hmmm one could turn into a sexual harassment but also some fun. the other into some pranks and trouble….
i vote for the lady AT LEAST she knows the job.
I would say to Lowell “Son having a MBA has not given a you business sense. More important Nikki know her way around a bicycle. you don’t . She is hired.”
Lowell has an MBA and has helped Hubris with the paperwork side of the business. He may have grand plans, but, they may be more oriented toward aggressive growth than Hubris would be comfortable with risking.
Nikki seems like she could be really good with customers and the actual product line of the store. Plus, she’s good looking, and all of the Paste clones and thug scout might by stuff to hang around the store.
I think Hubris will hire both, and Nikki will bring in enough business, which will mean more profits and paperwork, leaving Hubris to pursue “field research” in field testing the products, by biking, kayaking, hiking, rock climbing and all that fun part of the outdoors. And by going outdoors, doing more conferences and such, he could be early in finding the demand for new products, like bug, snake, opossum, and varmint repellent. Lowell knows which toys raccoons would like, but raccoons generally don’t have much money, except for RJ at _Over The Hedge_ .
Two employees? Might be expensive. Lowell might be able to pay his house note at basic existence type wages. Unless he took in a roomie. Maybe one who was also at subsistence wages. And tips. One who might be comfortable with a regular diet of Pop Tarts and Soda. Or one who might be comfortable with sprouts and granola.
Okay, here’s the thing. I had NOT envisioned Nikki and Lowell moving in together. Until you guys brought it up. Now it’s killing me. It sounds like a great idea. I have no plans to use the concept… so far. But it’s like an earworm. I might not get it out of my head.
It was just a whim. It isn’t necessary, and I would guess you have this arc in place.
Maybe later, maybe not.
If course, Nikki would need an arsenal of Super Soakers(R) loaded with pepper spray for Lowell, Paste and Paste’s Thug Scouts. Or she probably already has mad skillz for deflecting unwanted attentions.
Maybe she could park her Volkswagen CamperVan somewhere, and live out of that for a while. Young Rollergirls, or Skater punks, whatever she will be, tend to have fluid living situations.
Pretty sure Paste could convince his mom to have his dad pick up Lowell’s housenote to have Nikki nearby. Again, PepperSpray Supersoakers(R).
I will vote for her van in the driveway and having to move in with Lowell. What an odd couple. (though if I could have wheat, twirling a poptart in my green smoothie might make it drinkable, just leave out the green part)
Sorry, the video isn’t called Rollergirl, it is Skateaway, from the Dire Straits album, Making Movies. Has it really been that long ago?
Perhaps you are too young to remember, but that was an awesome video, from early Dire Straits. She had a Walkman(R) or something, and 4 wheel skates! That was at the tail end of the Roller Disco era.
Yeah, a link will get the post blocked until and unless it is approved, but that was a great video from the early days of music videos.
[sighs] And here I was hoping Lowell had grown up some from his time away from the rat race. Ah well.
I guess “shipping” him with Nikki could be a decent consolation… She’d probably tune Him up pretty good too so he’d stop being such a nerf. One can only hope so anyway. ‘Cause Gawd help them all if he rubs off on Her instead. o.O;
If Kara made similarly disparaging remarks about Nikki… she’d better not, at least not where Nikki could hear them. Kara is no weakling, but Nikki looks like someone you’d best not trifle with.
*RMPH* That’s how I feel when I think of the blind, knee-jerk faith placed in mere documents. It’s not just Lowell being Lowell here; the attitude is depressingly widespread. What’s even more exasperating is that many will dismiss marriage as ‘just a piece of paper’ — yet I’ll wager that among them are the same people who take myriad sheepskins like MBAs with the utmost earnestness. An MBA, too, is ‘just a piece of paper,’ right? But no, it’s SO much more than that: it’s ironclad ‘proof’ of a person’s competence, full stop. That he may be demonstrably incompetent is beside the point. What matters is that he has the pieces of paper that SAYS he is qualified, therefore he is, even if he isn’t, and therefore he deserves the job. The non-papered applicant who CAN do the job, and do it well? Not even in the running; she doesn’t have that all-important, mystical document, so she never stood a chance.
NOT saying that this is how Hubris would think; much more likely the opposite. What I am saying is that this is how a lot of people WOULD think.
I’d say Nikki’s got the street creds that dances on the piece of framed wallpaper. Go Nikki Go!
Hubris: “Bob’s job was to work the cash register and defuse angry customers. What’s my opening bid?”
hmmm one could turn into a sexual harassment but also some fun. the other into some pranks and trouble….
i vote for the lady AT LEAST she knows the job.
This one time at Band Camp …
She will have Paste running around like her little hamster.
i would have thought her YAPPY “rat dog” hehe
annnd all of a sudden Hubris is smiling again..
I would say to Lowell “Son having a MBA has not given a you business sense. More important Nikki know her way around a bicycle. you don’t . She is hired.”
From the bottom of my heart – THANK YOU for the pants and shirt on Lowell!
And, I would hope, a long, long shower before donning pants and shirt.
I love her hair…reminds of when I did that ….many years ago……..
Lowell has an MBA and has helped Hubris with the paperwork side of the business. He may have grand plans, but, they may be more oriented toward aggressive growth than Hubris would be comfortable with risking.
Nikki seems like she could be really good with customers and the actual product line of the store. Plus, she’s good looking, and all of the Paste clones and thug scout might by stuff to hang around the store.
I think Hubris will hire both, and Nikki will bring in enough business, which will mean more profits and paperwork, leaving Hubris to pursue “field research” in field testing the products, by biking, kayaking, hiking, rock climbing and all that fun part of the outdoors. And by going outdoors, doing more conferences and such, he could be early in finding the demand for new products, like bug, snake, opossum, and varmint repellent. Lowell knows which toys raccoons would like, but raccoons generally don’t have much money, except for RJ at _Over The Hedge_ .
Two employees? Might be expensive. Lowell might be able to pay his house note at basic existence type wages. Unless he took in a roomie. Maybe one who was also at subsistence wages. And tips. One who might be comfortable with a regular diet of Pop Tarts and Soda. Or one who might be comfortable with sprouts and granola.
A new, zany updated take on The Odd Couple.
That’s brilliant. The oddcouple roomies. Nikki and Lowell. Stranger things have happened to pay the rent, BTDT burned the teeshirt.
Nikki: You got your PopTart(TM) in my Sprout Tofu!
Lowell: You got your Sprout Tofu in my Apple Cinnamon PopTart(TM) .
Both: Nice!
:Hearts: :Hearts: :Hearts:
(For the “food”, not for each other. Not yet, gotta keep the tension working. Maybe in season 5.)
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Okay, here’s the thing. I had NOT envisioned Nikki and Lowell moving in together. Until you guys brought it up. Now it’s killing me. It sounds like a great idea. I have no plans to use the concept… so far. But it’s like an earworm. I might not get it out of my head.
It was just a whim. It isn’t necessary, and I would guess you have this arc in place.
Maybe later, maybe not.
If course, Nikki would need an arsenal of Super Soakers(R) loaded with pepper spray for Lowell, Paste and Paste’s Thug Scouts. Or she probably already has mad skillz for deflecting unwanted attentions.
Maybe she could park her Volkswagen CamperVan somewhere, and live out of that for a while. Young Rollergirls, or Skater punks, whatever she will be, tend to have fluid living situations.
Pretty sure Paste could convince his mom to have his dad pick up Lowell’s housenote to have Nikki nearby. Again, PepperSpray Supersoakers(R).
I’ll just kick back and enjoy the ride.
I will vote for her van in the driveway and having to move in with Lowell. What an odd couple. (though if I could have wheat, twirling a poptart in my green smoothie might make it drinkable, just leave out the green part)
I keep thinking of Nikki as a Rollergirl because of that Dire Straits video.
Sorry, the video isn’t called Rollergirl, it is Skateaway, from the Dire Straits album, Making Movies. Has it really been that long ago?
Perhaps you are too young to remember, but that was an awesome video, from early Dire Straits. She had a Walkman(R) or something, and 4 wheel skates! That was at the tail end of the Roller Disco era.
Yeah, a link will get the post blocked until and unless it is approved, but that was a great video from the early days of music videos.
https://youtu.be/xQBKUPwG_Gk
[sighs] And here I was hoping Lowell had grown up some from his time away from the rat race. Ah well.
I guess “shipping” him with Nikki could be a decent consolation… She’d probably tune Him up pretty good too so he’d stop being such a nerf. One can only hope so anyway. ‘Cause Gawd help them all if he rubs off on Her instead. o.O;
I’m curious what Kara is going to say about having Nikki work there….should be interesting!!!
There has been a bit of thought put into that.
I think after LeChamp, Kara is pretty immune to issues like Nikki.
If not immune, than maybe more circumspect, given LeChamp’s reaction to being called a “bimbo T.V. doctor”:
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-quittin-time/
If Kara made similarly disparaging remarks about Nikki… she’d better not, at least not where Nikki could hear them. Kara is no weakling, but Nikki looks like someone you’d best not trifle with.
now now nickie and lowel we will settle it by a paint ball battle the winner gets the job the loser aka lowel has to hang out with paste for a week.
Suppose she already has somewhere to live, just needs something to pay the rent, and Lowell doesn’t figure in it at all?
Not being familiar with American retail practices, what is Nikki saying about tipping her for setting up bikes?
*RMPH* That’s how I feel when I think of the blind, knee-jerk faith placed in mere documents. It’s not just Lowell being Lowell here; the attitude is depressingly widespread. What’s even more exasperating is that many will dismiss marriage as ‘just a piece of paper’ — yet I’ll wager that among them are the same people who take myriad sheepskins like MBAs with the utmost earnestness. An MBA, too, is ‘just a piece of paper,’ right? But no, it’s SO much more than that: it’s ironclad ‘proof’ of a person’s competence, full stop. That he may be demonstrably incompetent is beside the point. What matters is that he has the pieces of paper that SAYS he is qualified, therefore he is, even if he isn’t, and therefore he deserves the job. The non-papered applicant who CAN do the job, and do it well? Not even in the running; she doesn’t have that all-important, mystical document, so she never stood a chance.
NOT saying that this is how Hubris would think; much more likely the opposite. What I am saying is that this is how a lot of people WOULD think.