I haven’t been to a Ren Faire in years but it’s an 8 hour drive and across the border plus neither one of us can walk around all day anymore so we probably won’t be going again 🙁
I can recommend this one though if anyone is close enough to it, it’s a lot of fun and it’s HUGE !!! We’ve been there several times but not for about ten years, and we always looked forward to going back. You can get lots of things on sticks too 🙂
If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
At least it wasn’t one, or both, of the kids casually mentioning they needed something for a big project/presentation/bakesale…at eight PM the day before it’s due.
AND NOW THE CURSE IS YOURS!!!!!!
My trunk keeps opening for no reason. Best I can guess, the trunk button in the key chain gets held down in my pocket.
Bun warmers and a heated steering wheel !!!
Oddly enough, our last car didn’t have a trunk release of any kind except on the key fob, what looked like a keyhole was a fake, I guess it was to give crooks something to do until the police showed up 🙂
There was a sudden hailstorm in the town we lived in out west, with hailstones the size of your fist. There was millions of dollars in damage to car dealer lots alone plus other people’s parked cars and other things. Luckily ours was parked in an area that didn’t get the hail. Those storms were funny, it might be hailing on one side of the street and nothing on the other.
There’s no point waiting for the ‘push pull or drag’ guaranteed trace-in price sale, they just increase the sale price to cover it. We wanted to get a new one a few years ago and some that looked exactly like ours with WAY higher mileage were going for around $10,000 so we expected a decent tradein. They offered us $1100 !! We walked out, kept the car for another 7 years and eventually sold it out of the driveway to someone passing by, with a rusted out frame and a busted transmission for….$1100. I hate used car dealers. I know they have to feed their families too, but not caviar and truffles !! Maybe skip the huge fancy chrome and glass buildings and sell cars for decent prices ?
We leased a car that had been a rental on a one-year lease, never had a problem with it and almost bought it at the end of the lease, but other people have had horror stories about ex-rentals so I’d be iffy on buying one without trying it first. The worst one we ever had was a lease return, it was a very, very nice luxury car that was only a year old and within six months we’d made a half dozen trips for warranty work including changing the transmission six weeks after we bought it. Hubby used to say it got great mileage because it got towed a lot.
This comic showcases really well what I love most about your drawing style: your use of perspective, especially in the character faces.
Stick Wendy going from wide mouth chatting, to splitting the face smile, to huge worried eyes was a delight.
Bun warmers, heated steering wheels and an electric windshield defroster should be mandatory safety equipment on all vehicles sold here, with a built in covered port to plug an extension cord into so you can turn them on before you go out of the house.
We rented a car last week to go to the city. All I want for xmas is twenty minutes alone with whoever thought putting touch screens in a car that you have to lean waaayyy over to reach and go through five menus to change the radio was a good idea…and a big stick…and another half hour with whoever thought using a knob for a gearshift was in the slightest bit safe.
My favorite was when I (in my early 30’s), with my fiancé (also early 30’s), went to look at a car and NO EMPLOYEE TALKED TO US. Like they went straight over to my mum (60’s, drove us) and asked what SHE was looking for. When she pointed out we needed the car, they got this sour, disappointed look like somehow we weren’t capable of buying a car? Despite being adults? Car salesmen either A: dismiss you because of age/gender/race/perceived socioeconomic status, or B: shower you with compliments because of the same.
We were looking for a particular type of car, a convertible, and dropped into a car dealers when we were in the city to look at them and also some larger cars and SUV’s. We weren’t dressed formally, jeans and t-shirts and hubby had his usual leather vest and hat on, and the salesman kept steering us back to the smallest cheapest cars on the lot every time we looked at something else. Hubby was getting pissed and was about tell him that between us we made probably five times what he did, or more, and could afford anything we wanted, but we decided to take one of their convertibles for a test drive…the guy insisted on coming with us, like we were going to steal it…his mistake, we tore it to shreds in front of him all the way “who designed this ?” “why can’t you put anything in the trunk with the top down ?” ‘It drives like a wheelbarrow in mud”, etc. We ended up buying a different one we really liked then drove it through the lot and told that salesman in front of his customers that if he’d just sold us what we wanted instead of trying to make us feel like we couldn’t afford it he could have made a nice commission but now we’d be telling everyone we knew not to buy anything there.
You can’t even play one saleman against another around here because they’re all related and the same guy owns half the dealerships.
The only thing we found that worked was bringing in an ad printed from a city a couple of provinces over where the cars were made, pointing out that they wanted almost five thousand dollars less for the exact same model at the dealer’s there, let alone off the factory lot, and that it wouldn’t cost us nearly half of that to fly up and drive home, even counting hotels, gas and meals, and we wouldn’t pay their ridiculous fifteen hundred dollar ‘delivery fee’ picking it up there. The sales manager was so completely shocked that anyone would go out of town to buy anything that he matched the price, provided we didn’t tell anyone he had…but of course we told everyone we could 🙂
I was part of a cross city scavenger hunt and one of the things we had to get was business card from a car dealership.
We figured a quick run in grabb the card at the front desk and then get out.
Well that just worked for the first two then they took the the cards away. and we had to get a card from one of the dealers, who wouldn’t give it until after they gave their car speil.
2 thoughts on “#1544 Hereditary”
Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
Never been. What can I get onna stick?
Llywenna
I haven’t been to a Ren Faire in years but it’s an 8 hour drive and across the border plus neither one of us can walk around all day anymore so we probably won’t be going again 🙁
I can recommend this one though if anyone is close enough to it, it’s a lot of fun and it’s HUGE !!! We’ve been there several times but not for about ten years, and we always looked forward to going back. You can get lots of things on sticks too 🙂
https://www.kingrichardsfaire.net/
One thought on “#1543 Planning”
Llywenna
If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
At least it wasn’t one, or both, of the kids casually mentioning they needed something for a big project/presentation/bakesale…at eight PM the day before it’s due.
4 thoughts on “#1542 Features”
Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
AND NOW THE CURSE IS YOURS!!!!!!
My trunk keeps opening for no reason. Best I can guess, the trunk button in the key chain gets held down in my pocket.
VallariaGreen
When I got my new car, my favorite feature was the sunroof. Now it’s the heated steering wheel in the winter.
notStanley
>heated steering wheel
Gloves have taken care of that for me :}
Llywenna
Bun warmers and a heated steering wheel !!!
Oddly enough, our last car didn’t have a trunk release of any kind except on the key fob, what looked like a keyhole was a fake, I guess it was to give crooks something to do until the police showed up 🙂
One thought on “#1541 Purchase”
Llywenna
There was a sudden hailstorm in the town we lived in out west, with hailstones the size of your fist. There was millions of dollars in damage to car dealer lots alone plus other people’s parked cars and other things. Luckily ours was parked in an area that didn’t get the hail. Those storms were funny, it might be hailing on one side of the street and nothing on the other.
One thought on “#1540 Trade In”
Llywenna
There’s no point waiting for the ‘push pull or drag’ guaranteed trace-in price sale, they just increase the sale price to cover it. We wanted to get a new one a few years ago and some that looked exactly like ours with WAY higher mileage were going for around $10,000 so we expected a decent tradein. They offered us $1100 !! We walked out, kept the car for another 7 years and eventually sold it out of the driveway to someone passing by, with a rusted out frame and a busted transmission for….$1100. I hate used car dealers. I know they have to feed their families too, but not caviar and truffles !! Maybe skip the huge fancy chrome and glass buildings and sell cars for decent prices ?
2 thoughts on “#1539 In Stock”
Llywenna
We leased a car that had been a rental on a one-year lease, never had a problem with it and almost bought it at the end of the lease, but other people have had horror stories about ex-rentals so I’d be iffy on buying one without trying it first. The worst one we ever had was a lease return, it was a very, very nice luxury car that was only a year old and within six months we’d made a half dozen trips for warranty work including changing the transmission six weeks after we bought it. Hubby used to say it got great mileage because it got towed a lot.
Cyfrin
This comic showcases really well what I love most about your drawing style: your use of perspective, especially in the character faces.
Stick Wendy going from wide mouth chatting, to splitting the face smile, to huge worried eyes was a delight.
3 thoughts on “#1537 Features”
Cyfrin
As someone who lives in a frozen wasteland and has legs for days, all I want in a car is seat warmers and enough space for me to fit.
Llywenna
Bun warmers, heated steering wheels and an electric windshield defroster should be mandatory safety equipment on all vehicles sold here, with a built in covered port to plug an extension cord into so you can turn them on before you go out of the house.
Llywenna
We rented a car last week to go to the city. All I want for xmas is twenty minutes alone with whoever thought putting touch screens in a car that you have to lean waaayyy over to reach and go through five menus to change the radio was a good idea…and a big stick…and another half hour with whoever thought using a knob for a gearshift was in the slightest bit safe.
4 thoughts on “#1536 Fresh”
VallariaGreen
My favorite was when I (in my early 30’s), with my fiancé (also early 30’s), went to look at a car and NO EMPLOYEE TALKED TO US. Like they went straight over to my mum (60’s, drove us) and asked what SHE was looking for. When she pointed out we needed the car, they got this sour, disappointed look like somehow we weren’t capable of buying a car? Despite being adults? Car salesmen either A: dismiss you because of age/gender/race/perceived socioeconomic status, or B: shower you with compliments because of the same.
Llywenna
We were looking for a particular type of car, a convertible, and dropped into a car dealers when we were in the city to look at them and also some larger cars and SUV’s. We weren’t dressed formally, jeans and t-shirts and hubby had his usual leather vest and hat on, and the salesman kept steering us back to the smallest cheapest cars on the lot every time we looked at something else. Hubby was getting pissed and was about tell him that between us we made probably five times what he did, or more, and could afford anything we wanted, but we decided to take one of their convertibles for a test drive…the guy insisted on coming with us, like we were going to steal it…his mistake, we tore it to shreds in front of him all the way “who designed this ?” “why can’t you put anything in the trunk with the top down ?” ‘It drives like a wheelbarrow in mud”, etc. We ended up buying a different one we really liked then drove it through the lot and told that salesman in front of his customers that if he’d just sold us what we wanted instead of trying to make us feel like we couldn’t afford it he could have made a nice commission but now we’d be telling everyone we knew not to buy anything there.
Llywenna
You can’t even play one saleman against another around here because they’re all related and the same guy owns half the dealerships.
The only thing we found that worked was bringing in an ad printed from a city a couple of provinces over where the cars were made, pointing out that they wanted almost five thousand dollars less for the exact same model at the dealer’s there, let alone off the factory lot, and that it wouldn’t cost us nearly half of that to fly up and drive home, even counting hotels, gas and meals, and we wouldn’t pay their ridiculous fifteen hundred dollar ‘delivery fee’ picking it up there. The sales manager was so completely shocked that anyone would go out of town to buy anything that he matched the price, provided we didn’t tell anyone he had…but of course we told everyone we could 🙂
Clay Campbell
I was part of a cross city scavenger hunt and one of the things we had to get was business card from a car dealership.
We figured a quick run in grabb the card at the front desk and then get out.
Well that just worked for the first two then they took the the cards away. and we had to get a card from one of the dealers, who wouldn’t give it until after they gave their car speil.
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