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I thought it was time to do a little retrospective, so here we go! I’ve been running constant voting incentives on TWC for years now, so dive into the vault and relive some real gems. Every couple of days this February, a new “classic” Phoebe voting incentive is popping up on TWC! If you never saw these pics the first time or you want to see ‘em again, be sure to vote often and catch ‘em all!
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As for the comic…
I have to admit that I’ve never really carried any of the listed documentation for either of my children. They only give you one copy of this stuff for each kid, and that means one parent’s probably going to go without. My wife carries the small stack of cards for both my kids (and rightly complains about how her wallet is always exploding from the burden), even though I’m often shuttling the kids around by my lonesome. So in Colin’s defence, I really do think that most dads would be in a similar situation if they were asked such a question. Not all, but most.
Colin should feel lucky. I was born on the other side of the country so my parents lost my birth certificate. Imagine trying to explain “I’m waiting for it to come in the mail” when my parents lost me at Six Flags
Yeah, I honestly think many parents are in Colin’s boat most of the time. But seriously, this exact same thing happened to you at Six Flags? Wacky!
Uh, what the heck? I NEVER carried any of those gestopo documents with for the kids…even when traveling. Cops don’t like it? KMWA. 🙂
Keep living the life of the rebel, man. We’re all behind you here.
Now that I’ve thought about this what are the stats for kids being taken away by the authorities because the mother had the docs and the father didn’t.
I’d think all it could take would be a traffic stop and bad attitudes all around.
So i pulled you over for speeding, but are these your kids?
uh yeah what of it?
have there papers?
uh the wife has them.
Well have your wife swing by child services to pick them up. in the mean time step out of the car and put your hands behind you back you kidnapping piece of Sh@t.
Granted worst case scenario but the door is open for this type of thing. and not by just police or security guards. I could see shop owners and just general a$$hats seeing something they don’t like or agree with and demanding papers and if you can’t produce them police being called. I’m betting this is just my ignorance about all this, there must be more rules of who and what can play this out.
BTW not trying to give police a hard time here they get enough from other sources for there very necessary largely thankless jobs.
If you look it up, this sort of thing (unfortunately) does happen. Usually it’s a dad with a toddler who’s screaming in a store, and store clerks think the kid’s being abducted. Happens often, really.
Why on earth would the store clerks think the child is being abducted???
Babies cry, that’s a given.
Well, I’m not saying the store clerks are smart.
…I’m guessing this going to end with Puck figuratively biting the guard’s head off.
I think her rage will be directed at others, but some biting may be involved.
Biting, nibbling – tomato, tomahto…
Puck MAY be able to convince the guard that’s her kid without plastic… by pointing out they have matching ears.
Well, I would accept pictures of the parent and kid in the same photo.
What is this health card?
Pictures would work too. Better than the I.D. actually, but something tells me that Colin is not the kind of dad who carries around pictures of the happy family. And the health card has to do with the devilish public health care system we have in Canada. (Ooh! So SCARY!) You show your health card whenever you go to the doctor or a hospital. It’s critical stuff and parents are supposed to carry their kids’ cards at all times. Except they only give you one.
No photos on his phone from the baby puking on either Puck, Phoebe or Daphne? Although Daphne would be the one to have pics of those, along with the aftermath and such of the aforementioned (sans self) and Colin.
But I’m being that if their was a photo, it’d be on Tyler’s phone.
Or, given Puck’s luck, she’d be taking a picture of Colin holding Miranda and clicks just before the spew males contact, obscuring half of the recognizable features, wouldn’t it?
Colin doesn’t have a phone. We’d previously established that after people were wondering why he didn’t just call Puck when he really needed to pee. He can’t. He’s stuck in the middle part of the 20th century. Like me.
Question, will the Phoebe retrospective be offered as a collection at any time?
Dude, ALL of the voting incentives have been in a collection in the store for the past year. I’m going to update it to include last year soon, though, I’ll tell you when.
HE CALLED ME DUDE!!
Now I can abide.
Oh yeah? Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
???
must be something in the water in Canada that makes people think parents would carry such documentation everywhere they go.
I have yet to meet anybody who does that.
Canada is like the United States, only WAY more rules-oriented and ‘safety-conscious’. Our cars’ headlights are on during the day. Seriously. You can’t turn them off. They’re designed that way.
I bought a used car once that had this headlight “feature”. Not to bad except if you actually have the lights on for night driving and then do something dumb like shut your car off THEN the lights…they stayed on… you had to restart your car shut the lights off and then shut the car off. And lets not even get started on replacing headlights. this one works now but the other doesn’t. high beams the one that didn’t work now does and the one you just replaced goes out. took much fiddling and a little luck to get them working. ugh, never again.
Canadian cars have ‘daytime running lights’ that automatically come on and turn off when you start/stop the car. They’re not quite as bright as the nighttime lights, so you can brighten your lights by throwing the switch at night. The concept is that the lights provide an added level of visibility. Honestly, I think it sort of makes sense.
They do all this safety stuff, and then still paint some cars the same color as the road (or snow).
All cars should be safety yellow.
A number of American model cars have that now, have had it for a couple decades. Reactions are mixed.
Some states have rules requiring cars to have headlights on when windshield wipers are in use.
Well, something about it probably goes against the whole ‘civil liberty’ thing with Americans. I can just hear people in Texas saying “I don’t want NOBODY turning on my own damn lights ‘cept ME!”
Well, I was worried about the drain on the battery…
DRLs don’t drain the battery because the alternator is powering the system and keeping the battery topped up.
It doesn’t burn much extra fuel, either.
A few years ago a science guy did some maths on the cost of hauling around the extra stuff in your car.
If you had an lost penny find it’s way between your seats, and nothing else “extra” was in your car (except you); you would have to drive something like 2.5 million miles before that penny would cost you a penny in extra gas.
And, somehow, he equated that to having headlamps on all the time.
I am so confused now….
I wonder if the guard has come across this kind of parent before, the “my wife has the documents but you have to let me take the kid or she’s going to kill me if she find out” kind of parent, assuming Puck has the docs. She probably doesn’t need them as he raging “mama bear” instinct would provide adequate proof.
Well, he’s come across that exact scenario right now. So it’ll be a learning experience for him.
Here in the states, there is no such thing as a health card, and the birth certificate is a big sheet of paper (I understand there are smaller versions of it, but they aren’t “official”)… it would have to get folded up very small to be carried in a wallet, and is, hence, generally kept safely ina folder at home.
Regardless, this seems unlikely to end as desired.
Birth certificates come in a few forms up here, but one of them is a small laminated card for wallets. I have mine in my wallet. But Canadians are way bigger on small bits of plastic in your wallet. I once read a study that said Canadians are way more likely than Americans to (A) never carry cash and pay for everything on credit or debit, and (B) be a member of two or more rewards programs like Air Miles. We love our plastic. We hate our cash. Why do you think we killed the penny?
Yeah, here in the States that piece of paper is usually kept safe at home cause losing it is a pain in the arse to replace. That, and no one ever asks for it to prove that the kid is yours. Different cultures. 🙂 Course, Colin’s “method” of retrieving his kid was… highly suspicious seeming. 😛
If you look sketchy like Colin and are as stupid as Colin, people will question you on everything.
I dunno about Canada, but most teachers here in the states look pretty normal – although there are some sketchy looking people in just about all jobs. Also – most of the teachers I’ve known are not quite as stupid as Colin appears to be (otherwise they are driven from teaching by the sheer difficulty of the job if you are not at least of reasonable common sense – which Colin apparently is sorely lacking).
I’m living proof that you can be a Grade-A idiot and be a teacher. (Not a good teacher, but a teacher.)
I am so getting ALL of the voting incentives! (Mostly because odds are I haven’t seen half of them and I’m curious how they look).
As for the comic, I do agree on the guard that kind of moron being called a ‘parent’ but in COLIN’S defense… Seriously, who the hell carries those things around? …Except your wife, I mean.
I have yet to meet a single person (including my best friend who has 2 kids herself) carry those things around.
Somehow I doubt Puck is carrying these documents for Miranda, too. She’ll just have to come down with righteous wrath on this guy—at least, once she gets through with Colin…
Enh, moms always have this sort of thing. Not sure where she’s keeping it, though, seeing as she didn’t really have a purse in earlier pics. Maybe the purse is being kept in hammerspace like Daphne’s backpack.
well, there IS Miranda’s reaction when she sees Puck.
Of course, an infant’s vision is severely range-limitted (best focus distance for newbornes is about 2 feet). Puck would have to get rather close to get a reaction from Miranda seeing her.
Of course, this is Puck’s child. Who knows how she would react to seeing Puck. It’s not exactly guaranteed to be a favorable reaction.
Yeah, I wouldn’t count on Miranda’s reaction being a great indicator, but who knows? Babies do love their moms.
MOST babies. We’re talking Puck here
There’s a very good reason for that… It’s called “lunch”.
Just because they’re babies, doesn’t mean they don’t at least have a basic survival instinct to gravitate to the boobs. [chuckles]
Likely to be at least partially why many dads are left out of the favorite parent candidacy… They don’t have the meals-on-wheels that the moms have. ;1
Well, true enough.
I had a friend who got in a particularly sticky version of this situation in a grocery when his little daughter had a tantrum, insisting loudly that she did *not* want to go. He did not physically look like her, something which can happen when a very pale blonde and a very dark-skinned person marries. He distinctly remembered looking around at a gathering storm cloud of concerned citizens and thinking, “I am dead”.
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Have you considered marketing that voting incentive to one of those pregnancy-testing companies? It’s so much more festive than that little plus sign!
That has got to be the best idea I’ve heard all year! Errr, just realized how that sounded. Really, I think it’s a great idea!
Yeah, it’s one of those things were you’re very rarely put in a situation where you need to prove your kid is actually your kid, but when you are, it’s actually kind of hard to do.
I have twins, and when they were little, my wife and I each carried one health card. Worst situation you could always lie about the kid’s name.
Brilliant.
Colin, respect the man here! He’s taking precautions here, y’know, like you should! Besides, think of it as a learning experience for the next child . . . oh come on Colin, there’s no need to faint!
Well, precautions need to be taken. I’d honestly not fault either of the parties here. Guard’s doing his job. Colin’s your typical dad, not thinking about this stuff. It’s just that the universe is stacked against him.
My parents had a laminated card with a piccy of me called a KidFinder. The piccy was updated every three years. My Dad still carries his that shows me at age twelve, with braces. I need to destroy that.
Heath Card, nope. Birth certificate? Nope
KidFinder. Well, that’s one way to do it.
“I need to destroy that.” Good luck on that. Something tells me your Dad would choose having his wisdom teeth extracted without anesthesia rather than let go of that picture.
Grr, are you psychic or something?
Colin’s smile was one of the creepiest smiles I’ve ever seen. Reminded me of the Beast (From Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) when he was trying to do a kind smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZM9nynjAdM
That’s because it’s a smile of fear. The beast smile is a good comparison, because when we pull a fake smile, we actually use the fear muscles. The ‘fear smile’ muscles are much easier to consciously control than the real smile muscles.
Awesome, you learn something new everyday. That’s why fake smiles are so crummy over a genuine smile, different muscles.
There’s an evolutionary reason we can’t fake smiles too: it’d be too complex socially. As it is, we tend to be able to read when someone’s genuinely happy or not. Good to know, so you can let your guard down when they’re carrying clubs.
Y’know, “what kind of a weirdo do you think I am?” really opens a lot of doors…
Doors that need to be opened.
… *facepalms*
…
*gentle sobbing*
But good job, Mr. Security Guard.
Well done.
That’s a reasonable response.
Thank you. ^_^
so would photocopy of either of those work? cause growing up those types of documents got placed in filing spaces.
I would assume yes. Really, I honestly think if you showed anything that remotely indicated that you were a parent of some type, I think you’d be in the clear.
Lol for a minute there, I thought I’d been catapulted back to 80s East Berlin or something.
You’d think that a wallet-sized family shot would suffice 😀
Well, it IS Canada. We’re about as close to a communist country as most Americans get.