It was around the time this strip was running that I met my wife. A mutual friend set us up. “You’d like her,” my friend said. “She’s got freckles, long legs and wears short skirts just like Puck.” I guess the friend knew my type.
Consequently, this was the first Puck strip that my wife ever saw. She heard that I did a comic for the Silhouette (she was a part-time MA student at McMaster at the time), so she checked out the paper to see what it was like. She admits that she didn’t get this one at all due to the fact that she wasn’t familiar with the characters.
In retrospect, she was glad that she saw THIS strip and not the one that immediately preceded it. That one might have made the, um, wrong first impression.
You still with the same wife?
… Sorry, is that too personal?
Yes, and no. (As in ‘Yes, same wife,’ and ‘No, not too personal’.)
17 years, more or less, not bad. I didn’t even make it to 17 months. LOL.
The secret … is to just keep going.
Well, in my situation, I married the wrong person. She never wanted to be married, especially to me. (She said this to me in so many words.) But, I’m proud for you and your Mrs. ElectricGecko. LOL.
In my situation, it worked. I’m not a fiftieth percentile person, which is a nice way of saying I’m a bit of an oddball. My wife is also an oddball, in different ways. We’re not the same, but we worked, and it was very evident from a very early stage that we were good for each other. We were only a few months into the relationship when we decided to just set a date. I was still in university when I got married, and everyone sort of thought we were crazy. But whatever. Hindsight is 20/20, but from this vantage, two decades later, I can say with certainty that we knew what we were doing.
I love the “annual twit shot” line. Why do I get the impression that Puck doesn’t like Phoebe? LOL.
I’m proud of that line. It was a good line.
I wish I could come up with lines like that for my stories.
Well. We’re waiting.
Is what I’d put in as a video clip of Judge Smails, for the meme.
Gonna wait a long time.