When you insist on crazy business, your business is crazy.
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When you insist on crazy business, your business is crazy.
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Lowell needs to open his own store.
Maybe Cthula, Dub, and Bluto are hiding at his place, he can turn them in and get a fat reward and open a store across from Sportsmart?
yeah EVEN MORE sure that lowell is not adapted into ANYONE’S store.
he has just ONE target at time in his brain and would probably overload if he tried a second one or someone passed with a laser point to make him chase.
hated this kind of person when i worked as a salesman that had ONE GOAL and missed the big picture on the side. had to keep saving their bloody sales.
on a different point.
i think she ALREADY FEELS AT HOME hehe
How old is Nikki, Sixx?
See what you did there, I do.
She apparently has a nose stud and a cheek stud, but only one visible tat. I’d guess 25 to 30.
Panels 1 and 2 make Nikki look like an Elfin-American, or petite, whatever.
Panel3: For some reason that stance reminds me of Bruce Lee.
I think Darling Nikki is going to be quite entertaining.
Lowell is a big ol’ lump of lard, though.
So, Lowell went from Darth Lowell to Jabba the Hutt? Somehow I don’t see Lowell capturing Nikki and getting her into a Princess Leia slave girl costume.
Maybe an Elvis impersonator. Older Elvis.
I’m just a hunk, a hunk of burning lard
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning lard
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning lard
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning lard
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning lard…
Heh… funny you should mention Elvis. On GoComics I had referred to Lowell as a chunka chunka burnin’ butt in that ‘romantic’ scene in the rain with Ms. Wiggins-Ross:
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-or-something/
I don’t see Nikki as someone who would be easily ‘captured’ — unless she WANTED to be. And if she did, I don’t see Lowell as the one to capture her. But what if he did… ?
I don’t think I want to see that!
I.. thought Lowell found himself.. All that learning gone??
That’s assuming that he actually LEARNED something. And I tend to doubt it, because it wasn’t as if he had put a great deal — or any — thought into it when he headed for the forest. He probably heard somewhere that spending time in the wilderness was the way to ‘find’ yourself, and in his distraught emotional state didn’t stop to consider whether this was the best (or even good) choice for him.
But even in his calmer moments, he has consistently displayed a similarly severe lack of self-awareness. Time and again he has raised people’s hackles with his words and actions — going back to his first encounter with Hubris — and he never seems to have a clue as to why they react so negatively. Nothing that anyone tells him, none of the awful consequences that he suffers — none of it seems to make more than a momentary dent, if that.
But I could be wrong; it’s possible that some good has, or will, come from his time away, even if it’s not in evidence right now. Just have to watch and see as it develops. Or doesn’t.
The recurring conflict between theory (academia) and practice (actually serving the public). Unfortunately, lousy service has become the new norm, and craftsmanship (artisanal) the butt of many jokes. Hang in there, Nikki.
Well.
That was quick.
[sighs] I guess we need to send Lowell back to the raccoons. The first rinse through was a wash.
Lowell might have “found himself” but that doesn’t mean what he found, was any use to himself or anyone else
Not being Anerican, what does Nikki mean about being tipped for setting up bikes?
It is becoming less uncommon to have Tip or Karma jars (depending on the local jargon) in various retail outlets. Bike repair, along the lines of food service, seems to be a popular one for garnering a little extra for doing a little extra. Your bike, in other words, comes back really really clean and tuned up above and beyond what’s necessary if the wrenchjockeys know you’re willing to drop a five in the plastic box. Barbers are another good service person to tip. Y’know… sharp objects near your head. That kind of thing.
Sounds very American, that having paid the agreed price for a service you pay a bit extra to actually get the job done.
I don’t know when tipping became so infra-dig in Britain. It was quite usual to tip in Victorian times – whole categories of service workers such as crossing sweepers earned their living this way, and tipping domestic staff was an arcane study in itself.
It probably disappeared with the “fair days work for a fair days pay” movement as trades unionism established itself, the police and civil service were prifessionalised and domestic service largely disappeared.
I always found, if I took my car through the carwash, and went outside to wait for it, leaning on the tip box with a five in my hand got that car ragged a little better, when they finished I’d put the five in the box and go claim my car. 🙂 Yes I’ve been a wage slave that survived on tips…
if lowel wants revenge on his old store he should just open his own and then when it too fails he can try again to get a job from hubris
Hubris is missing a step (It was a baaaad day, so I’ll cut him slack). Lowell is right, Hubris should hire both of them. Lowell is great at the scutwork Hubris hates, Nikki is great at the construction the Store is know for, and Paste is a great counter monkey. That leaves Hubris free to run the various special events and still get the free time he needs. And Lowell would work real cheap, because of his vendetta. Wins across the board. Such a Hubris moment…….
Lowell is too single track. Hiring him means having to ride herd on him constantly so he doesn’t go on the track he still has the blinders for.
I’d say if Hubris wants the best of the worlds, wait until he needs a ninja paperwork jockey and hire Lowell just as a single shot project killer.
you got a point. Robert However Lowell must not have any and I mean any authority including over Paste. And keep him away from the customers.
Hey, we’ve seen Lowell be good with customers before, and Hubris is in charge for a reason. He’s great management….
What’s so special about “paste” anyway? Is it a reference to something!
Good question. Since Carlasile, Hubie’s stepbrother, insists on being called Paste, and insists he is a ‘hoodlum’, it may refer to the ‘beat on’ definition. As in ‘I’ma gonna paste you good!’
Ok, he is an avatar for Slick from Sinfest (before it went down the toilet, anyway) – he claims to be a “pimp” but is really just an obnoxious nuisance?
The contrast between Hubris and Lowell in their respective approaches to business could not be more stark. Hubris states it clearly and concisely in panel three. But Lowell? To be fair, I don’t think that he is incompetent, whatever else you may say of him. But even if he IS up to the job, his highly questionable motivations alone would be more than enough to give Hubris pause, even if he hadn’t already been dead set against hiring Lowell well before then, and for good reason.
As much as the business may drive Hubris crazy, and leave him with less time to pursue the activities he enjoys, all the same he is dedicated to providing to providing the best service possible, and hiring staff with that in mind. Lowell sees the store as little more than a vehicle for personal revenge against Sportsmart for sacking him. While I can sympathize with his bitterness to a point, that’s not the real problem here (though it certainly isn’t helping).
The trouble is that Lowell is one of those who cannot conceive of achieving success without it being at someone else’s expense, even ‘crushing’ them if necessary. This was obvious from his first appearance, when he openly expressed his desire to put the Outdoor Galore Store out of business. That was bad enough, but then there was no personal vendetta playing a part. But now? Hubris may not think much of Sportsmart and how it operates, but so far as I can tell he harbors no grudge toward it, let alone any desire to destroy it. He only wishes to do his best on his own terms — and he’s not about to let either himself or his store be shanghaied into Lowell’s crusade.