#33 – Small talk

I’m no good at small talk. “Hey nice weather we’re having.” That “I’m afraid of silence so I have to make the word sounds happen here because that’s what makes humans different from plants” kind of thing. I wonder how often the person next to me is just pretending to be checking his email or listening to music on headphones to avoid the inevitable plant conversation.

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16 thoughts on “#33 – Small talk”

  1. Barn0wl says:

    ROFL. Guess he got tired of the small talk. He does at least have the decency to look a little guilty …

  2. Belimoth says:

    I look forward to seeing more crafty sharks.

  3. Acies says:

    yay!! new comic for me to follow =D glad you decided to keep the little blurb under your comic… that’s my fave part about your comics =)

  4. Sean says:

    Now wait hold on.

    Does the shark hate folks from Westchester?

    If so that ain’t cool I got madd Westchester peepz.

    1. Chris says:

      He doesn’t hate them, they are delicious!

  5. Cyndaquazy says:

    …Done reading through the past 32 strips. Just as crafty as I would expect, coming from you.

  6. Schmordy says:

    Oh man, I have small talk trip-ups like that all the time. Most of the time I only just manage to say something logical to break the silence instead of just going for whatever random thing that pops into my head.

    Now I wish I was a shark…

  7. That shark is definitely the breakout star of this comic.

  8. tekaramity says:

    I follow this. I am absolutely no good at small talk either. I’ll take a rambling, disoriented discussion line concerning postal regulations any day over “what’s up / not much”…

  9. Mark S. says:

    Does it make one a sociopath to view all small talk as a necessary prerequisite to a fluid exchange? ‘Cause I feel like the shark kinda knocked a few steps out of the agenda. And yes, “unaccustomed to the norms of human interaction” shark is the breakout star.

  10. Zeke says:

    There are no words for how weird I thought this one was. Until I noticed the human was gone in the third panel.

  11. ElSelcho says:

    the innocent look on panel three, priceless 🙂

  12. Radical Edward says:

    I’m good at small talk, but there’s a catch. I eventually get talking about my life story along with the stranger’s life story. My father and grandmother do that a lot. They get the back story of their subject while trying to make small talk.

  13. B!S says:

    I like to think of it as the shark being freaked out that the woman just yanked off her hat, took a bite out of it, slapped the glasses over and took off running.

    1. Coyoty says:

      Yeah, what’s the deal with people eating their hats in this comic?

  14. Centaur71 says:

    Just one person; she won’t be missed…

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