Posts Tagged Shelly
When adults are behaving like children, we occasionally tell them they’re acting like children. This rarely has the desired result of making the adult examine his or her behavior and correcting it, but typically makes them double down on the shouting rants that made us think the problem needed to be called to their attention in the first place.
Adults, anyhow, are capable of some pretty machiavellian bad stuff even when they’re behaving like adults.
And, as in today’s cartoon, it all begs the question “Behaving like an adult WHAT?”
Behaving like an adult human, I hope, is better than behaving like an adult jackass.
I think Big Ron is asking for trouble.
Not physical trouble, like Mal might pick an actual fight.
I think he might start dating Shelly. That might be trouble. They’re just too similar… relationships like that are volatile. Y’know. “Trouble”
I bet you thought I misspelled ‘unrequited’ love in the title didn’t ya?
But no. I just don’t see this obsession Big Ron has with Shelly as absolutely necessary.
Do you?
You don’t wanna go bog down your process, now do ya?
Your team has stuff to get done, and your team is being hunted down for individual beatings. Best to streamline that workflow.
In the original version of this, it was a little different, and Ron was fighting back. It was a sort of rodeo gag.
This is better.
It’s like State Troopers crossing state lines during high-speed car chases-
When you’re looking to crack skulls over your boyfriend’s mistreatment, it’s okay to follow a guy right up into the sky.
Shelly’s one of those girlfriends who doesn’t mind getting fired up over her guy.
I think.
Maybe she’s one of those girlfriends who’s been putting up with crap for long enough and has decided to take out her frustrations on anyone within reach.
Ever know anyone like that?
Remember when you were a school kid? And there was that one squidgey kid whose big sister would protect him from the rotten kids? And then you realized one day that she wasn’t treating her little brother any better than the bullies, it’s just that she’s family and the kid was used to it from her anyhow. Heck, it was probably her that taught him to eat bugs if you offered him pocket change.
There was a point to that story, but I’ve forgotten what it was.





















