Sunday, July 27, 2008

Tomorrow, the world

Today's Comics Curmudgeon is making me laugh, specifically this panel I'll repeat:


It's been well-established that Lu Ann is not the sharpest tool in the shed, hence her wild excitement. Hell, at least it's not North Dakota, as the scars from a single childhood visit are still deeply rooted in my brain. But this does remind me of my first-ever professional business trip, back in my days at Craphole Industries, because I was just about that ecstatic to go and dispense three days' worth of editorial wisdom to our sister company...in Winnipeg.

Maybe it speaks to my weird affinity for Canada? Because it was dry but freeeeezing February, if memory serves, and the meetings were excruciating at best. But I remember arriving at at the hotel at two in the morning, and finding it the nicest place I had ever been, ever, because the room featured bathrobes. Never mind the lateness of the hour, I put that thing on and swanned around the room for a while, happily filling out the little room-service-breakfast menu that you hung on the doorknob with the Do Not Disturb sign. Do not disturb me, unless and until you are bringing waffles!

Actually this is still my policy, as well as the bar I set for a promising vacation: room service, and putting in some serious robe time.

2 comments:

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper said...

I so love the Comics Curmudgeon, and that panel just cracked me. SOUTH DAKOTA!

Anonymous said...

I was there for Winnepeg, and I can also boast multiple trips to North Dakota for work. This is just pathetic. I need a different job! Dang.