How to Recover From a Mistake
Added 2024-03-04 08:00:01 +0000 UTCThis strip is based, loosely, on an actual event. I impulse-purchased a bag of what I thought were mixed nuts. That might be the only way anyone ever buys a bag of mixed nuts. I doubt many people ever make a special trip to the store just because they’re running low on mixed nuts. You never hear anybody complain that they’re out of mixed nuts, or go to the neighbor to borrow a cup of mixed nuts. Then again, nobody really goes to the neighbors to borrow food anymore, do they? Did they ever? I suspect that, when I was a kid, if some neighbor of ours had shown up at the door asking for flour, my Dad would have given them a cup of plaster.
I digress.
I glanced at the bag and figured it was a nut mix that was heavy on the peanuts. Or maybe it didn’t have peanuts. I didn’t know. I saw the word mixed, and a picture of nuts, and I figured I was good. Then I got home and opened my bag of “Mixed Peanuts.”
I’ve attached a picture of the package. I think you can see why, if someone was in a hurry, and was easily distracted to begin with, they might be confused.
Anyway, I tweaked the situation a bit in the comic to make it more relatable, easier to understand, and to allow me to use the phrase “butter gunk” twice.
