Grrl Power #1247 - The ol' switcheroo
Added 2024-04-08 10:00:08 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Happy eclipse day if it happens to be basically passing straight over your house like where I am. I'm actually a little south of it but I think we'll get about 2.5 minutes of total eclipse here. Be sure to check out the weird crescent shadows just before and after.
I hope this page makes sense. Most people have gone into autopilot mode while commuting or cleaning or taking out the garbage or whatever, so hopefully it's not totally out of left field. I almost put a can of Pam in the fridge recently while cleaning up after making breakfast, and I have picked up the milk after having cereal and made one step toward the pantry instead of the fridge, but usually when you're autopiloting, I think there's a part of your brain still alert for deviation, so stuff like commuting home but missing your exit and driving to the neighboring town doesn't really happen that often.
Obviously, this does happen to Sydney on occasion - the fact that her apartment complex has a procedure for this specific event tells you that the use of the word "occasion" is probably the polite way of saying "kinda often." With her sleeping at HQ more often than not these days, there are ways this can go bad, as seen here. It's a good thing Sydney doesn't have any pets.
Oh, and since I zoom in way too much while I'm drawing and lose sense of how large things will be in the final page, I attached a large version of it to the the comic post, since it's probably still unreadable at the 2X size. Also, I don't care about the timeline of when the comic started vs the first season of Rick and Morty. I reserve my right to deploy comic time.
Comments
Can Syd put a bubble around something and incinerate it with the PPO while it stays fully enclosed?
akrasia
2024-04-12 06:13:22 +0000 UTCLeast it wasn't solid milk..... accidental yogurt is very good laxative. Do not recommend.
Mathew Aaberg
2024-04-09 05:29:06 +0000 UTCMy biggest take away from this is that Sydney is still thinking like a normie. She has a shield and a extendable tentacle. Bag it up and through the window it goes. (Edit: An open Window)
Mathew Aaberg
2024-04-09 05:26:54 +0000 UTCSometimes popsicles are individually wrapped? Still usually sticky though
Brett Peirce
2024-04-09 03:30:41 +0000 UTCI've found my glasses in the fridge before. Also looked for fifteen minutes before seeing them in my hand on another occasion
Brett Peirce
2024-04-09 03:28:47 +0000 UTCWhen the milk is making sounds like that, the EPA should be notified.
eddi_TBH
2024-04-09 03:04:04 +0000 UTCThe ones I found all use the D12 as a bulb cover. As well as swag lamps and ones that are just the die sitting on a table.
eddi_TBH
2024-04-09 03:02:02 +0000 UTCIt still looks good from her last cleanup binge. As Dave points out, she's been spending more nights at ARCHON than at home.
eddi_TBH
2024-04-09 02:58:24 +0000 UTCTo be fair there are, eh, reasons for a lady to have a Popsicle in her drawers...
akrasia
2024-04-09 02:10:38 +0000 UTC*KLAXON* "🤖WARNING, WARNING, DANGER SYDNEY SCOVILLE, JR. !!!, DANGER !!!🤖"
Terence Bryant-White
2024-04-08 20:55:13 +0000 UTCOh it makes sense. Not proud of it making sense but it does. I’m glad her neighbors are so nice about it though.
Aaron Mauthe
2024-04-08 20:27:48 +0000 UTCI want that D12 lamp though
Fogel
2024-04-08 18:37:09 +0000 UTCI can neither confirm nor deny that I have done something like this, more than once. Definitely not this extreme. Most annoying was tossing a bag of potatoes in the freezer after getting home from the store. I did not realize my mistake until I went to cook them. Frozen raw potatoes - for those that don't know - are pretty much only useful as compost. I don't drive (bad eyes) and on multiple occasions have caught a friend starting to drive home instead of dropping me off first (or go wherever we were supposed to be going) because we were chatting and they were driving on autopilot.
Eric Loken
2024-04-08 18:28:27 +0000 UTCI can sympathise. I once was having cereal for breakfast and suddenly thought that the milk carton felt way too heavy. My eyes focused, and I realized I was half a second from dousing my bowl of muesli with a jug of Coca-Cola. I have no idea how that neural shortcircuit happened.
Tim
2024-04-08 18:04:20 +0000 UTCMy mother once found her glasses in the fridge. I'll never let her live it down :3
Carlos
2024-04-08 18:03:07 +0000 UTCLook, I can accept the existence of magic and superpowers in this comic, but someone with Sydney's levels of ADHD having a clean, organized apartment? That's just a bridge too far for me.
Erin Palette
2024-04-08 16:13:27 +0000 UTCThank goodness I've never done it with perishable foods...
Merle Blue
2024-04-08 14:44:18 +0000 UTCdont have to be sleepy to autopilot common tasks in your home^^ i once went to pour me a bowl of cereals... halfway through, i had to open a new pack and dispose of the now empty one... so i turned around and almost poured milk into the recycling bin and the plastic waste into my bowl... wasnt really sleepy or tired... just not particularily engaged with the task and got wires crossed though i do think this is much more likely to happen to people on the ADHD spectrum... no clue if im on that, but i at least know that feeling - i just usually catch myself before committing too far^^
Sharien Radaik
2024-04-08 14:41:40 +0000 UTCTook me a minute to understand. I've never done that, because everything in my kitchen has its designated place. Also, I don't eat when sleepy.
Stephen Gilberg
2024-04-08 13:42:54 +0000 UTCWouldn't she just find popsicle sticks, and a lot of wet sticky underwear (don't get dirty - they're sticky because of the sugar, and wet because of the melted ice) In her underwear drawer. Oh and some mold if it's been a week or so...
Martin Croft
2024-04-08 13:02:23 +0000 UTCI'm rereading 'Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody'
Wyrmhand
2024-04-08 12:54:44 +0000 UTCI don't tend to put items in the wrong place, but my ADHD loves to put important items in places where they blend in with the background. Last week I put my blue-green socks on my more blue-green chair, and could not find them a couple of minutes later, despite looking right at them several times; BUT, when I went and got a different pair of socks, and then sat in my more-blue-green chair, I found my first pair of socks. Thanks, ADHD!
Town Crier
2024-04-08 12:54:33 +0000 UTCFeel Sydney, for sure. I have put the milk in the cabinet before (though I didn't leave it there long, thank goodness. Also left my cell phone in the freezer, in the closet, and in the deep freeze (that thing got around).
Gelatinous Cube
2024-04-08 12:53:22 +0000 UTCShe's obviously in her secret identity...
Town Crier
2024-04-08 12:50:51 +0000 UTCThree times is enemy action.
Town Crier
2024-04-08 12:50:25 +0000 UTCNope - it is always centered on her. She could put herself AND the milk in the shield, but that would occupy one hand with the shield orb for little benefit. A better orb use might be holding the milk with the molest-orb, but we haven't really seen how fine her squeeze control is.
Richard Riley
2024-04-08 12:49:32 +0000 UTCCouldn't she put her shield around the milk jug to contain it better?
qxvw198
2024-04-08 12:43:49 +0000 UTCI love how you capture the Adult ADHD experience so well.
Mr. Bear
2024-04-08 12:15:36 +0000 UTC100% put my car keys in the pantry for some reason took ages to find them.
Rob Wright
2024-04-08 11:53:56 +0000 UTCTell her not feel bad we have all had a mindless F-up at least once.
Edward Brady
2024-04-08 11:52:32 +0000 UTCYeah, audio books are my answer to my brain 'auto-piloting' right pass the exit I need. They keep my thoughts from internalizing to the point I stop noticing road signs (though I never lose track of the road itself or traffic on or near it, just the signs and where I'm supposed to be turning, though I do still notice stop signs and rail road crossing signs). Also, at least once a week I'll plan on stopping at the store for something as I'm leaving work and not remember that until I'm at home backing into the driveway, or worse just took my boots off while supper is heating up and I'm trying to get ready to eat supper and take a shower (not at the same time). I've never done anything as extreme as Sydney did there, but if I'm out of it enough to do that food and I usually aren't on agreeable terms, and that's the ONLY reason it hasn't happened a few times.
Anton Schleef
2024-04-08 11:49:50 +0000 UTCOk you killed me with the rick and morty o's. A wake up laugh i didnot expect! And yeah haven't done the milk thing but had similar
Serp Auer
2024-04-08 11:47:06 +0000 UTCWMDs come in all shapes and sizes.
Michael Obert
2024-04-08 10:56:54 +0000 UTCI like how she is using one of those gripper things despite having the light hook. I can also imagine her opening a window and using the light hook to take the trash all the way to the dumpster from inside her apartment.
Jared Kolbly
2024-04-08 10:45:54 +0000 UTCOnce is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. Five or more times, there should really be a protocol.
Czarzhan
2024-04-08 10:17:11 +0000 UTCweird brain: oh boy, the milk is afraid of the cereal.
Stefan Schmiedl
2024-04-08 10:12:02 +0000 UTCOh yeah, done this. Left my e-reader or phone in the fridge at least once each.
KnightRider007
2024-04-08 10:04:20 +0000 UTCThe fact they already have protocols for this means it's happened more than once before
DonnieRamesJio
2024-04-08 10:03:43 +0000 UTC
