#33 – Small talk
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
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.
Tags: dating, shark
ROFL. Guess he got tired of the small talk. He does at least have the decency to look a little guilty …
I look forward to seeing more crafty sharks.
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 =)
Now wait hold on.
Does the shark hate folks from Westchester?
If so that ain’t cool I got madd Westchester peepz.
He doesn’t hate them, they are delicious!
…Done reading through the past 32 strips. Just as crafty as I would expect, coming from you.
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…
That shark is definitely the breakout star of this comic.
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”…
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.
There are no words for how weird I thought this one was. Until I noticed the human was gone in the third panel.
the innocent look on panel three, priceless 🙂
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.
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.
Yeah, what’s the deal with people eating their hats in this comic?
Just one person; she won’t be missed…