WREN: So this is my - uh - oh shoot.
MOM: What’s the matter?
WREN: Well, this is my dorm room, but there’s - well - the sock on the door knob. It means my roommate is, um, busy.
MOM: Just tell her your mother’s here and wants to meet her. I’m sure she’s not too busy to say hello.
WREN: Mom, I can’t - it’s like, a do not disturb sign. I can’t go in.
MOM: Nonsense! I’ll go in and explain.
WREN: Mom, you don’t understand. My roommate Sam, she’s... she’s, uh... she’s a pagan!
MOM: What?
WREN: Yes. She’s probably doing some, pagany, ritual, uh, witch-type stuff. And disturbing her would be a BAD idea.
MOM: Oh. Nevermind. It’s good that you’re not getting mixed up in it.
Aw c’mon, mom wasn’t born yesterday! Supet-religious or not, she’d figure out what ‘do not disturb’ really means in a college dorm! (‘Mothers = clueless’ is my pet peve, sorry! /o\)
Dang, I’m sorry to the people who are upset about this one. Putting Wren into awkward situations is sort of my go-to for comedy. I thought of this one (and the last) as being about Wren’s mom assuming the best about everyone (except Wren), but I can totally understand that it just reads as Wren’s mom is dumb. Sorry.
I laughed at “pagany ritual,” hehe. I suppose that’s one way of describing what Sam might be up to. 😛
FWIW I’m not reading Wren’s mom as dumb, but I really have met parents that clueless. Clueless =/= dumb. I think some parents either really are that separated from their kids’ world or they just tune out anything they’d prefer to ignore.
Love it.
Aw c’mon, mom wasn’t born yesterday! Supet-religious or not, she’d figure out what ‘do not disturb’ really means in a college dorm! (‘Mothers = clueless’ is my pet peve, sorry! /o\)
MOMS ARE SO DUMB.
Haha, clever Sam!
Dang, I’m sorry to the people who are upset about this one. Putting Wren into awkward situations is sort of my go-to for comedy. I thought of this one (and the last) as being about Wren’s mom assuming the best about everyone (except Wren), but I can totally understand that it just reads as Wren’s mom is dumb. Sorry.
I laughed at “pagany ritual,” hehe. I suppose that’s one way of describing what Sam might be up to. 😛
FWIW I’m not reading Wren’s mom as dumb, but I really have met parents that clueless. Clueless =/= dumb. I think some parents either really are that separated from their kids’ world or they just tune out anything they’d prefer to ignore.
I read it not as ‘Wren’s mother is dumb’ but as ‘Wren’s mother deliberately self-censors to the degree that she can’t perceive the world accurately.’
Your comics make me so incredibly happy, I’m so pleased your updating again!!!
I love the colors of the sock. 🙂
I agree with Vass. My parents do that all the time.
Also, so SO happy you’re back, and things are going better for you! 🙂
Lol xD
…actually this almost happened to me with some mormon missionaries a couple days ago >.<