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Why couldn't I have met you a year ago?

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You probably wouldn't have liked me, I was way whinier back then.

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Meaningful silence...

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Cookie time is cancelled.

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We were short an egg, so Marigold went to the store...

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Pizzatz Haderach, the tiny, judgy cashier!

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YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUBDIVIDE

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Marten calls Padma...

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Padma delays seeing him...

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FOREBODE FOREBODE

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What? No! Stop that! Go away!

2 (3.1%)

Thinking of Padma... (DAT A$$)

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Walking, working, guitar, disarming a bomb...

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O-oh, okay. No, it's cool, I'll see you, uh, some other time, then.

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Nuklear explosion.

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Face down on the couch.

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She cancelled.

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I'm worried I did something wrong, or... something.

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Maybe she just has... (Thanks, Faye)

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I'm serious. I accidentally drank some spoiled milk (THANKS FAYE.)

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Total Members Voted: 60

[dragontart]

In Germany, eggs are commonly sold in packages of 10 or 6, sometimes 4. Google images overview.
You can buy single eggs (or as much as you want) on weekly fresh food markets in most towns and some bigger cities (or directly from producers in rural areas).

[snubnose]

Are eggs sold loose anywhere in the USA?

Yes, but they are hard boiled.

Oh, hard boiled eggs are sold in single items here in germany, too. They are only available around easter, though, and already colored, too.

In Germany, eggs are commonly sold in packages of 10 or 6, sometimes 4. Google images overview.
You can buy single eggs (or as much as you want) on weekly fresh food markets in most towns and some bigger cities (or directly from producers in rural areas).

Really ? I never noticed that.

[Mr. Doctor]

That female stereotype definitely works for my mom. She just can't buy one thing from the supermarket.

[dragontart]

Really ? I never noticed that.

Aye, they usually offer different empty egg cartons to put them in. Might depend on the area you live in, me and friends can tell for northern and western areas.

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Supermarkets, at least in North America, are laid out to try to make you want to buy more stuff.  Just look at the areas around the checkouts, which are filled with magazines, candy, soft drinks and other things you might purchase on impulse.. 

[jwhouk]

Some larger chain grocery stores sell eggs by the half-dozen and dozen-and-a-half, as well as the usual dozen - but never less than six.

To me, Hanners is giving that "You're $#!++!\' me!" look at Momo. Classic.

[Border Reiver]

What kind of monster cancels "Cookie time" for just a little embarassment? 

These are cookies we're talking about people!

[lepetitfromage]

I know, right??? At the very least, she could have called Hanners to let her know of the predicament and Hanners could have either bought eggs or even a package of cookies. 

[Yarin]

I like my eggs straight from the hen

[ink slinger]

You'd think in this day and age you'd be able to buy eggs singly.  A lot of people probably won't go through even a half dozen eggs before they go bad.

It generally takes an incredibly long time for eggs to go bad. I am single. I buy eggs by the dozen. I don't eat eggs every day or even every week. I have never had a carton go bad.

You can buy eggs by the half-dozen now, though, at least in Canada.

[Near Lurker]

Either way, that is a really androgynous cashier.  (I'm pretty sure we've seen at least one man with lips like that... I have it in my head he was a goth...)

[AnAverageWriter]

Yay Marigold! Always great to see a "funny" strip to cut through the drama and angst.

That female stereotype definitely works for my mom. She just can't buy one thing form the supermarket.

I can rarely go into a supermarket without buying an extra something or other, and I'm not female. They MANIPULATE YOUR MIND, man. They get in your head.

[Sidhekin]

In Norway, I have bought eggs in packages of 6 (2 by 3), 9 (3 by 3), and 12 (2 by 6).

I've seen the shops sell them in packages of 18 (3 by 6), 20 (4 by 5), and 30 (5 by 6), but I have never needed that many ...

I've heard of packages of 10, but I have never seen them.

And the only place where you might be able to buy a single egg, is from the farmer.  A supermarket would be the last place I'd look.  But hey, if our dear Farmer has other ideas ...

[Carl-E]

Why aren't dozens sold n a 3x4 package?  It's be more efficient and stable. 

...because it would be harder to cut in half than the 2x6 packages.  I've even seen them with dotted lines in the middle, and most are more thinly constructed in the center so they can be broken torn in half by the shopper who only wants 6. 

[Mr. Doctor]

Supermarkets, at least in North America, are laid out to try to make you want to buy more stuff.  Just look at the areas around the checkouts, which are filled with magazines, candy, soft drinks and other things you might purchase on impulse..  

Many supermarkets are like that, I dare say most of them. It's really smart to put some of the most basic stuff like milk and eggs as far away as possible so people are forced to go through a large amount of products they didn't even think of buying at all.

That female stereotype definitely works for my mom. She just can't buy one thing form the supermarket.

I can rarely go into a supermarket without buying an extra something or other, and I'm not female. They MANIPULATE YOUR MIND, man. They get in your head.

Towards other people I'm very generous, I like to give.... But I'm not really generous with myself so when I go to buy something... I just go and buy that something because I don't like spending money on something I didn't think of spending on.

THEY CAN'T CONTROL ME

[Near Lurker]

The trick is to open onto the produce section.  To most people, fresh produce looks much more appealing than in their heads, so they put it out so you'll see it first when you're there for something else.  They then put their top small-purchase sellers (baking staples and snack food, IIRC) either at the back-left or in the center aisles, where people will go through the most merchandise to find them.

[Kugai]

Here I can buy Eggs by the Tray (2.5 Dozen), Extra Box (1.5 Dozen, basically a dozen Eggs with half a dozen thrown in for free), a standard dozen carton and a half dozen carton.  There is also a carton of extra large (size 8 Eggs), but that only contains 10 Eggs.

We also have a choice of Battery, Caged or Free Range as well as Grain Fed.

[Overkillengine]

I live in a rural area in the US, and if you know the right people you can get eggs in whatever quantity you want.

[LTK]

That female stereotype definitely works for my mom. She just can't buy one thing form the supermarket.

I can rarely go into a supermarket without buying an extra something or other, and I'm not female. They MANIPULATE YOUR MIND, man. They get in your head.

Towards other people I'm very generous, I like to give.... But I'm not really generous with myself so when I go to buy something... I just go and buy that something because I don't like spending money on something I didn't think of spending on.

THEY CAN'T CONTROL ME

Amen to that! When you understand that every aspect of the supermarket as a concept - including the placement of the products on the shop floor as well as the shelf height, the advertisements, discounts, two-for-one deals, muzak, and probably more that I don't even know of - has the sole purpose of getting you to spend more money than you were initially planning to, you're much less likely to buy things you don't need.

(Also, the most common sizes for boxes of eggs here are 2x3 and 2x5. Bulk sized cartons are 5x5. I keep a 2x5 box and then refill it with a 2x3 box once I'm down to 1 or 2 eggs.)

[no one special]

What kind of monster cancels "Cookie time"  

[Interlude]

All I'm reminded of is the hotdog bun scene from Father of the Bride.

YES! That's the first thing I thought of, too! Love that movie.

[iduguphergrave]

If anyone is interested, I am the tiny judgy cashier in the latest QC. tinyurl.com/6mzhdxc (thaaaanks @jephjacques)

(also I'm giggling at "tiny judgy cashier")

(also dat ponytail)

[DSL]

I thought that was a ponytail on the cashier ... finally figured out it was a person shopping in the background.
Or were you talking about Marigold's ponytail, IDUHG?

[iduguphergrave]

Yeah I meant Marigold's. She's so darn cute in the last panel :3

[Sorflakne]

I live in a rural area in the US, and if you know the right people you can get eggs in whatever quantity you want.

And if you keep your own chickens, you know they're fresh (and free!).

Either way, that is a really androgynous cashier.  (I'm pretty sure we've seen at least one man with lips like that... I have it in my head he was a goth...)

Eh, never crossed my mind for a second that it was a guy.  Some women are just small A-cup even as adults. 

And as someone said earlier, the females in QC have full lips, so that was a giveaway too  (don't remember the goth guy though...)

registered just to say that this is pure fiction:

a girl can not get into a store for one item and just buy that one item. There will always be something else on sale or something they really really really needed.

You obviously haven't been reading the comic long if you believe that Mari (or any girl in the strip, really, from what we've seen thus far) falls into the 'stereotypical girl' category.

[cesariojpn]

registered just to say that this is pure fiction:

a girl can not get into a store for one item and just buy that one item. There will always be something else on sale or something they really really really needed.

You obviously haven't been reading the comic long if you believe that Mari (or any girl in the strip, really, from what we've seen thus far) falls into the 'stereotypical girl' category.

Faye only bought one item from that sex shop......

[LordVaughn]

Well, looks like tonight's comic is going under "Medium Awareness" on the QC TVTropes page.

[Near Lurker]

God DAMN that boy's skinny.

...siiigh... damn my teenage lust for bacon.

[DSL]

HEY! Quit pounding on the fourth wall! We can't hear ourselves forum-ulate!

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Eh, never crossed my mind for a second that it was a guy.  Some women are just small A-cup even as adults. 

A good example would be the Chinese actress Vivian Wu.  Given how much acting she's done in Western films and TV I'm surprised she was never convinced to get breast implants by some slick talking agent.

[Yarin]

So apparently marten is aware of the 4th wall or has a serious case of synesthesia

[Kugai]

[SlightlyObscureCulturalReference]

"We're doomed!  We're doomed!! "

"Shut up Fraser!"

[/SlightlyObscureCulturalReference]

[haikupoet]

[SlightlyObscureCulturalReference]

"We're doomed!  We're doomed!! "

"Shut up Fraser!"

[/SlightlyObscureCulturalReference]

And yet she probably is blowing him off...

[CompSarge]

This is all I could think of when I saw the final two panels...

[haikupoet]

Well, looks like tonight's comic is going under "Medium Awareness" on the QC TVTropes page.

Considering QC is loosely connected to the Walkyverse along with Something Positive, Girls with Slingshots, Penny and Aggie, Diesel Sweeties, and who knows how many other webcomics -- in other words, the webcomic world's equivalent of the Westphall universe -- medium awareness surprises you?

[Carl-E]

Come on, it's just a vague sense of foreboding - we've all had that before! 

[Wagimawr]

Man, Marten's so bad off even the 4th wall is coming crashing down around him.

  (that was better before I typed it.)

[Hebes]

Perhaps some early-onset Happy Relationship Paranoia for Marten?

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Padma got that bitch a foreboding absence.

Bitches love foreboding absences.

I also love how Jeph's happy travel newspost contrasts with incoming sadbombs.

[iduguphergrave]

I love how Marten's the bitch in that scenario. Appropriate, really. He's already being a teenage girl here, flopping onto the couch backwards with the phone

[Carl-E]

I just had a different sense of foreboding. 


Padma's tired?  I wonder if she's avoiding Marten, or if she really is  tired.   








And maybe a little nauseous, too?   

[themacnut]

Nah, she's just avoiding Marten. Hope Marten enjoyed his last bedroom romp with Padma, 'cause it really was his last romp with her.

No more nooky for Marten!

[sluthy]

And maybe a little nauseous, too?   

...no. No.

And Jeph's already said he won't do a pregnancy storyline, he hates them.

I probably won't see Jeph on his travels (depends where in Aus he goes) but it'd be really funny if he's here when I'm in NZ next month and in NZ when I'm back here.

[WAYF]

This kind of reminds me of Glooooooom.

And I wonder if the Forebodings mean anything, or whether this was just for one-time comic effect?

Ok, now I've stopped wondering, and I definitely think that they mean something.

Especially if Marten has to start double and triple-checking the arrangements.

[Nightson]

Generally, when someone has an actual excuse and really does want to see the person, they'll offer a replacement time, like Padma did in the comic. 

Though I do expect Marten to mope and bring it up with his friends who inform him that being female, "I'm tired" is code for "I'm on my period"

[AnAverageWriter]

being female, "I'm tired" is code for "I'm on my period"

Or code for...

"I'm tired".

Gender stereotypes, whee!

[ilikefishfood]

Generally, when someone has an actual excuse and really does want to see the person, they'll offer a replacement time, like Padma did in the comic.  

You're right, she did offer an alternative, and that's a good thing....but 'Friday' sounds so far away.  It's not like she said 'tomorrow.'  If you're really just tired tonight....you should be rested by tomorrow.  Shouldn't you?  I really need to know what day of the week today is in the QC universe to fully assess the implications of her not being available tonight!

I've been in Padma's situation before when you think the guy isn't as serious as you are and your response is to get all cool and casual so you don't get hurt.  One of two things can then happen...he panics and starts the hot pursuit...or he thinks you're not that interested either and the budding relationship fizzles.  

[themacnut]

If she throws out another excuse not to see Marten when Friday comes around, it'll be a bad sign. It'll be an even worse sign if she stops taking his calls.

At that point he'll be expected to take the hint and stop "bothering" her...

[Welu]

She could be working until Friday? We're not sure what day this is in QC, right? It could be Wednesday so Friday isn't that far away. Or it could be Monday and seem very far away.

Maybe we should hope Marten's foreboding feelings won't make him go to tSB and cause a mini-scene. Discussing love-life problems at work isn't fun for any one, especially for people not involved in the discussion but in hearing range of it. _{Damn, I hate my coworkers sometimes.}

[TinPenguin]

And yet she probably is blowing him off...

Why would that be a problem?