Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for May 20, 2012
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Laura: Lemme guess. "The Hunger Games"? Female Customer: I've already read them and I loved them, but I'm looking for something new. Laura; I loved them, too. Female customer: You? Aren't you a little too old for "The Hunger Games"? Laura: Too old? I"m only thirty-ni... I'm in my thirties. Female customer: That's sorta old... No offense. Laura: No worries. I remember when I was around your age. There was this movie called "Grease"... Female customer: Oh, that's great that you can still remember back that long. See ya.
beyondnow777 over 12 years ago
I think it would be freakin awesome if I could remember what happened 5000 years ago.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
Snotty girl will get her come-uppance sooner than she thinks.
dante.deangelo over 12 years ago
you can’t survive out in the wild by being nice
adubman over 12 years ago
Just drop What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Laura. That’ll quiet her down.
boogiewoogie over 12 years ago
happy to finally know what laura does for a living this woman is obviously a fast reader if she has read the whole hunger games series mind u the movie came out years after the book so it is feasible that she had already read all the books by the time the movie came out the ironic thing about this strip is that the customer is seeking a new book and instead of asking if laura has anything else she just lambasts her for her supposedly ancient taste in pop culture it is funny to read a book just because its new she is missing out on a lot of good old books in her mad rush for the latest trend
Dani Rice over 12 years ago
My sister once asked our dad, who was born Down Under, if Geo. Washington was president when he was a boy. He never missed a step. Told her he hadn’t come to America until after that, and “Go ask your mother”.
Davepostmp over 12 years ago
Not representative of all teens by all means, but they are out there giving the great majority a bad name.
shewith5 over 12 years ago
Hey now! I’m REALLY close to Laura’s age and I loved The Hunger Games. Girly girl there can just…well something flagable…
djsabc over 12 years ago
I’m celebrating the 22nd anniversary of my 30th birthday this year :)
Durak Premium Member over 12 years ago
If Laura saw Grease when it first came out she’s closer to 50 than 30.
Charles Weir over 12 years ago
Hey, I’m in my 50s and liked Harry Potter. I also enjoy the Warriors series (stories about feral cats).
opentomeet over 12 years ago
My second wife was born in Dec 1957 and died of cancer in Sep 2003 at the age of 39 (and 80 months)… God rest her beautiful soul.
guswild over 12 years ago
sometimes memories are all you have
Comic Minister Premium Member over 12 years ago
Laura is 39? Wow!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago
opentomeet, my condolences.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago
That little lady needs a “smack upside the head”!
Saucy1121 Premium Member over 12 years ago
I’m 53 and enjoyed both Harry Potter and the first Hunger Games book. I haven’t read the other 2 as yet. But, I’ll read almost anything. Love Piers Anthony’s Xanth books, Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Jody Lynn Nye and many others.
lou_lou over 12 years ago
Saying you’re too old for a book is like saying you’re too old for fun! Sometimes your choice may be a little inappropriate, but how else will you expand your horizons?!
trekkermint over 12 years ago
Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games is 50….dude, is she too old to like her own stuff?
mechaman over 12 years ago
Sometimes the customer ISN’T right. “How about you don’t come back, honey? At least until you learn some manners?”
mafastore over 12 years ago
I went to a client today. She is in her mid to late 70’s and a Holocaust survivor. She asked me if I had seen THG. I said yes. She said that she had not seen it, but wants to as she loved the books. So 30 something is not that old.