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Gone too

by David M Willis on March 23, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - When It Crumbles
└ Tags: asher, dina, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 23, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    *types* “I saved 15% or more by switching to Geico”

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 23, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

      Actually they’ve switched their slogan to “75 years of savings and service” he’s gonna have to swap that one over.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 23, 2020 at 3:00 am | #

      “I saved more than that in half the time.”

      “I unfriend you.”

      “That’s not how it works! That’s not how any of this works!”

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        March 24, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

        It’s a little disturbing how often I find myself using that last line.

  2. FaerwenofValenwood
    FaerwenofValenwood
    March 23, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    I don’t like this. I HIGHLY DISLIKE THIS VAGUE SENSE OF UNEASE.

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      March 23, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

      for just $5 on Patreon, there is a chance things become less vague

      or maybe it’ll be like everyone who ponied up on January 7

      that’s just a chance you’ll have to take

      (but really, this storyline is gonna be fantastic and rewarding creators for stories like these is a good idea)

    • Dana
      Dana
      March 23, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      Are you talking about the comic, or the pandemic? Either way I have to agree.

      • FaerwenofValenwood
        FaerwenofValenwood
        March 23, 2020 at 12:48 am | #

        Yes.

    • PB
      PB
      March 23, 2020 at 1:55 am | #

      Couldn’t have put it better myself.

    • chris2315
      chris2315
      March 23, 2020 at 7:08 pm | #

      Yes, I much prefer my unease to be certain, quick and brutal.

  3. AntJ
    AntJ
    March 23, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    called it https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/03-when-it-crumbles/fouram/#comment-1454860

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      March 23, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      What you guys said coincides with it potentially being a phone, ha ha keycard in Asher’s hand as well

      • clif
        clif
        March 23, 2020 at 1:46 am | #

        A number of people called Asher setting off the alarm. What isn’t clear to me is what this accomplished. A batch of people left their dorm room. It’s not clear how the dastardly dad’s could count on being able to abduct someone without being seen and without a noisy struggle, and failing that, what was accomplished? Admittedly a number of people have departed to locations unknown, but Asher just now sent the message that the deed was accomplished so presumably whatever step 2 is yet to take place. What’s step two? No one in the comic except Dorothy, Mike or Carla plans this far ahead and I think we can rule them out. So???

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          March 23, 2020 at 2:21 am | #

          …perhaps the idea is to get into the dorms undetected while the students are out. Blaine did send Faz here a few days ago to snoop for dirt on Amber.

        • Professor
          Professor
          March 23, 2020 at 2:29 pm | #

          I think perhaps you are not considering the possibly that Asher isn’t the only Korean Mafia agent in play. In fact, this would almost have to include more players. The Despicable Duo are only two, after all. And the cast is getting picked off in groups greater than that. Plus, Toedad isn’t exactly a Solid Snake operator. I’m betting that there are some hitters in play. Blaine the Bastard would absolutely go into further debt just to break his daughter. Plus vengeance for the nosebreak on AG, whose identity he hasn’t realized yet.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            March 23, 2020 at 10:07 pm | #

            If Blaine had access to squads of mob muscle, why would he need Ross? Just as a fall guy?

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      March 23, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

      I called it above you. But 10 minutes later.

    • Savail
      Savail
      March 23, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

      \o/

      Gotta say I really don’t like Ruth’s expression there. Gives me ‘no regrets’ vibes.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 23, 2020 at 1:06 am | #

        But Mike already acted with integrity 76 days ago

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        March 23, 2020 at 3:25 am | #

        Better than “No Regerts.” 🙂

  4. Yumi
    Yumi
    March 23, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Everyone is disappearing. Soon the comic will just be scenery.

    • Dana
      Dana
      March 23, 2020 at 12:29 am | #

      https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/rerun

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 23, 2020 at 8:38 am | #

      Hey! I made that joke yesterday!!

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        March 23, 2020 at 9:12 am | #

        Well, congrats on being hilarious.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 23, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Well fuckshit. This …this is definitely gonna be bad.

    Oh, Asher.

    • Hugo Bedward
      Hugo Bedward
      March 23, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

      At the very least it’ll be over the top

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      March 23, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

      For someone with just 20 appearances, he’s been quite the catalyst

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      March 23, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      Well, maybe it’s not as bad as we think? Maybe Amber finally became too tired to hold Amazi-Girl back and AG is yanking everyone relevant out of the open because last time she was pout Blain and Ross were around?

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 23, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

      Asher gonna drop a very strategic dime one of these days.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        March 23, 2020 at 3:27 am | #

        See, Mike, twice as handsome as you, or twice as good a lover. For a Dime!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 23, 2020 at 10:30 am | #

      At least he looks kind of regretful? Maybe he’ll do a face turn later.

      • Zee
        Zee
        March 23, 2020 at 10:50 am | #

        I mean we already know he doesn’t want to do this, he’s being blackmailed into it. Dude just wants to get an education

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          March 23, 2020 at 1:26 pm | #

          Yeah, I have some sympathy for him here because none of his options were good. Either he does this or he ends up dead in a ditch when grandpa finds out who took his money.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 23, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Whoever said it was Asher working for Blaine, YOU MADE THE RIGHT CALL. (/theme from Monday Night Football)

  7. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    March 23, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Yeah, McAwesome at 4 am, not good.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 23, 2020 at 12:39 am | #

      Yeah, their best stuff is obviously served during the daytime.

  8. ian livs
    ian livs
    March 23, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    as my work friends and I say (bc no cursing on the clock), this situation is VERY HECK

  9. ThatGuyNamedSam
    ThatGuyNamedSam
    March 23, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    This is gonna be a long day

  10. Nono
    Nono
    March 23, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    I see Thanos has entered the webcomic.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 23, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

      “Mr. Rosenthal? I don’t feel so good…”

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 23, 2020 at 1:27 am | #

        In the first panel, Dina is seen looking on as the shadow person from yesterday’s strip turns to dust.

  11. Disastromatic
    Disastromatic
    March 23, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Now everybody down at McDonnellzzz
    They down with Ronnell McDonnell
    And now they hittin’ the bottle
    And everybody cooooool

  12. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 23, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    I had kind of forgotten Asher’s part in this. Wonder if he pulled the alarm, and that’s what is done here, or if it’s something worse than that.

    • Random832
      Random832
      March 23, 2020 at 10:43 pm | #

      For some reason I assumed he stole Amber’s phone.

      • Random832
        Random832
        March 23, 2020 at 10:48 pm | #

        For what it’s worth, it’s a possible match for her phone [i.e. light blue, camera on the center axis, dark shape of unclear purpose on the top edge above the camera] in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/surrendering/ – anyone have a better shot of her phone? We’ve never seen Asher’s phone, by the way.

  13. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    March 23, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Oops, guess Asher is a scumbag after all. Too bad, he’s kinda hot. Oh, well.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 23, 2020 at 12:46 am | #

      Whatever bad dad is counting on Asher is making a big mistake. Asher has track for you can’t trust him when you’re doing crimes.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 23, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

      In fairness, Asher will end up dead in a ditch if it comes out he stole his grandfather’s money. Mobsters don’t tend to like that.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        March 23, 2020 at 9:22 am | #

        Yeah, not a lot of good options when your gramps’s goon shows up with blackmail.

        Still, Sal is DEFINITELY kicking his ass if and when she finds out what happened. (And depending on how public this is about to go – my guess is ‘extremely’ – he’s probably going to go ‘yeah, okay, fair.’)

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          March 23, 2020 at 1:27 pm | #

          Yeah, my guess too.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          March 23, 2020 at 4:52 pm | #

          My guess is that he has done something more complex than follow Blaine’s directions, and that what he has done he intended should effect Blaine’s destruction with no come-back. His treason will turn out to make a significant contribution to the downfall of the bad dads; Sal, Walky, and Amber will end up assessing Asher as an ambiguous figure, not as an evil one.

  14. Norah
    Norah
    March 23, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    DYW

  15. Jamie
    Jamie
    March 23, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Is Asher holding something in his right hand? I can’t tell for sure, let alone what it is.

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      March 23, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Looks to be a keycard… oh shit

    • DuckDuckMoose
      DuckDuckMoose
      March 23, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      Maybe a pack of cigarettes?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 23, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

      It looks like it might be a cigarette lighter or a pack of cigarettes.  Maybe he set off the alarm that way — lighting a cigarette and using the smoke to set off a smoke detector — rather than activating a manual pull station.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        March 23, 2020 at 12:58 am | #

        OR, he actually started a fire.

        • clif
          clif
          March 23, 2020 at 1:51 am | #

          We’ve seen a number of overhead shots with no sign of smoke or flames so presumably there is no fire. It appears to be a card Asher is holding and so it is presumably a student entry card he used to access the building.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 23, 2020 at 10:33 am | #

        That would be the smart thing. Smokes don’t pop vials of ultraviolet dye on your hands like pull stations do.

  16. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    March 23, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    No teenager sent that text message.  He used the correct contraction for “it is”, complete with apostrophe.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 23, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

      Autocorrect?

      • woobie
        woobie
        March 23, 2020 at 1:22 am | #

        autocorrect is really really bad at homonyms
        really bad

      • ReFlex76
        ReFlex76
        March 23, 2020 at 1:53 am | #

        What about autocorrect?

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          March 23, 2020 at 1:58 am | #

          Maybe the text we see is not what Asher typed.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 23, 2020 at 10:38 am | #

            The tail of the speech bubble is coming from the right side of the screen, though. That usually means those are the outgoing messages.

            • Agemegos
              Agemegos
              March 23, 2020 at 4:43 pm | #

              Yes. It is what he sent. But it might not be what he typed. Because of autocorrect. Which might have inserted an apostrophe into “its”.

    • Sam
      Sam
      March 23, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

      But. That is how I would send texts as a teenager. Was I just imaginary.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 23, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

        Same. I’ve always sent texts like that.

      • Nenja
        Nenja
        March 23, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

        Me too.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        March 23, 2020 at 4:44 pm | #

        I used to write and speak more formally when I was a teenager. But we didn’t have text messaging back then.

    • Axel
      Axel
      March 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm | #

      most teenagers I know write texts “correctly,” maybe because they’re good at using phones and it doesn’t really matter to hit one extra key to punctuate or whatever

      (most 40+ moms I know use weird shorthands and the wrong autocorrect words, but I don’t know why it’s specifically moms)

  17. Lumino
    Lumino
    March 23, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    So, what? Did Blaine and Toedad silently kidnap like 7 different people from a large public gathering without anybody noticing?

    • DuckDuckMoose
      DuckDuckMoose
      March 23, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

      That doesn’t make sense if Ball-Peen needs Asher to tell him what’s going on. My guess is Joyce got a bad feeling about things and ran off to find Becky, Sarah and Dorothy followed her, Amber’s sneaking along to protect them, and Ethan and Walky are looking for her.

      For now. Until they all run into some horrible dads and beat them up.

      • clif
        clif
        March 23, 2020 at 1:10 am | #

        Walky and Ethan have gone back in the building after Amber who they believe (rightly or wrongly) to have gone back after her phone.

        • Rotunda
          Rotunda
          March 23, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

          Or else they both believe she’s off being Amazi-Girl.

          • Cybersnark
            Cybersnark
            March 23, 2020 at 10:54 am | #

            Maybe Amazi-Girl has gone back for her phone.

  18. DuckDuckMoose
    DuckDuckMoose
    March 23, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

    And so Ruth enters the “Who will kick the most square inches of Blaine’s ass?” pool.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      March 23, 2020 at 1:26 am | #

      She already had her go.

      Personally I’m rooting for Joyce.

  19. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    March 23, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

    So Asher pulled the alarm… and SuperVillain Dad swooped in and kidnapped everyone?

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      March 23, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      No, Asher’s the Reverse-Flash.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 23, 2020 at 8:43 am | #

      We’ve established his name as ‘Ball-Peen’. *sigh*

      Still prefer ‘The Dad-Joker’…

  20. showler
    showler
    March 23, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

    How is Dina the only one visible?

    • woobie
      woobie
      March 23, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

      Opposite Day?

      • clif
        clif
        March 23, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

        The obvious answer is that because of her ninja-like ability to be unseen, she was the only one not kidnapped. Thing is, I don’t think anyone was kidnapped.

      • Nono
        Nono
        March 23, 2020 at 2:37 am | #

        So with that logic, nobody remembers Becky exists.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          March 23, 2020 at 8:44 am | #

          The closet silently reforms around her.

    • Suzi
      Suzi
      March 23, 2020 at 12:34 pm | #

      She’s also been looking in the direction of everyone who has disappeared so far. Their last appearance and then Dina is looking in their direction of where they just went. Something is going on and only Dina knows.

  21. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    March 23, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

    Comics like this are what makes it difficult to cancel the patreon subscription I should have cancelled 5 months ago

  22. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    March 23, 2020 at 12:41 am | #

    TOW A COMIN’

    • TrueVCU
      TrueVCU
      March 23, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

      *toe

  23. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    March 23, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

    So. It has come to this

    • clif
      clif
      March 23, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

      Whatever this is.

  24. James
    James
    March 23, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

    Could this be concurrent with the Mike/Blaine/Toedad storyline from earlier?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 23, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

      It’s 24 hours later, roughly – the previous chapter showed the aftermath of the party which was concurrent with those events, followed by Amber’s vague sense of unease for much of the day which ultimately culminated in her hallucinating Mike’s presence (and thus leading to her current exhausted state).

      • clif
        clif
        March 23, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

        So no.

  25. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 23, 2020 at 12:53 am | #

    A few people actually called that it was Asher.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 23, 2020 at 1:22 am | #

    PIECE OF SHIT!!!

    • Jay
      Jay
      March 23, 2020 at 7:43 pm | #

      You survive a mob boss you stole money from

  27. Rikunda
    Rikunda
    March 23, 2020 at 1:22 am | #

    They failed one night, so they try again the next… Are they Pinky and the Brain now?!

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 23, 2020 at 1:28 am | #

      Toedad and the Blaine

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        March 23, 2020 at 8:45 am | #

        Pinky-Toe and the Blaine

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        March 23, 2020 at 12:40 pm | #

        NAARF!!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      March 23, 2020 at 1:34 am | #

      Not really Brain, no.

      • WalkerOfSorrow
        WalkerOfSorrow
        March 23, 2020 at 4:18 pm | #

        Pinky and the Big-Toe?

  28. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 23, 2020 at 1:24 am | #

    Now we will have to wait five months to find out what happen with them as well. as people keep dissapearing, the comic will focus exclusively on agatha.

  29. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    March 23, 2020 at 1:43 am | #

    Asher, you pig.

  30. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    March 23, 2020 at 2:05 am | #

    FUCK YOU ASHER! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING KOREAN MOB FAMILY! MAY THE AFTERLIFE EXIST AND YOU ALL MOBSTERS GO TO HELL AND BURN OR FREEZE IN THE NINTH CIRCLE!

    • clif
      clif
      March 23, 2020 at 11:29 pm | #

      Hey, we’re friends here. You can tell us what you really think.

  31. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 23, 2020 at 2:54 am | #

    I was starting to think Asher might be ok after all, but it’s looking like I was wrong.

  32. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    March 23, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

    What is Dina looking at?

  33. Kaffeeteria
    Kaffeeteria
    March 23, 2020 at 3:11 am | #

    Please don’t have killed Mike. :((((((

  34. PiotrW
    PiotrW
    March 23, 2020 at 3:16 am | #

    Oh crap. The evil dads are coming…

  35. thumb
    thumb
    March 23, 2020 at 6:11 am | #

    Oh Asher. You failed at being better.

    • Jay
      Jay
      March 23, 2020 at 7:45 pm | #

      He failed at being better under duress* he kinda had his arm twisted

  36. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    March 23, 2020 at 6:22 am | #

    it’s “done done DOONE”!

  37. goggleman64
    goggleman64
    March 23, 2020 at 7:09 am | #

    Calling it here; this is the storyline where Ruth finally beats someone to death with a femur.

    But not their /own/ femur. She and Blaine are gonna have a femur fight.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 23, 2020 at 7:58 am | #

      Worst case scenario:

      RUTH: “Act with integrity. No regrets.”

  38. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 23, 2020 at 7:58 am | #

    Asher, Asher, Asher. What did you do? Why do you think that you’ll ever be able to face Sal again (and not be carried away in a canvas sack) ever again?

  39. Nymphie
    Nymphie
    March 23, 2020 at 8:34 am | #

    I think the only thing he did was pulling the fire alarm. Toedad and Blaine did the rest

  40. Exarch
    Exarch
    March 23, 2020 at 9:05 am | #

    Do you think the three silhouettes to the left of the stairs are Sarah, Joyce, and Dorothy?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 23, 2020 at 10:42 am | #

      It’s possible, but previously named characters usually get tagged if they appear in a strip at all.

  41. jufreire
    jufreire
    March 23, 2020 at 10:18 am | #

    AH WELL THAT AINT OMINOUS

  42. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 23, 2020 at 10:48 am | #

    Well, at least we are free now.This was clearly a mass kidnapping made by ous less favorite fathers.

  43. Unimehe
    Unimehe
    March 23, 2020 at 12:30 pm | #

    Asher deposited Mike (either dead or unconscious) in his dorm room using the distraction from the pulled alarm.

    • egwenna
      egwenna
      March 23, 2020 at 8:25 pm | #

      That’s highly plausible.

      Now to figure out what happened to Joyce & Co.

  44. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    March 23, 2020 at 1:33 pm | #

    Does “McAwesome’s” refer to someplace on/near the IU campus in the same way “Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs)” references “Mother Bear’s”, or is this just Willis’s way to mention that fast-food place that advertises “billions sold” without actually naming names?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 23, 2020 at 1:50 pm | #

      It could be either, but I hope there’s a counterpart to Galasso’s here.

      For anyone who started with DoA, “McAwesome’s” was Shortpacked!’s equal-but-opposite competitor back in the Walkyverse. It was staffed by doppelgangers of the main cast, so that’s where Rose (Amber) and Zaph (Faz) came from. Mike also worked there when he was Drunk Nice Mike.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 23, 2020 at 4:14 pm | #

        We’ve seen McAwesome’s in DoA. They do sushi.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/ami/

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          March 23, 2020 at 11:18 pm | #

          Sushi at 4:00 AM?

  45. Ailina
    Ailina
    March 23, 2020 at 3:00 pm | #

    I’m worried that he dumped Mike’s body in the dorms somewhere with some sort of staging to make it look like a suicide.

    (Please let me be wrong)

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 23, 2020 at 5:16 pm | #

      Ooh! Nice hypothesis!

      • clif
        clif
        March 23, 2020 at 11:33 pm | #

        Well, if we wanted to go the weird hypothesis route, we could hypothesize that Asher was sending the text to Live Mike.

    • Random832
      Random832
      March 25, 2020 at 2:36 pm | #

      Not sure why they’d bother faking a suicide for someone who in fact jumped off a building [unless you’re assuming that he survived and then they killed him after]

  46. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    March 23, 2020 at 3:51 pm | #

    Asher’s here. The good side of it is that we will see more Sal. The bad side of it is that Sal will definitely have more reasons to still being angry.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      March 23, 2020 at 3:53 pm | #

      Also: We know Ruth is in femur-hungry mode once again. This time she will be a tougher match for Blaine.

  47. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    March 23, 2020 at 7:36 pm | #

    mcawesome’s – it’s awesome [tm]

    and at least ruth’s on the case

  48. Jay
    Jay
    March 23, 2020 at 7:44 pm | #

    I think people are hating Asher too much, he really had no choice in the matter all things considered. Man’s trying to turn his life around and Blaine literally threatened to ruin it all and possibly get Asher killed.

  49. Jim
    Jim
    March 24, 2020 at 10:46 am | #

    Did anyone else notice that the file name of the webcomic image contains the word “diddle”? Any theories on why?

  50. Random832
    Random832
    March 25, 2020 at 2:34 pm | #

    One thing that kind of sucks for Ruth is that even though she’s right that obviously the most likely explanation for people missing in a fire drill is that they wandered off, she probably on paper does have a responsibility to report that several people are unaccounted-for.

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