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Move along

by David M Willis on March 22, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great
└ Tags: joe, sal

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  1. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    March 22, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Faz shall have the last word

    • MM
      MM
      March 22, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Assuming Faz hasn’t already taken the opportunity to bolt.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        March 22, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

        That was my thought, too.

        • Dean
          Dean
          March 22, 2018 at 3:44 am | #

          Like Joe, Faz is a mere iron filing in the grip of Sal’s sexual magnetism.

      • Oberon
        Oberon
        March 22, 2018 at 2:19 pm | #

        What do you mean? Do you see him? I don’t. Didn’t even make the tags. He is already gone.

        • Raen
          Raen
          March 22, 2018 at 9:11 pm | #

          Faz is Lord English?

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      March 22, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

      Now we just need someone with the right gravy.

  2. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    March 22, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    “This isn’t the shirt you’re looking for. Move along.”

  3. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 22, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Cold sweat really deserved there.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      March 22, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      And it naturally makes a Question Mark.

    • Bladeglory
      Bladeglory
      March 22, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      What’s not stated is that Joe’s in said cold sweat because Joe is stifling the comment that he’s incredibly turned on by Sal’s “angry energy”.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        March 22, 2018 at 2:47 am | #

        Nahh, she’s having a smoke right now, and that’s not his thing: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/chubby/

      • Dark
        Dark
        March 22, 2018 at 4:57 pm | #

        Oh wow, that’s right. Joe was once clean shaven.

        Yeah, he looks better with the scruff.

  4. Shiro
    Shiro
    March 22, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Well one of us is going to have to change

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 22, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Seems to me you don’t wanna talk about it
    Seems to me, you just turn your pretty head and Walk Away
    …

    • Durandal_1707
      Durandal_1707
      March 22, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      Cool guys don’t look at explosions…

  6. Lux
    Lux
    March 22, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m not sure what I was expecting from this one, but it wasn’t this. I find it interesting that Joe’s finally starting to show remorse for the list. I still think it’s too little, too late, but he’s at least learning.

    • Dave M
      Dave M
      March 22, 2018 at 1:26 am | #

      “Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” – George Burns.

    • Josh Spicer
      Josh Spicer
      March 22, 2018 at 8:33 am | #

      Too little too late to apologize (good song BTW) or too little too late to change?

      Cause the first part of changing is to admit you were wrong and the second part is to apologize.

  7. Purblebirb
    Purblebirb
    March 22, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Two for two on goofy character reaction faces this week

  8. Durandal_1707
    Durandal_1707
    March 22, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    They’re not wearing the same shirt! Sal’s has a blue collar, and Joe’s collar is… red? Wait, or is that green? Red? Green? (pulls out Digital Color Meter) Okay, red. Point is it’s not blue. Damn colorblindness!

  9. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 22, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Quit while you’re intact, Joe. Besides, Faz doesn’t need the extra room to escape.

  10. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 22, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Welp, that’s a ‘fuck off’ if I’ve ever heard one.

    Also, my concern bells are going off about Sal’s panel 4 line.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 22, 2018 at 12:43 am | #

      Could be talking about Jason.

      ….. or, like, five random people a day.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 22, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

        Could be both.

    • Axel
      Axel
      March 22, 2018 at 12:56 am | #

      It could be foreshadowing (or Jason, or everyone), but I kind of took it to mean in punishment catholic school, and moreso with correction officer types.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 22, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

        I also took it to mean something that’s happened during her high school time. Hence my concern bells.

        • Axel
          Axel
          March 22, 2018 at 6:09 am | #

          I am glad we read it the same way (esp because I thought I might be reaching, even though it was my first instinct), I just didn’t catch that was what you meant.

          Catholic school and judicial stuff are both pretty bad culprits.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            March 22, 2018 at 2:13 pm | #

            There are a lot of hints Sal has some sort of particular badness standing out from her time in school (other than her parents being emotionally abusive shitheads and the juvie-like school in the first place). Some of them are circumstantial, but when you put them together it makes my concern bells go off big time.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              March 22, 2018 at 2:28 pm | #

              The most direct hints seem to be towards hazing from the other girls though – waking up prepared to choke, for example.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                March 22, 2018 at 4:26 pm | #

                There’s a few hints at relationship badness too, but yeah, I’d not be shocked if there was a fair bit of hazing too.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 22, 2018 at 6:55 am | #

          I’m sure it did. Whether there’s something specifically horrible or “just” the general background radiation is still the question.

    • Carms
      Carms
      March 22, 2018 at 2:36 am | #

      Hm. I mean. Out of everyone I know, I’m the one who has experienced the LEAST creepy male attention. And I still know Sal’s p4 is true about me. It’s pretty standard procedure for women- some moreso than others, and in many different flavours.

      Sal’s a standardly attractive woman of colour,and she exists in a world modelled closely on this one. Objectification is a given

    • Jago
      Jago
      March 22, 2018 at 7:08 am | #

      I’m guessing she means not being seen as a person by various people, but as her criminal record and her mistakes in general. She was a very angry teenager, acting up a lot and spiraling out of control. She is not from a problem-background, at least not a criminal one, her family is probably upper middleclass and has different problems. She is very different now. Her only friend is Marcie, so she likely didn’t make many in boarding school. She puts up a cool and distant front because she doesn’t want to get hurt, or even disappointed. But she still doesn’t like how much people judge her without actually knowing her.
      She gets along with Danny, who is just nice and pretty oblivious, so he wasn’t really intimidated by her. And maybe because she needed a friend, because Marcie is still angry and they’re not talking. So, yeah.

      tl;dr: I think this is about her past, and people, and/or the legal system only seeing her mistakes in her, disregarding her as a person with feelings and motives.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        March 22, 2018 at 10:18 am | #

        Certainly possible that it’s that too, though I suspect in this case, she’s thinking more about the sexual side of it – Jason and whatever previous experiences she’s had.

    • Pyrpyr
      Pyrpyr
      March 22, 2018 at 9:22 am | #

      It could also include objectification for non-erotic reasons, as exemplified by Jago mentioning being seen as a criminal record and not a person. Another example would be what just happened in Sal’s perspective – Malaya seeing her as a bastion of fakeness, without taking anything else into account.

  11. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    March 22, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Ringer shirts 4 eva

  12. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    March 22, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    At least he’s not getting hit by a truck. 😛

  13. StClair
    StClair
    March 22, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    panel 7: “but… I can’t…”

  14. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    March 22, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    The new season of Red vs. Blue looks great.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 22, 2018 at 9:22 am | #

      I was just thinking this…

  15. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    March 22, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Okay, but what sort of Yu-Gi-Oh! deck would Joe use?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 22, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

      Probably a harpy’s lady deck or Amazon deck. Just any deck with the monsters mostly women. If he’s going to be participating in a nerd activity, he’s at least going to have some eye candy.

  16. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 22, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Well, not the same shirt exactly. I’m pretty sure Sal’s shirt would not fit on Joe.

  17. valis_kr3
    valis_kr3
    March 22, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    He’s learning… through treats and acts of violence but he’s learning.

  18. Antonio
    Antonio
    March 22, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

    I would have been run over by a motorcycle. I have hard time not having the last word even when I’m trying not to.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      March 22, 2018 at 12:58 am | #

      Does nervously reaffirming that yes, I’m going, I’m going right away, count as the last word?

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      March 22, 2018 at 7:18 am | #

      Fushta!

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        March 22, 2018 at 8:19 pm | #

        +1 for Mel Brooks joke.

  19. Stellar
    Stellar
    March 22, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

    “OK, OK, I’m going…ooop”

  20. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    March 22, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

    “This, Amber, was it? We have never met, and I have no knowledge of her. Do you understand?”

    “You have classes with her. And, there was that time with the chairs…”

    “I SAID I have NO KNOWLEDGE of her. Do YOU understand?!”

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 22, 2018 at 12:42 am | #

      What class does she share with Amber? I’m not even sure we’ve seen any of their classes except one for each (Sal math, Amber computers), let alone share a class with each other.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 22, 2018 at 12:43 am | #

        She doesn’t, as far as we know.

        • jeffepp
          jeffepp
          March 22, 2018 at 3:46 pm | #

          You guys didn’t watch enough spy/mob movies growing up.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      March 22, 2018 at 1:58 am | #

      This is the downside of making up nicknames for everyone.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 22, 2018 at 2:02 am | #

        I don’t think she’s ever learned Amber’s proper name anyways.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          March 22, 2018 at 2:05 am | #

          I just did a quick archive dive and no, Sal’s never learned Amber’s name.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          March 22, 2018 at 4:28 am | #

          My assumption was that calling her “Laundry girl” is part of why she didn’t bother asking.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            March 22, 2018 at 9:24 am | #

            Then again, Sal makes up names for people, even people whose names she knows. ‘Wonderbread’, for example.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            March 22, 2018 at 2:10 pm | #

            I just figured she called her that because that’s where she knew her from, though you are right she never asked.

  21. Some1
    Some1
    March 22, 2018 at 12:55 am | #

    I honestly wonder if Faz has an undiagnosed mental disorder. Looking into it, I found Verbal Dsydecorum. Which is in lay-mans terms, the inability to censor yourself.

    However, it is pretty rare, and Willis would have had to heard about it for it to actually be what Faz has.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 22, 2018 at 1:36 am | #

      I’ve being wondering the same. He’s well beyond privileged/sheltered adolescent obliviousness.

    • Lena
      Lena
      March 22, 2018 at 5:37 am | #

      Nah, he’s just an awful person.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 22, 2018 at 7:10 am | #

      Unlikely, I think.
      Remember that Faz was created for Shortpacked!, with much the same behaviors and no real exploration of the reason for them.
      Mind you, it’s possible something like that could be used here, but it would almost certainly be a retrofit.

      • Dark
        Dark
        March 22, 2018 at 8:11 pm | #

        It also wouldn’t be the first retrofit to a character.

  22. Big D
    Big D
    March 22, 2018 at 1:08 am | #

    I…I can’t tell if Willace doesn’t know how people actually smoke cigarettes, or if this is some kind of meta-commentary on how Sal is trying so desperately to look cool by smoking even though she doesn’t know what she’s doing…

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 22, 2018 at 1:29 am | #

      She’s been smoking since she was at least 13, so I’d say it’s probably the angle.

      • Big D
        Big D
        March 22, 2018 at 2:08 am | #

        I dunno. As someone who used to smoke quite a lot, it just looks so unnatural. In all three panels, it’s like she’s just got her lips puckered, which is how you might take a drag, but not how you’d just hold it. I mean, how is she even talking like that?

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          March 22, 2018 at 2:28 am | #

          Okay, so I am not a smoker, but a google image search (which I’m fairly sure Willis uses for references) shows a lot of people holding their cigarettes like that. Maybe it’s a personal thing?

    • Norah
      Norah
      March 22, 2018 at 9:25 am | #

      Also I don’t think Sal is desperate to look cool. No one who’s desperate to lol cool is able to achieve it as well as her. I don’t think any of the “cool” things she does are for effect. I think she does what she wants.

      • TerribleName
        TerribleName
        March 22, 2018 at 3:15 pm | #

        Sal rides a motorcycle, wears fingerless gloves, has an exaggerated accent and is an edgy teen smoker. She’s as insecure as Joe.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 22, 2018 at 3:55 pm | #

          That’s Malaya’s theory. Though I’ve got no idea what you mean by “edgy”.

          She’s definitely got issues. Not sure they have anything to do with being desperate to look cool.

          • TerribleName
            TerribleName
            March 22, 2018 at 6:28 pm | #

            Teen smoking is a desperate attempt to look cool.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              March 22, 2018 at 6:31 pm | #

              A) The earliest we see her smoking is the robbery, so I’m guessing it started as a stress thing.

              B) Not all her gloves are fingerless, but so what if they were? She’s got what’s probably a nasty scar on one of her hands.

              C) There’s never been an indication Sal’s accent is exaggerated other than Malaya saying it was. Since we’ve seen Sal keep her accent while angry (which is what Malaya said was when she slipped) and Malaya admitted 5 seconds later she was (partially) giving her a hard time because Marcie’s mad at her, I’d take that with a grain of salt.

              D) …Seriously? Motorcycle = fake now?

              • Zach
                Zach
                March 22, 2018 at 7:03 pm | #

                We know she distances herself as a defensive thing, is the cool act really such a stretch?

                But it isn’t that she’s just full of herself, it’s largely that she wants to be left alone while also wanting attention. And feeling like you’re hot feels great. We KNOW it’s a persona, because only Dina doesn’t have one. This comic seems written with mask theory in mind at all times.

                We all front.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  March 22, 2018 at 7:59 pm | #

                  Honestly? Yes. Because while mask theory is definitely a theme in this story, none of those masks encompass everything about the character. Becky is legitimately cheerful and goofy and plays that up when she’s masking. That doesn’t make her not cheerful and goofy. This whole ‘Sal’s only pretending to be cool’ thing only works if everything about her except music (which is new) is not true and frankly I don’t buy that. It also doesn’t work because unlike Billie, she really doesn’t seem to care when she’s alone and nobody pays attention to her. If what Malaya said was 100% true, she’d be a lot more annoyed when she was alone than she is. She’s upset Marcie specifically isn’t paying attention to her anymore, but Marcie seems to be an exception to most of Sal’s thoughts about people in general because she’s her best friend. And her parents, yes, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be mad at your parents for 18 years of emotional abuse and neglect, no.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              March 22, 2018 at 6:58 pm | #

              Or it was a desperate attempt to look cool at 13 when she started and now it’s an addiction.
              Cause smoking is addictive, you know.

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 22, 2018 at 1:22 am | #

    Kinda think Sal wants to tell Joe something…

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      March 22, 2018 at 9:18 am | #

      I got the opposite impression. Sal isn’t going to make an issue of any of this but he needs to get away and not come back.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        March 22, 2018 at 2:08 pm | #

        You are right. I was just being oblivious to Sal’s repeated “move along” for (marginally) comic effect.

  24. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    March 22, 2018 at 1:23 am | #

    Huh, I was wondering about those shirts yesterday.

    And Joe’s apology tour is hitting a snag.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      March 22, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

      He was doing so well, too. Just a straightforward apology, no excuses or anything. He just had to keep talking though

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        March 22, 2018 at 1:41 am | #

        In general, if Joe could just shut up in the last panel of each strip he would come across as MUCH better. He shares that trait with his dad.

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          March 22, 2018 at 2:38 am | #

          Point proven by the fact that Joe shut up in the last panel of this strip, and he immediately came across better.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            March 22, 2018 at 5:03 am | #

            Very true

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 22, 2018 at 6:16 am | #

      In some ways, I think that Joe is rather poor in communication. That’s why, away from his relatively narrow comfort zone, he starts to babble incoherently.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        March 22, 2018 at 6:24 am | #

        I kinda think you are right
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/fertile/

        • Hielario
          Hielario
          March 22, 2018 at 7:09 am | #

          Yeah, that’s what happens when communication is just a tool to get what you want.

  25. Ghostforge
    Ghostforge
    March 22, 2018 at 1:44 am | #

    when all you gotta keep is strong, move along move along like I know you do;
    and even when your hope is gone, move along move along just to make it through.

  26. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 22, 2018 at 2:59 am | #

    SAL: “Joe, I really want to end this conversation without being rude, but you’re making this impossible for me.”

  27. Ainara
    Ainara
    March 22, 2018 at 4:24 am | #

    Woman of simple pleasures, this Sal

  28. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 22, 2018 at 5:51 am | #

    Aaah, the last word thing.

  29. Liliet
    Liliet
    March 22, 2018 at 6:06 am | #

    bless <3

  30. Jago
    Jago
    March 22, 2018 at 7:12 am | #

    Something I really, really like about this comic is how real the characters feel. And by that I mean how well they are written. I’m not sure if I’d meet these characters in real life (but then again, American society is different to mine and I have never been to a college campus, so I don’t know about you guys’ hijinks), but they are (well, most of them) layered, have different character traits, reasons for their behaviour and feelings. And it’s interesting and fun to see them develop over time.

    • Jay
      Jay
      March 22, 2018 at 3:49 pm | #

      I find it really helps that the comic literally updates throughout a day in their lives in college and usually doesn’t have huge timeskips, we literally see them solve their issues day to day and deal with them. Something I think a LOT of people forget about especially when they’re judging character on their flaws. I noticed it most during the List leak arc when people were bongoing about Joe for not instantly changing when it had only been like an hour.

  31. Shadow Eagle
    Shadow Eagle
    March 22, 2018 at 7:19 am | #

    Some people just cant take a hint….. run him down for good measure!!!!

  32. Clif
    Clif
    March 22, 2018 at 8:39 am | #

    A pleasant exchange. Meanwhile Faz is long gone.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      March 22, 2018 at 8:53 am | #

      To be fair, that’s exactly what make the exchange plesant

  33. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    March 22, 2018 at 9:19 am | #

    I think Sal is referring to Jason as well as a more indirect “my entire life as a adult woman.”

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 22, 2018 at 9:23 am | #

      I get the impression that the misadventure/fiasco with Jason was more a case that Sal decided to play the role she’s been playing for a while that feeds into her cynical view of life and the world and that Jason was too stupid to tell her to snap out of it.

      • chris73
        chris73
        March 22, 2018 at 2:35 pm | #

        While Jason should be attributed some blame theres some extenuating circumstances and thats an attractive young women opening her top and straddling him and it can’t have been that bad since she went back for seconds

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 22, 2018 at 4:02 pm | #

          OTOH, he’s her TA and that’s a huge moral no-no as well as a firing offense, regardless of who’s coming on to who.

          I’ll agree the situation is set up to be about as extenuating as casual angry sex under such circumstances can be, which is still not very.

          • Puckish Rogue
            Puckish Rogue
            March 22, 2018 at 5:13 pm | #

            Jason shouldn’t have gone there sure but I’m assuming Jason is in mid to late 20s and is single and so when Sal says lets go I can’t really blame him all that much for his actions

      • nightshade
        nightshade
        March 22, 2018 at 7:45 pm | #

        like ive said before sal seems like shes used to using her body to get what she needs to get through a situation like in a jail situation …….

  34. hof1991
    hof1991
    March 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm | #

    Good test for Joe. She tells him to move along, then tells him again, then tells him again. Can he just move along? Time for a distraction to save him.

  35. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    March 22, 2018 at 1:05 pm | #

    Run Joe run!

  36. Trolldrool
    Trolldrool
    March 22, 2018 at 1:22 pm | #

    I like the body language in this one. Joe looking down towards the ground as he apologizes does seem to imply his remorse is genuine and starting to see that it was wrong to make the list in general, even if he hadn’t (somehow) gotten caught.

  37. dethtolldotmid
    dethtolldotmid
    March 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm | #

    Boy, do I relate to that last panel.

  38. aureus
    aureus
    March 22, 2018 at 5:57 pm | #

    If Amber and Joe’s parents get hitched, would that make Faz Joe’s stepstepbrother?

  39. Meta
    Meta
    March 22, 2018 at 6:41 pm | #

    Come to think of it, Joyce might be the only character who’s not at least a little bit scared of Sal

  40. Storel
    Storel
    March 22, 2018 at 6:44 pm | #

    Joe finds it difficult to let someone else have the last word, doesn’t he?

  41. Phil Dog
    Phil Dog
    March 22, 2018 at 7:33 pm | #

    No true motorcyclist would ever run someone over with their bike. It might hurt our bike.

  42. Toes14
    Toes14
    March 22, 2018 at 7:36 pm | #

    I forget, what was Sal’s rating on Joe’s List?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 22, 2018 at 9:20 pm | #

      9, would be 10 if she wasn’t a smoker (which really just means if any creepers who subscribed to the list don’t mind smoking, they very well might become extremely annoying).

  43. Puckish Rogue
    Puckish Rogue
    March 22, 2018 at 7:46 pm | #

    As does Sal it seems

    • Puckish Rogue
      Puckish Rogue
      March 22, 2018 at 7:55 pm | #

      Dagnabbit, that was supposed to be a reply to Storel

  44. nlips
    nlips
    March 23, 2018 at 2:49 am | #

    I found out that my wife always gets the last word. She doesn’t even realize she’s doing it. She completes a conversation with an “end” statement after the last person speaks, almost like a programmer closing a loop. Even if it’s just something like “ok, good!” or “got it” or “good night” or “I love you.”

    One of the biggest fights we got into was after I realized this, and wanted to see what happens when I spoke last instead of her. I tried to use closing statements to end the conversation, and she would respond again. She got confused that the conversation wasn’t ending, and eventually angry. When I explained the experiment she denied she does any such thing.

    To this day I don’t think she realizes she does it. But it’s subtle things like this that indicate a dominant personality — you’re not talking to her, she’s talking to YOU. The conversation starts and stops when she wants it to. I think that’s what is so hard for Joe here. He’s used to being in the dominant, in-control position. He talks to girls. He chooses when to engage or disengage. The girl doesn’t have a say. She’s forcing him to accept that he isn’t ending this conversation on his terms – she’s ending it on hers.

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      March 24, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      my dad and I do a similar thing out of conflict-avoidance or something. it can take several minutes to end a phone call because we both keep saying variants of “goodbye” but expecting the other person to actually hang up. 🙂

  45. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    March 26, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

    small eyes indicate the exact opposite of desire/interest
    terror strikes on the steps
    joe’s comfort zone has gone thataway, follow it, joe!

    –Dave, gowan, geddouddahere

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