Erik is at the Supermarket

Bill and Erik will be taking a break. I have a couple of things that I absolutely must focus on and then on top of that, a couple projects that need to get done before the end of the year. However, the comic strip will return with a healthy-sized Christmas comic before Christmas. I wrote the thing out already and it's huge so I have to edit a bit or spend my entire "break" working on it.

Moving on, I hope everyone had a nice Spanksgiving and gave much thanks and spanks. I, stupidly, went to a mall the day after Spanksgiving. I was in the car headed that direction when I realized:

1. Oh shit, it's the day after Thanksgiving, and

2. I hate malls

But for some reason, this mall was not crowded to an annoying degree. It's a mostly outside, open-air mall and it was kind of nice. I just went to pal along with my sister but I ended up finding three gifts. Plus, I had this exchange with the cashier at William-Sonoma.

Cashier: (After ringing me up) Would you like to make a donation to help the Children's (miracle health hospital something) fund?

Me: Oh lord no.

Cashier: (Completely frozen in terror. Does not know how to respond.)

Me: (Sensing that my joke was not well-received) Haha. Just kidding, I'll donate.

Cashier: Okay. How much would you like to donate?

Me: One dollar.

Also, in not-really related news, I found out something that I had wondered about at one point. And now I feel bad for knowing.