SPRINGTIME WATERFALL NONSENSE
Just a little May nonsense for a celebration of spring! Vote for Puck on TWC to experience the refreshing vibes!
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As for this comic...
I feel, at some point, that the blame can't really go to Phoebe because she was woefully incapable of fulfilling the role of navigator from the very beginning. Everyone should have known that but they let her do it anyway. Like, if you let your golden retriever make peanut butter cookies and the kitchen ends up a disaster, is it really the dog's fault? I think not.
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Chapter: Jinkies!Characters: Colin Daphne Phoebe Puck Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: directions phone skubagon
SPRINGTIME WATERFALL NONSENSE
Just a little May nonsense for a celebration of spring! Vote for Puck on TWC to experience the refreshing vibes!
VOTE TO GET YOUR TOES WET!!!
As for this comic...
I feel, at some point, that the blame can't really go to Phoebe because she was woefully incapable of fulfilling the role of navigator from the very beginning. Everyone should have known that but they let her do it anyway. Like, if you let your golden retriever make peanut butter cookies and the kitchen ends up a disaster, is it really the dog's fault? I think not.
Hooo boy. This does not seem to bode well. Has Puck ever been this mad before?
Although, I’m kind of surprised that Colin is still in the driver’s seat.
She’s been plenty mad before. The fact that no property or person has yet been damaged means that this anger, though scary, is not the peak of the anger hill.
I mean, every one in the back seat is hiding.
Hey, better to be safe than sorry.
Hiding? Or getting back to business before the explosion?
Hiding. Can’t get back to business unless you can survive the shockwave.
colin is channeling his inner opossum – as long as you don´t move, the predator won´t notice you
Exactly.
It worked for Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
“I feel, at some point, that the blame can’t really go to Phoebe because she was woefully incapable of fulfilling the role of navigator from the very beginning.”
But, but… isn’t Velma supposed to be the smart one?
Hence, the sweet irony instead of sweet corn, eh?
If only brains came with the orange knee socks.
Who’s idea was this to begin with? Did they formally assign the role of navigator to Phoebe?
Come to that, by default the driver is navigator, unless they assign the job to someone else.
And generally speaking, whenever planning a long trip, you spend the night before bent over road maps to plan your trip. Especially when you have little kids or others who need regular rest stops.
In reality, you can blame the phone as much as you can blame the van for “breaking down”. The problem is the person using them.
“And generally speaking, whenever planning a long trip, you spend the night before bent over road maps to plan your trip.” While this is a smart and recommended thing, I’d go out on a limb and say that in this phone navigation generation today, about 5% of people use road maps. Most people just let their phones do the work. And the phones do a very good job. Until they don’t.
Yeah, I’d say I don’t use road maps at all. That said, I do usually spend the night before (if not days or weeks sooner) looking at the mapped gps route so I can see how long it says it’ll take (so I can plan on a time to leave at) and make sure on where it’s bringing me (especially if I’ve never been there).
I admit, I still set the gps for going to my mother’s, even after several years (granted, I only go a few times a year if that). But at this point it’s more of a backup/confirmation that I am remembering the route correctly. 😛
The whole pretense of your argument is that the driver – in this case, Colin – actually has the AUTHORITY to assign “roles” for passengers/navigators. If you believe that Colin has ANY authority in him, then I have some lakefront property that just came for sale on beautiful Hamilton harbour…
What a beautiful harbour it is, too.
Colin has authority for the sake of taking the blame, not authority for the sake of actually being in charge.
Colin has authority of ANY type? Really?
Colin has responsibility but no authority. this is the Pepto-Bismol section.
After more than 20 years in software and hardware development and support, I’ve adopted the catch-all expression “PICNIC”: Problem in chair, not in computer.
In this case, though, those in the crowd who are old enough for us to consider as adults are woefully under-parented, probably the children of boomers or their descendants.
Or woefully over-parented, as the case may be.
Looks like Puck should’a played Velma after all.
I feel like she’s equally unqualified.
just ask yourself who’s more likely to break a nail Phoebe or Puck?
Puck, because she gets more punchy-punchy…
Eh, who knows, maybe everybody went there instead of the convention centre . . .
A happy accident.
The last time I used MapQuest (or whatever it was) to find a local business, it took me down a dirt road and stranded me in the middle of nowhere.
That’s why it was the last time I used it.
Yeah, that happens. The systems have improved. Google Maps rarely steers you wrong if you’re in a city or developed area. Though even the best navigation software doesn’t help when you enter the wrong destination.
Auto club trip planning services seem much more reliable than even today’s web-accessible tools. I’ve done a double handful of several thousand mile round trips across the US and the assistance from AAA has been first rate; supplementary topographic maps from USGS have added relish.
So how did this band of nincompoops get to be the way they are, anyhow?
If only we knew. Though I’ve spent the better part of twenty-four years documenting their nonsense, so if we don’t have an answer by now, I guess we never will.
there are some things man was not meant to know. Woman too. though women know more than men, just ask them.
Phoebe made a mistake, but they all trusted her smart phone too, so it’s not really fair to blame her entirely.
Of course, as they say, “fair” is only a place where you eat cotton candy and ride the Tilt-A-Whirl.
Now I want cotton candy.
I can’t help but notice we haven’t seen Miranda in a few panels. I hope this is coincidence.
I guess that Daphne and Tyler are the next targets of Puck’s rage.
Rage train gotta stop somewhere. I’ll put Miranda in a shot next comic just to keep people from asking questions. She’s in the back seat. Probably asleep.
Kind of like “MY COUSIN VINNY” when he was finally making progressive strides in the car even with all of the contempt of court stuff. He slept better in prison because it was a proxy for NYC. Which I hope that most people can understand the absurdity of it even to be considered to be equated.
So, perhaps Miranda is already asleep thinking, in true McKenzie fashion, “I didn’t do it. It was like that when I found it, eh? ” then Daphne and Tyler just need to keep deflecting any Ire-full gazes away from their canoodling.
Well, perhaps a vehicle full of angry people is comforting for Miranda. But it’s also after midnight and kids are wired until they’re not. From my experience, you put a young kid in a moving vehicle and it’s ‘lights out’ within minutes.
Or adults. According to my mom.
Daphne and Tyler have his mom’s Jamaican queen rage waiting ominously for them at the end of the road. Her rage, I suspect, is a match equal to that of Puck’s fury.
I realize that ‘angry mothers’ is now an established trope in this comic. But yeah, I think Tyler will be facing that on his own. Daphne’s going to stay FAR away from that.
Daphne would like Miranda to sleep. that will stop the stink-eye.
I think everyone is too tired and annoyed to care now.
Shoulda tried to find the Blues Brothers convention..
(meanwhile.. a car plows through the mall, despite numerous signs asking fans to PLEASE NOT do that).
They should have a fake section of mall at that convention just for driving through.
Just like a “Starsky and Hutch” convention where you get to swerve through a wall of cardboard boxes…
Nine To Nine did Tetri-Con some time ago – I hate to think what probably happened when a row of parking spaces was full…
Wow! Bathing beauty votey.
Bath time not laugh time.
Puck, is that any way to treat the person that’s probably your only friend? (Colin doesn’t count, he’s your husband and stuck with you.)
He’s only mostly her husband. There’s a big difference between mustly husband and all husband.
What’s the differnce Miracle Max?
No. It isn’t. Even if she’s a twit.
I’m getting flashbacks to the amusement park arc.
Who has Miranda’s papers?
Poor Phoebs.
Yeah, shades of amusement park.
Still fun.
Mostly because I have a death wish…
“So, Puck… who’s idea was it to let Phoebe Navigate in the first place? Who thought this was a good idea anyway?”
I will see you all on the other side of the grave…
Well, Phoebe nominated herself. Though Puck didn’t object. For the record, Colin DID object, so he can claim some level of blamelessness in this whole thing.
Any level is precious.
Voting Incentive is very incentiviting.
Well, we need to incentivize with the best of them, so we do what we can.
And here I thought Vekma was the smart one.
So thought we all.
Phoebe learned an important GPS lesson that day, as did we all. 🙂
That lesson is … turn off the GPS. Go get a map instead.