I assume she didn’t want to leave it running all day and was either waiting for it to get hot using nancy as a litmus test, or waiting for nancy to get home, or both
that is a dangerous table to have in a school, but in my experience, safer to have in Nancy’s elementary school than in a high school. it’s been a while but in my high school people were constantly running into tables, throwing eachother on them, etc
They did this in the town neighbouring my hometown to keep kids and teens from “loitering” (it had the wonderful effect of forcing them to hang out in less safe areas, as it was done near the library, pool, etc). They also do it at (by which I mean on the speakers outside of) a McDonalds downtown in the city I used to live in. Of course, everyone who loiters there are actually adults anyway, and it too pushes teens to hang out in less safe, less lit (as in lighting, not Sluggo) areas.
Thank you! I’ve been reading through the Nancy archive in order so no shock at what you said (when you’ve read everything within a couple weeks, the repeated gags and redraws (and directly repeated strips with a different date jotted on them, yikes) are rather apparent).
(for anyone curious, as last time I tied to google this it took forever to find the right clip: https://jacobtheloofah.tumblr.com/post/148002188156/side-note-teaching-myself-to-pronounce-that-last )
I assume she didn’t want to leave it running all day and was either waiting for it to get hot using nancy as a litmus test, or waiting for nancy to get home, or both