy happened to go to before the shelter at home phase of this pandemic response really kicked in. It was right after the last time he ventured outside to play golf, socially distant golf mind you, and he was now hungry. He cautiously ventured inside, cautiously pulling his long-sleeved shirt over his hand to avoid touching the door handle, and saw a completely empty store save for two employees who never bothered to look up, until the third hello (hello? Hello? HELLLLLOOOOO!) One employee finally looked up from his phone and responded while he had to ask the other to go to the grill and start cooking. And by the way, they overcooked the damned burger. Andy also tried hard not to retouch the sleeve he had pulled over his hand but can’t be completely sure he succeeded.

At any rate, the next comic also comes from personal experience. There are some couples where one of the partners enjoys driving with the top down and the other one…doesn’t. This is especially true among bald men (who don’t have any hair to mess up and their wives (who hopefully do). Andy mentioned this to John. And John, being the thoughtful one, said so the only time they’d drive a convertible is on vacation. Which made Andy smile, because those were the only times he’d be driving a convertible. On vacations or commercial shoots. For him it was the sun, the wind, the thrill of the open road. For his wife it was hair pins, baseball caps or tightly wrapped scarves and having to shout in order to get heard. To get back to the title of this blog, fun is in the eye of the beholder.

Well there you go. We promised a week of corona-free comics and we did it. Next week, we will be back with two new ones that refererence our new reality. Unless we forget to send them out because we didn’t realize what day it was. One last thought. A special shout out to Andy’s wife Joanie wishing her a very happy birthday. And how do you celebrate? Movies? Out. Restaurant? Out. Concert, ball game, Broadway show? Out, out, out. Or do you get take-out, pick up a cake and watch Ozark on Netflix? In other words, a night like all the other ones that have preceeded it for three weeks (except for the cake part). Sigh.

Have a great weekend, at least the part of it you don’t spend washing your hands.

Andy and John.