Remember when you were a kid, and you didn’t have any idea how the genders were supposed to get along outside of whatever random instinctive behaviors bubbled up in your partially formed brain, and for what you’d seen in mass entertainment where the primary theme of any visual medium was ‘Sex Sells’?
Yeah, me neither.
I have a feeling that Kara has figured out they have to duct tape and abduct Paste to the luggage rack…
May want to look up those age-related laws about one person being on the right side of 18, and the other being jail-bait…
yeah they REALLY don’t fall into the “romeo and juliette” close as they were NEVER EVER dating before Niki went past the adult age.
but i bet the “playa” thinks it’s even more “playa” to do that…
errr meant clause sorry hehe
If I recall Paste is 13. Nikki’s age hasn’t been stated and she very easily could be in her mid teens. Older, sure, but not freakishly older.
Well, she has her own place, so probably late teens. Either way, Paste chasing her is just reaching for the stars. Note if she were chasing him, that’d be something else.
If Hubris is giving her a job, she has to be street legal, or she needs written permission from her parents that she can give Hubris. Otherwise, child labor laws. And if she’s 18 or over, she needs to be really careful about “dating” anyone less than 18.
I’ve run into the issue a few times. If one is 18 or older the other has to be within 3 years. Three years and a day and they hang the older one up to dry.
Most places 14 up to 16 can be hired for limited duties and limited hours. 16 to 18 are mostly normal. A few jobs require 21 as a minimum.
Paste is too young for Nikki. She’s on a lease, she has to be 18 or living with proveable family.
Of all the things that generate conversation, I didn’t expect this one to light up the board. I’m very pleased, of course. And more than ever, convinced that I can’t predict what will catch your attention.
Nikki looks to be early 20’s and Paste has a “teacher” crush.
on one side Lowell the lunatic with disillusion about work life.
on the other side Paste the crazy gnome, or troll, which so not understand boundaries and love.
this sure makes for crazy times.
especially when you add Kara that, as a doctor, can’t help herself and try to give people advice.
and NOW Niki…that COULD have an agenda concerning the shop and leaving her alone to run it might not be the best one. While leaving her with Paste is completely OUT OF QUESTION.
talk about an explosive volatile cocktail i swear.
Hubris has a large stock of headache pills right? Or maybe a tranquilizer gun somewhere????
She’s pretty bright; I think Nikki can keep Paste at bay.
heh.. “DONE” with Lowell…
her wedding to maybe bob . as the ring bearer. other wise paste is going to get no where with nickie not even as friends.
Epic fail by Kara. Getting to attend a wedding is NOT a selling point……..
Oh, yeah, it took me many years to learn how to act around women. I’d be Mr. Cool in my mind, just being pleasant & mellow, then I’d meet a nice woman and be a total nervous idiot.
Guys are lucky, us gals like you sometimes anyways. 🙂 (and if I knew why I could write a book and retire….)
Waiting to see Paste’s face when he learns Nicki is gay.
I’m tempted to re-write it like that. That’d be a funny life lesson, wouldn’t it?
Lesson? What lesson? “Since we are such good friends, I can watch, right?”……..
It would fit very well with a bunch of other stuff very well. Very well indeed.
Bring in some roller derby friends, and we can play off their looks of bemusement as Paste keeps trying to pick Nikki up
I am wondering most of all who supposedly has any idea how the genders are supposed to get along outside of whatever random instinctive behaviors bubbled up in ones partially formed brain even when no longer a kid 🙂
“Of all the things that generate conversation, I didn’t expect this one to light up the board. I’m very pleased, of course. And more than ever, convinced that I can’t predict what will catch your attention.”
A couple of years ago, a newsletter to which I subscribe briefly discussed the problems caused by feral hogs in the US, such as property damage. It wasn’t presented as a big story or anything, just one news item among several that the editor routinely inserted into every issue. No matter — reader response exploded, with comments flooding in for days. If memory serves, they were still trickling in several weeks later.
A classic example of how one can’t always predict just what will spark the imaginations of readers and generate lively, interesting (and often humorous) discussions.