Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 14, 2010

Glad I don’t have that job. Footloose & fancy-free!

Leaving the job but gaining a bar-tab.

Good luck in your retirement.

“There’s a tear in my beer.” salt!! ummm

And bubbles.

Reminds me of Bobcat; “No, I wasn’t fired; I went to my job, and there was some other guy doing it. And my girlfriend didn’t exactly dump me; I went to see her, and there was some other guy doing…”

Wife divorced me, retired from my job, now I’m happy as hell.

The way I heard him say it was: “I lost my job the other day. Well I didn’t really lose it. I mean I know where it’s at. It’s just that every time I go there some other guy is doing it.”

At least the job won’t take the house and kids.

Whatroughbeast: ““I lost my job the other day. Well I didn’t really lose it. I mean I know where it is. It’s just that every time I go there some other guy is doing it.”

Followed (after some intervening bits) by “I lost my girlfriend the other day. Well I didn’t really lose her. I mean I know where she is. It’s just that every time I go there some other guy is doing it.”

Between the two of you, you had it right.

Awww, that was sad…

Got my papers last year. Good luck on the return to the “dating” arena. Seems they only want the young ones.

Lost my job (retired). Now all I can do is follow sites like Gocomics, read novels while they are hot off the press, take walks, spend time with my family, and sharpen my fish hooks for two months from now. Why’d I ever leave that job?

I don’t know about beer, but they make my potato chips soggy.

In real life they don’t let beer mugs pile up in front of you. Only on TV and in comics.

You need a job to pay for more beer…………………………

Beware of taverns where they serve draft beer only in disposable plastic cups. That may be so that glass mugs are not available for the patrons to use as weapons.

I’ve seen the results of a beer mug to the face. It wasn’t pretty.

JohnH, in the paper within this past week I read an article announcing the development, in England, of not one but two new technologies for making shatterproof pint glasses. I remember that one uses a two-layered, polymer-bonded construction similar to automobile windshields.

They can still be used as bludgeons, of course, but a reduction in gashings is the hoped-for result…

The mug-to-the-face didn’t break the mug (glass), only the face (mug). This is getting confusing. I guess it was a mug-to-the-mug.

Seriously, it caused extensive damage and almost killed the man.

I have seen the result too, a welt that looked exactly like a hockey puck formed on his face.

Sorry, thebird55, my mind went to pint glasses rather than mugs because that’s how it’s served in the places I frequent. I saw that it’s in mugs in the strip, but I think the only time I’ve seen one in real life recently was in an airport (Houston?). When I wrote my post, I also hadn’t read yours (I think we were writing simultaneously).

I quit drinking 25 years ago after I lost a job, wife and family. Lost several others after that. Then I bought my own business and haven’t missed a day of work in 13 years. I guess some of us just aren’t capable of drinking and working for someone else!