Comments on: 12/11/2018

By: Jeffrey Nonken

Jeffrey Nonken — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:59:01 +0000

I spent a year in Fargo back in the ’70s (NDSU). The people there were friendly; it wasn’t considered particularly unusual to stop and strike up a conversation with some random stranger. For no particular reason. I did it a few times just to experiment, and I was never disappointed. (Heh heh, and me an introvert. It was a bit weird for me.) I can’t speak for now, or when this strip first went live, but I feel that Bruno would not likely have gotten this reaction had she tried it in Fargo.

Me, I grew up in a small semi-rural town in Southeastern Pennsylvania. (It’s OK, I’m from just outside Philadelphia). The culture shift wasn’t extreme. But can you imagine how the guy from New York City felt?

…Actually, a guy from NYC wrote an article in the school paper and described exactly that. At first his reaction was, “What do these people want from me?!” But after a couple months he got it… they didn’t actually want anything. Except to be friends, because they were genuinely friendly people.

And so on. Poor Bruno; you weren’t wrong to try, you just tried it in the wrong place.

By: ronald

ronald — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:00:07 +0000

“Brunoâ€™s desperation canâ€™t be this desperate, can it?”

Maybe she doesn’t want to trust to chance encounters any more. If she’s going to have new friends, she’s going to single them out of the crowd and handpick them herself.

By: Peter Rogan

Peter Rogan — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:05:53 +0000

See, this is why there are coffeehouses. And comedy clubs. And bars. And book clubs, sewing circles, walking clubs and the Masons. And gyms, for goodness’s sake. Bruno’s desperation can’t be this desperate, can it?

By: ronald

ronald — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:28:45 +0000

“Your parents didn’t enroll you in many group activities”

Her parents named her “Bruno.” I doubt that little girls named “Bruno” tend to fare well in group activities…

Of course, if she’s an adult Little Dee (which I of course know that she isn’t), that part of her childhood might explain quite a bit…