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by Paul Taylor on July 2, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Christi
    July 2, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Last panel? Yeah, I’m full of smiles now. 😀

  2. Fairportfan
    July 2, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    As Amanda visualises the implications of that…

    • Hinoron
      November 26, 2016, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

      You mean as Amanda TRIES.

  3. txmystic
    July 2, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    LMAO! Amanda’s trying to figure out how it is possible to run over your own wrist…

    • Jim
      July 2, 2010, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Heheh . Yep .

    • Jabberwonky
      July 2, 2010, 4:54 am | # | Reply

      As am I…

      • Eee
        July 2, 2010, 10:52 am | #

        Well, she didn’t say she backed over her wrist with a car. If she was driving a motorcycle – (flashs on an image of Tina on a monster chopper roaring down the road, wind sweeping her hair back and leathers hugging her body) – uh, what was I talking about? Oh yes. If she was trying to park a bike, and fell off and it rolled back… It’d be a complicated and unlikely sequence, but this IS Tina we’re talking about.

    • Darg
      July 2, 2010, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      To quote Tucker (and Private Jimmy) from Red vs Blue, “That doesn’t seem physically possible!”

    • Etak
      May 18, 2012, 3:56 am | # | Reply

      Mine was similar. *snerk*

  4. Tessa
    July 2, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Hrrm Did she fall out of her car at some point while parking? She must be a horrid driver.

  5. D. Walker
    July 2, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Running over one’s WRIST while parallel parking? Tina must either be a phenomenally bad driver, or a god-like one.

    ~D.

    • Fairportfan
      July 2, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      …or Making Stuff Up in order to Fuck With Amanda’s Mind…

      • jwhouk
        July 2, 2010, 7:50 am | #

        I’ll take that for $200, Alex.

  6. Fatuncle
    July 2, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    OK … I’m trying to picture that … uh … urg … omf … does anyone have an aspirin?

    • Fairportfan
      July 2, 2010, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Actually, there were times i was working on my Sprite that, had the handbrake slipped, i might have run over my wrist while still technically still inside the car.

    • Biker Matt
      July 2, 2010, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Amanda’s thinking the same thing…

    • Vargen
      July 2, 2010, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      I once had to help a man who’d managed to park a heavy garbage truck on his own hand. He’d parked on an icy slope, and wanted to place a rock in front of a wheel to make sure the truck didn’t slip. It DID slip, just when his hand was in front of the wheel. Then it stopped, with his hand trapped beneath the wheel. He was stuck there for 15 minutes, and his hand did not look good afterwards.

  7. The Old Wolf
    July 2, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Tina is a foxy lady. Uh, demon. Uh, legion. Uh… oh, hqiz, you know what I mean!

    • rich
      June 25, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      so, i’ve been looking online, but i can’t find the definition of hqiz. anyone mind giving me a clue?

      • shenron
        February 15, 2018, 8:57 pm | #

        only if you can present a certificate of insanity and proof of fully paid possession insurance from a church accredited for exorcisms.

  8. Cheesy1
    July 2, 2010, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Loving Amanda’s “Wait a damn minute. . .” look in the last panel!

    • ckret
      July 2, 2010, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s more of a “This chic is wacked out look”

      • Fatuncle
        July 2, 2010, 12:18 pm | #

        I think this chick is whack out. Stoned. High on painkillers. Just at the edge of coherent speech, and over the edge of coherent thought.

  9. Fairportfan
    July 2, 2010, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Tina has a brand-new chain to yank…

  10. GunnerWalker
    July 2, 2010, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Amanda’s Mind is Blown

    • SoWhyMe
      July 2, 2010, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      Must be. I notice Amanda is still staring at the area where Tina was, unaware she has moved on.

  11. ziggy78eog
    July 2, 2010, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I have known some pretty bad drivers, but I do not think I have ever known of one who was so bad, that person ran over him/herself.

    • Rennod
      July 2, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Well, I’m guessing lifting might have been involved somehow, but…

      As to running over yourself, I think it “technically” has been done before, but the only thing I can recall clearly was an old story of a farmer who accidentally fell off his tractor while tending a field. The rear wheels ran over and broke his legs, but the steering wheel was turned slightly. While he tried to drag himself away, the engine turned around and ran over him again, before the arc widened enough to sink the thing in a ditch before it could loop around for a third run. He survived.

      • SoWhyMe
        July 2, 2010, 1:18 am | #

        Perhaps she leaned way out if the car, all the way down in order to look under it to see how far the curb was, fell out and it rolled over her wrist.

      • jayessell
        July 2, 2010, 6:48 am | #

        Hence the orgin of the expression
        “a harrowing experience”.

        The harrow is farm machinery.
        You wouldn’t want one to go over you.

      • Branwyn
        July 3, 2010, 10:32 pm | #

        My sister’s ex-boyfriend ran himself over — he left the car in gear, got out, and went around in front of it…as it slooooowly rolled forward. Knocked him on his ass and ran over his hand before my sister could get herself into the driver’s seat and knock it into park. 😀 He was a jerkwad anyhow, heh-heh.

    • BMonk
      January 22, 2025, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      I too cannot say I know any drivers that bad – but, OTOH, I have read reports in the paper that some people (likely drunk) have managed to kill themselves by running over themselves while (apparently) adjusting a trailer in icy conditions.

  12. Bucc-i
    July 2, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    oooooooooooooKAY!
    I’ll have whatever drugs they gave Tina.

    • Paul Taylor
      July 2, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      http://www.drugs.com/propofol.html 🙂

      • Akamar
        July 2, 2010, 3:01 am | #

        XD ahhh, those sound nice.

      • ckret
        July 2, 2010, 6:07 am | #

        It just makes you forget, nothing to it really. Kinda puts you outta it for 5 minutes and then your back. I had it a couple years ago when I snaped my leg. They gave it too me, then reset my leg. After I came too about 5 minutes later, I said ” So when are you gonna set my leg?”

      • Jabberwonky
        July 2, 2010, 5:14 am | #

        “Propofol provides loss of awareness for short diagnostic tests and surgical procedures, sleep at the beginning of surgery, and supplements other types of general anesthetics.”

        Do we really want Tina to have loss of awareness?

      • txmystic
        July 2, 2010, 9:53 am | #

        Tina seems awfully alert, is this one of those anesthetics that wear off really fast?

      • Paul Taylor
        July 2, 2010, 10:32 am | #

        From personal experience, you can be kind of punchy and talkative after the dose starts to metabolize in your system.

  13. Fairportfan
    July 2, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I’ve long suspected that Tina is a Trickster figure.

    • Biker Matt
      July 2, 2010, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Sure, but she’s got to keep it low-key.

      • Jabberwonky
        July 2, 2010, 4:55 am | #

        Ahhh…my brain is bleeding….

      • j2p2
        July 2, 2010, 7:04 am | #

        In Egypt, you could also say she’s Set in her ways, but I like your reference better…

      • Biker Matt
        July 3, 2010, 6:10 am | #

        More like she’s Set after her ways. Remember, time stopped.

      • Julie
        July 2, 2010, 7:40 am | #

        Bah-ha!! Makes me think of one of my favorite books…I really need to read American Gods again…

      • Jabberwonky
        July 3, 2010, 5:57 am | #

        A most excellent book that I heartily endorse for re-reads…

    • jordinyc
      July 2, 2010, 1:25 am | # | Reply

      There’s a difference between “Trickster” and “Jackass”

      • Biker Matt
        July 3, 2010, 6:11 am | #

        Tell that to the Marvel writers…

      • Fairportfan
        July 4, 2010, 6:27 pm | #

        Got a particular character and/or writer in mind?

        (Personally, my take on that sort of thing isn’t Marvel-related – it’s Ambush Bug.)

      • Biker Matt
        July 5, 2010, 1:36 am | #

        The portrayal of Loki, who is supposed to be about thought over battle, and mischief, which is why he was always so hated.

        In Marvel, he’s downright evil, taking things personally, and, well, being an all-around jackass

      • Dubael
        July 5, 2010, 1:11 pm | #

        Never rely on a mass marketing engine like Marvel to bother to acquaint themselves with the reality of an entity from mythology. They’ll claim poetic license, and if they’ve ‘acquainted’ themselves to Loki’s interest, they’re welcome to it. *feral grin*

  14. DJ
    July 2, 2010, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    It’s easy. Tina shared some of her demons with the Muñeca para el dia de los muertos and they were driving while when they backed over Tina’s wrist.

  15. Jacobus
    July 2, 2010, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Wouldn’t she be referring to when her ward was killed by a bus and she took her identity?
    Although I think I may even be confused.

    • BKWhite
      July 3, 2010, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

      When Tina was in that accident she wasn’t running a coffee shop – she didn’t even reside in the Minneapolis area at the time.

  16. jordinyc
    July 2, 2010, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Step 1 – Discover a mutual friend is actually a huge threat to you genetically
    Step 2 – Find out you two are “on the same page” and therefore somehow not a threat
    Step 3 – Find out the person you’re taking care of was worried about you
    Step 4 – Suddenly break your own arm for absolutely no reason whatsoever
    Step 5 – Act like nothing happened
    Step 6 – ????
    Step 7 – Profit?

    • txmystic
      July 2, 2010, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Did this business model come from the underpants gnomes?

      • SoWhyMe
        July 2, 2010, 2:26 pm | #

        And a “classic” meme was born with the Underpants Gnomes But it’s not all that far fetched. The Dot-Com bubble burst came about because so many web-based startups followed that very model.

        Thanks for that link, BTW.

    • Heather D
      July 2, 2010, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      Yea, my thoughts too, more or less. I could see her doing something like this to demonstrate to Phix that she’s not a threat but I haven’t a clue as to how it would do that.

      If anything it’d be more likely to convince me that she’s not all there upstairs.

      • scantrontb
        January 17, 2012, 9:02 pm | #

        it’s obvious… Tina overheard M and Amanda talking about her having this “bad feeling” and rather than having to go into explanations over just “why” Monica’s having that reaction at all, Tina decided to fake out Amanda with an injury that Monica “predicted”… thus Amanda is now thrown off track as to why they came back after Phix was so intent on having them leave in the first place… i am assuming that Tina hid the actual act of breaking her arm from Amanda at least, and probably both of them, at least until after they got to the hospital, in order to keep up the spoof, to keep the correct facial expressions and stress levels up, then she told Monica what REALLY happened to her, just prior to panel 1.

  17. LW18(LADYWOLF)
    July 2, 2010, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    For what it’s worth, Tina You are lucky to have good friends who care about you, but you got to stop injuring yourself. That is so not cool.

    • jordinyc
      July 2, 2010, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      Yes, Tina! Injuring yourself just to have a particularly scary “Big Lipped Alligator Moment” is not only not cool, but it’s also hurtful to those who DO care about you.

      • Fairportfan
        July 2, 2010, 2:36 am | #

        You could, perhaps, go read some other comic if you don’t like this one.

      • SoWhyMe
        July 2, 2010, 5:49 am | #

        Where did that remark come from?

      • Ganthan
        July 2, 2010, 4:30 pm | #

        Indeed Fairportfan. Random internet memes may be cringeworthy but there’s no need to come right out and tell someone to piss off over it.

        Knowing my luck, though, somebody will likely now tell me that I not only misunderstood your comment, but also Jordinyc’s comment, Ladywolf’s comment, the definition of meme and of existence itself.

      • Paul Taylor
        July 2, 2010, 10:01 pm | #

        C’mon folks, have a beer and shake. 🙂 Quit dancing like that, I meant “shake hands”. 😛

      • Fairportfan
        July 2, 2010, 10:27 pm | #

        Sorry. Another site i frequent has had seroius troll problems, and i can be a tad hyper-sensitive.

        And all the comments i saw from jordinyc seemed to me a tad snide. So i over-reacted. Will try to not do so again…

        Meanwhile: Are you offering to buy the beers, Paul, or am i expected to supply my own?

      • jordinyc
        July 2, 2010, 11:28 pm | #

        I’m sorry guys, really, I didn’t mean to piss anyone off. And I’ll get the second round at least. Call me nuttier than a Thai kitchen but I care about these characters, and the whole busted arm thing really seemed to come straight out of nowhere, was way over the top, didn’t make any sense, and was quite possibly on it’s way to never being spoken of again as if it never happened. And that kinda .. pissed me off a little i guess.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRBPlnBg24

        The truth is I should friggin know better. I’ve been reading this for YEARS and I know that whatever the explanation is, it’ll surface at some point and at the very least fit the scenario and their crazy mixed up universe. The continuity of Wapsi blows my socks off on a regular basis.

        Dr Who fans: I had a similar reaction to “The Pandorica Opens.” “Big Bang” WAY more than made up for it, you are gonna freaking LOVE IT!!!

      • Fairportfan
        July 2, 2010, 11:33 pm | #

        Another vote for “Big Bang”

        Loved the Nile penguins…

      • Biker Matt
        July 3, 2010, 6:16 am | #

        Paul: Shake hands, maybe, but not the one in the cast… it’ll either hurt or itch!

        Fairport: Trolls? would that be in one of the 910CMX forums?

      • Fatuncle
        July 3, 2010, 8:17 am | #

        Ganthan: Don’t worry, no one is going to tell you that you misunderstood a comment, or the definition of meme and of existence itself.

        However, in the first sentence of your reply, you left out a comma, and in the second seOW!ow ow ouch owwie quit quit quit –!

      • Fairportfan
        July 3, 2010, 4:04 pm | #

        Nah – “Pibgorn”.

  18. SqueakyTiki
    July 2, 2010, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    It’s a good thing Amanda is in the hospital because it looks like her eyes could pop out at any given moment.

  19. hewolf
    July 2, 2010, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    How the hell do you DO that?

  20. SoWhyMe
    July 2, 2010, 5:58 am | # | Reply

    Looks like another one of my posts was taken totally the wrong way again, it being gone and all. Sometimes I just don’t understand you folks.

    • Paul Taylor
      July 2, 2010, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      Your post wasn’t removed by me and nothing is in the spam folder. Not sure why it didn’t post.

      • SoWhyMe
        July 2, 2010, 2:01 pm | #

        Oh, ok, my apologies to you, Paul and all others here. I guess I’m just being paranoid.

      • Biker Matt
        July 3, 2010, 6:18 am | #

        Hey, one of my posts had been pulled before… I think it might be a glitch (and not Bob’s, either 😀 )

  21. Milksie
    July 2, 2010, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    So uh is Amanda in on the arm thing being on purpose or not? I can’t tell if Monica is saying it as an aside in the first panel or not

  22. Lurkily
    July 2, 2010, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    I love the expression on Amanda’s face in that last panel.

    “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?”

  23. jwhouk
    July 2, 2010, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Uh, What?

    How in the world do you back over your…

    Wait, I think I see Amanda’s gears grinding to a halt, too.

  24. Kestralyn
    July 2, 2010, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Well, my ex once parked his own car on his foot, so it can be done! The look on Amanda’s face is priceless 🙂

  25. WoodGracie
    July 2, 2010, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Monica had a really “bad feeling” about Tina, we know Tina was potentially in danger from Phix and Monica sensed that. Tina has more secrets in the basement and those may be more dangerous than we think. I think Tina injured herself so she could confirm Monica’s bad feeling and distract her from whatever is in the basement. She’s trying to protect Monica from her secrets in the basement and any potential negativity toward Phix if Monica found out that Phix is a danger to Tina.

    • Paul Taylor
      July 2, 2010, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      🙂 *gives a Phix cyber cookie*

      • WoodGracie
        July 4, 2010, 1:14 am | #

        ooooo…really??!!! YAY! Thank you thank you!! 🙂

    • eschmenk
      July 2, 2010, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      Did you mean WoodGracie, rather than Phix?

      • Paul Taylor
        July 2, 2010, 11:49 am | #

        *Gives a Phix cyber cookie “to” Woodgracie*

      • Fatuncle
        July 2, 2010, 12:26 pm | #

        Oh. Dangerous hadn’t occurred to me. In fact, secrets we didn’t all ready know about didn’t occur to me.

        I’m going to have to think about that for a while …

      • eschmenk
        July 2, 2010, 1:22 pm | #

        Doh! I read the first one as “Gives Phix a cyber cookie.”

        Anyway, I think we know (in general terms) why Tina seemed so reluctant to go into the basement and perhaps why she was worried for Monica. It wasn’t the darkness — Monica just didn’t know where the light switch was at.

        Yet it seems odd that Tina didn’t at least yell down at Monica and try to warn her in a least a vague way. Perhaps it is something that is very bad somehow, but not immediately dangerous.

    • BKWhite
      July 2, 2010, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll go a step further and say we might have already seen what was dangerous.
      Monica projected a bit of her own background into her experience in the basement, she assumed that what she saw was a “muñeca para el Dia de los Muertos.” With Tina’s known background / history we, as observers, found Monica’s statement entirely reasonable (and kind of cool in a morbid way).
      Unfortunately, much of Tina’s history, before and after her ‘death’, remains unknown. I, for one, believe that the ‘doll’ might not be as easily explained as Monica thinks.
      Tina has managed to effectively distract everyone from thinking further about it.

  26. eschmenk
    July 2, 2010, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Tina seems to be biting her lip in the last panel. What’s that about?

    I think it’s a reaction to what Monica is saying. Normally that’s a sign of worry and Tina looks worried. Is it because Monica sounds like she isn’t going to do anything (full day of boring boredom) or is it because Monica will stay with Amanda all day or is it because Monica now says that she’ll go to the museum, rather than the library or the annex?

    Whatever, Tina seemed to be upbeat until she heard what Monica said.

    • Paul Taylor
      July 2, 2010, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      Tina just realized that what she had just said might seem a bit odd by M brushing past it like she did.

      • eschmenk
        July 2, 2010, 11:22 am | #

        Oh, one of those awkward moments. I had considered that, but Tina seemed to just change subjects in the past.. Of course, she’s still a bit rattled and not at work.

        So, now we are left with Monica not going to the library to research Jin’s problem. Instead, she will have to do normal museum work because Amanda will be with her. At least that’s what Monica is thinking. We also don’t know what, if anything, Tina saw in Amanda’s aura that made Tina so eager to have Amanda accompany Monica.

        I see I hit the wrong “Reply” link above.

      • txmystic
        July 2, 2010, 1:00 pm | #

        We’ll get to the annex sooner or later…can’t wait!

      • eschmenk
        July 2, 2010, 1:53 pm | #

        You might have to. The diaries were first mentioned three years ago.

        Another thought occurred to me: Did Tina just make up the story she just told Amanda about breaking her arm, but was too loopy (from the drugs) to realize how bad of a story it was until she said it? We’ll probably never know for sure.

      • SoWhyMe
        July 2, 2010, 2:52 pm | #

        At least Monica can use the “it was just the drugs talking” excuse for anything Tina says for a while now.

  27. kingklash
    July 2, 2010, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of the “Twit of the Year” sketch from Monty Python. One contestant runs himself over with his own car, and although dead, he still has a chance to win.

    Tina is so cute in a “not quite on this planet” kind of way.

  28. Spencey
    July 2, 2010, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    Hilarious mental image! I’m going to need a diagram!

  29. Rowan Hawthorn
    July 2, 2010, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    Amanda: **TILT!**

    • jwhouk
      July 2, 2010, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think too many of these whippersnappers understand what that means anymore (tragically).

      • Fatuncle
        July 2, 2010, 5:27 pm | #

        Not in a Wii world, they don’t.

      • Lurkily
        July 2, 2010, 7:48 pm | #

        It PERFECTLY describes what’s going on in Amanda’s head right now, though.

  30. SoWhyMe
    July 2, 2010, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

    To what “same page” is Tina referring? The page where they are all in agreement (now, anyway) that Amanda should not be privy to the supernatural goings on? Especially Phix’s library?

  31. Tigergulp
    July 2, 2010, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

    I’m pretty good at imagination, but I just can’t see how she ran over her wrist…..-squints-

    • NOTDilbert
      July 3, 2010, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      It occurs to me that it’s much easier to do if the forearm is already detatched from the body. (But don’t call her a zombie)

      • Fairportfan
        July 3, 2010, 3:57 pm | #

        Or. come to think, if you have two bodies…

      • shenron
        February 15, 2018, 9:41 pm | #

        or if you move the wheel with a wing while pushing the throttle with the tail when trying to examine under the car, but I recommend only doing it if you can take the pressure of the roll over or properly lift the car so the wheels spin free.

  32. Biker Matt
    July 3, 2010, 7:13 am | # | Reply

    I just realised what the doll is for, and I gotta say it’s some of the more subtle pieces of plot development I’ve seen, not to mention a higher quality writing than I’ve seen outside a bestselling novel.

    Perfect case of Fridge Logic.

    • jwhouk
      July 3, 2010, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      I’m glad someone other than Pablo knows what it’s for.

      • Biker Matt
        July 3, 2010, 8:01 am | #

        The doll is for the spirits of the dead to inhabit.

        In this case… TINA!

      • SoWhyMe
        July 3, 2010, 2:59 pm | #

        Could be, but it may be that it’s not a regular thing. Tina may not be there at the present time. Perhaps she is trying to lure Tina back with it To inhabit it, if only for a day.

      • jwhouk
        July 4, 2010, 7:56 pm | #

        This is true… but there’s also that Aztec side of the story as well.

    • NOTDilbert
      July 3, 2010, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      Fridge logic. I had never heard of that before. Wonderful stuff.

    • Fairportfan
      July 3, 2010, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      Reading the “fridge logic” article. i have to say Hitchcock wasn’t as sneaky as he thought – the first time i saw “Vertigo” as an adult (previously saw it once on teevee at age twelve or so), i picked up on that one as soon as it happened.

  33. Den
    July 3, 2010, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    For what it’s worth, regarding Tina’s past injury, I once ran over myself while driving a (small) Ford tractor, an 8N. I broke my collarbone in the process. I won’t go into the details of how I accomplished this feat, but it involved failing to take the tractor out of gear while dismounting at the same time.

    Having said that, Tina breaking her wrist while parallel parking doesn’t sound at all strange.

  34. Dafydd
    July 3, 2010, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    Aww…nobody signed her cast!

  35. Opus the Poet
    July 3, 2010, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

    I just realized a way to break your arm parallel parking, hit the curb at a bad angle and have the steering wheel kick back while holding it through the spokes. Similar to what happens in open-wheel car racing where they hit the wall and the steering kickback breaks thumbs, or removes them.

    • SoWhyMe
      July 3, 2010, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      Very good. That actually sounds rational. I wonder if that would happen with power steering though since there is a large disconnect between the force on the wheels and the steering wheel?

      Still she said she backed over her wrist so that might not apply in this case.

  36. Fatuncle
    July 4, 2010, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

    Um … where’s the vote button?

    • Paul Taylor
      July 4, 2010, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

      I believe that the voting site is down as that is a hot-link.

      • Fatuncle
        July 4, 2010, 7:28 pm | #

        Ah. I vote once each cycle, and popped in to do so, and the button had gone away.

  37. Centaur1971
    July 4, 2010, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    If she was able to do that, she must have been beside herself! HA! HA! HA!

  38. Centaur1971
    July 5, 2010, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

    People, people, people; just enjoy the comic that good ol’ PW has provided for us. Turn off the brain and enjoy the rain…

  39. Sandpunk
    July 6, 2010, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    I actually used to work with a lady that ran over herself. She had forgotten to put her car in park when she got out, tried to jump back in and got pulled under. She was a mess for like a month.

  40. Varkas
    February 22, 2018, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    I think I figured it out. Provided the incident happened at some point when the ground was slippery and possibly parallel parking on a hill. She may have forgotten the parking brake, slipped, and the car rolled over her arm

  41. BMonk
    January 22, 2025, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

    Two thoughts here:
    1. Tina has had really bad luck with driving. She gets killed, and then runs over her wrist parallel parking.

    2. Were this page not called “Parallel Parking,” it could be called “Boring Boredom.”

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