This reminds me of my first job (McDonald’s) when I had to make a soft-serve ice cream cone. I wasn’t the greatest soft-serve ice cream artist, so I often had to wing it — with interesting results.
My first job was at a mom-and-pop ice cream place. I worked the grill and fryer. The one time I tried to help with the ice cream side, they informed me that I wasn’t allowed to be up front anymore. Five years working there and I STILL can’t get that little hook on the top of the ice cream right.
I hope that your first attempt with the ice cream ended a little more disastrously than just not getting the hook on top right, or completely banning you from the front seems like an overreaction.
No, no–the “not getting the hook right” is after 5 years of trying. My first attempts were rather more explode-y. I learned that peanut butter cup mixed with soft serve can in fact stick to ceilings. And cloths. And customers. And bosses…..
Oddly enough, I set the place on fire twice as a fry cook (heat lamps live up to their name) yet was allowed to continue working with the hot cooking implements.
Adam, your refusal to adhere to the fourth wall is hardly original, but far more entertaining than most others, purely because you never overdo it. Your constant blurring between metaphor and narrative, on the other hand, is something I have never seen in any other comic I frequent, and the hppes of seeing more is one of many reasons I keep coming back.
This reminds me of my first job (McDonald’s) when I had to make a soft-serve ice cream cone. I wasn’t the greatest soft-serve ice cream artist, so I often had to wing it — with interesting results.
My first job was at a mom-and-pop ice cream place. I worked the grill and fryer. The one time I tried to help with the ice cream side, they informed me that I wasn’t allowed to be up front anymore. Five years working there and I STILL can’t get that little hook on the top of the ice cream right.
I hope that your first attempt with the ice cream ended a little more disastrously than just not getting the hook on top right, or completely banning you from the front seems like an overreaction.
No, no–the “not getting the hook right” is after 5 years of trying. My first attempts were rather more explode-y. I learned that peanut butter cup mixed with soft serve can in fact stick to ceilings. And cloths. And customers. And bosses…..
Oddly enough, I set the place on fire twice as a fry cook (heat lamps live up to their name) yet was allowed to continue working with the hot cooking implements.
Adam, your refusal to adhere to the fourth wall is hardly original, but far more entertaining than most others, purely because you never overdo it. Your constant blurring between metaphor and narrative, on the other hand, is something I have never seen in any other comic I frequent, and the hppes of seeing more is one of many reasons I keep coming back.
So if this comic is at all accurate, does your wife just stare at you with a confused look all year like you have no idea what you are talking about?
That is NOT how Dairy Queen makes an ice cream cone! Where’s the swirl?!
Aw, it removed my tags =(