heck, Lucy was me putting food in the compost bucket after dark
(not allowed to anymore bc rat infestation)
I would say Lucy is a preview of January 21, but no way 45 knows those words
also, my mom gave me a medium-large bag of airline earplugs ONCE many many years ago, and I haven’t used half of them up yet despite having to wear them nightly bc snoring husband, earplugs are a good investment
I recommend Mack’s Pillowsoft earplugs. They’re soft for sleeping, and, with my tiny earholes, I can tear them in half and get 24 in a box instead of 12.
Needfuldoer
I like the red and yellow Howard Leight ones. Don’t need them for sleeping, but they’re great for when I use power tools. (I even use them with the vacuum because it makes a grating, high-pitched whine when it runs. My server room tinnitus doesn’t need any more help!)
Jeremy Betts
You should look into Flare Audio’s ear pieces, they’re just cheap “earplugs” with a hole in the middle. Doesn’t block sound, but it takes the harsh edge off higher tones. My fiance swears by them now. The Calmer model. Cheap too!
If he wakes you up with snoring, a good trick is to lift the side of his pillow to roll his head. Due to the misalignment he will shift his body around on his own to follow suit, and now his pallet won’t flap on the back of his throat. Snoring stops. voila.
Does this mean sleeping on your side prevents snoring, and back sleepers snore? (I’ve always slept on my side, for as long as I can remember, except when sick)
YakkoRex
It’s a tendency, not a rule. Personally I can snore in all positions, including sleeping on my stomach.
Rex Vivat
I sleep on my side or face down. Whenever I fall sleep on my back, my own snoring wakes me up in under 5 minutes.
Chris
I can attest and I mean this in a completely non-sexual way… my wife on her side is heaven, on her back she can wake the dead. It’s actually kind of funny, over a 5 minute period she gets progressively louder until she wakes herself up enough to cause her to roll her head on her own.
I still use the same pair of airline earplugs I got years ago when I went stateside. There’s a bird outside my window that thinks 4am is a perfectly reasonable time to start singing, so they’re very, very welcome.
Sorry, was sleeping through a blizzard (peak winds only 60mph) any ways. I have a wife…and 2 other bongoes* who are also my furry daughters. All three snore louder than I. I have seen all of them wake themselves they snored so loud. And don’t get me started on the farts…guys. Those gals are nastier than roomful of infantry after a month of field chow. And As Chris noted, ladies you ain’t got no propritary claim to being snore free. *we only had sons. So my 2 human sized livestock guardians bongoes are my daughters. That’s how it is, I’m old and don’t care.
Pants pockets in general aren’t as good for sticking your hands in as coat pockets anyway, and her top is visibly pocket-less.
Zaxares
Alternative #2 is sticking your hands under your armpits. Not as warm, but it can make the difference till you get back inside somewhere warm, especially if you have cold extremities like me.
I guess I feel slightly bad for women’s fashion now.
Morleuca
It’s one of the biggest sacrifices those of us who are trans women have to make…
Kali
On one hand, I’m very sad to lose all my pockets… Buuut, on the other my purse just big enough to cary a dice set and a d6 cube at the bottom of it, which my old pants couldn’t do without them popping open and spilling dice everywhere…
But now I don’t know what to do with my hands… still worth it.
faerystuff
Your hands are now for carrying WAY too many things. You have to practice fitting a phone, coffee, keys, and sunglasses in one hand while your purse hangs from your arm leaving your other hand free to paw through it for your wallet which you SWEAR you just saw.
Once you have mastered this, you will be a true Jedi or some such nonsense <3
Back in early March, Sams Club had leggings with pockets. LEGGINGS. with POCKETS.
I don’t much care for pants (skirts/casual dresses are far superior), but my wife was like BUY THEM NOW LOTS AS MANY IN MY SIZE AS YOU CAN. And I did. And now all of her leggings have pockets.
And that is the end of my story about one time women’s pants had actual pockets.
Walky had a revelation when he discovered that Dorothy’s were about 3” deep. Clearly he needed more ‘experience’ to find out how womens’ fashion is all about look, and not comfort.
Deanatay
Or convenience. Or utility – women apparently aren’t allowed ‘work clothes’.
Pockets actually originated as women’s clothing in the middle ages. They were hung from a belt under the outer clothing and accessed through slits in the skirt. Men carried purses because their fashion of the day (tunic and hose) had no room for pockets. Sewn-in pockets were common for farm women (i.e. most women) right up until the early 20th century. Once pockets became common for the working class missing or ostentatiously useless pockets were became a sign of wealth and privilege. So congratulations, your lack of pockets means you’re wealthy and privileged, at least compared to a 19th century farm wife.
Whenever my hubris makes a fool of me and I find myself in a cold, pocketless predicament I don’t hesitate to put my hands down my pants and walk around cradling my own butt. I don’t think anyone here needed to know this but I am sharing it regardless.
I can’t help but feeling that a fashion line of designer women’s jeans called “Pockets”… because they actually have real pockets… would be inexplicably successful.
… yes, inexplicably. I have no idea why it would work.
I know Lucy’s pain, I had to walk across Boston’s South Station in the dead of winter back in January and I figured that I didn’t need my gloves… I was so wrong.
If Lucy had decided she needed gloves to cross the street, where would she have gotten them from. Apparently her error was in leaving her own dorm without them.
In other news, if we’re following Lucy home then we might find out who her current roommate is. Whether it’s Billie or Booster’s sister, new Billie.
Back in February of 1996, we had almost a full week in which the temperature never got above zero Fahrenheit… average was around 15 – 20 below zero.
So I drove down to Perry IA and went out for a bicycle ride (an annual event they have the first Saturday in February) … because it was too cold to do much of anything else.
I only break the gloves out when I have to handle snow (cleaning the car off, etc.) Cold air isn’t too bothersome, until you try to use your phone and your thumbs feel like they’re moving in slow motion.
I spent a winter in upstate New York once. Ballston Spa if anybody knows where that it.
DAYUM THAT’S COLD!!
There was one week where -10F was the High temperature.
“Luxury.” I attended an obscure NY college north of the Adirondacks, where we enjoyed a week of mornings that were at least twenty below.
Morleuca
Wouldn’t happen to be one that once appeared in Playboy’s top party colleges list, would it? Where some of the decisive battles of the War of 1812 were fought?
Ryek Hvek
Same weather belt, but would have appeared on that party college list for different reasons, summarized by Playboy in terms of “we aren’t going to talk about them – they’re professionals.”
Hubris is declaring you’ll fight the election results after spending all the campaign money and pissing off the lawyers and banks. Particularly Deutsche Bank
My first job was taking bagged groceries out to peoples’ cars. In January, in Northern Ohio.
I actually got tipped gloves more than once. For some reason multiple people just had boxes of bagged pairs gloves in their cars, and decided to share with the frostbitten teenager.
She does though – she listens to Joyce, provides her with a sounding board, doesn’t tell Becky what it is that Joyce is getting stressed about… She doesn’t get WHY it’s such a big, scary thing for Joyce to accept, but she accepts that it is, and is helping her try to come to terms with it. So in day to day life, she’s a sounding board, font of advice, and trustworthy person who may snark at Joyce but doesn’t make her feel judged.
I dunno, maybe I feel a bit defensive because my friends come to me for love, sympathy and advice with a side of snark? In different ways yes – I don’t grumble about them wanting to talk to me* – but I was also voted “least likely to be de-friended” in a poll on LiveJournal across a large group of friends from an online forum, many many moons ago…
*I mean I say this but my best friend came to live with us for a while when she was trying to get her life sorted and one of the things we discussed ahead of time was how we’d deal with the whole introvert need for solitude thing. Since then I have made 3 people who don’t really get why I don’t want them coming in to chat to me when I’m on the loo/in the shower (well, the smallest is too small to come in or use words but sometimes sits in his bouncer keeping me company because then he’s happy but if I’m out of sight not so much).
130 thoughts on “Confide”
Ana Chronistic
heck, Lucy was me putting food in the compost bucket after dark
(not allowed to anymore bc rat infestation)
I would say Lucy is a preview of January 21, but no way 45 knows those words
also, my mom gave me a medium-large bag of airline earplugs ONCE many many years ago, and I haven’t used half of them up yet despite having to wear them nightly bc snoring husband, earplugs are a good investment
Leorale
Earplugs save so many roommate and significant-other relationships, they are a force of Good.
BarerMender
I recommend Mack’s Pillowsoft earplugs. They’re soft for sleeping, and, with my tiny earholes, I can tear them in half and get 24 in a box instead of 12.
Needfuldoer
I like the red and yellow Howard Leight ones. Don’t need them for sleeping, but they’re great for when I use power tools. (I even use them with the vacuum because it makes a grating, high-pitched whine when it runs. My server room tinnitus doesn’t need any more help!)
Jeremy Betts
You should look into Flare Audio’s ear pieces, they’re just cheap “earplugs” with a hole in the middle. Doesn’t block sound, but it takes the harsh edge off higher tones. My fiance swears by them now. The Calmer model. Cheap too!
Demoted Oblivious
If he wakes you up with snoring, a good trick is to lift the side of his pillow to roll his head. Due to the misalignment he will shift his body around on his own to follow suit, and now his pallet won’t flap on the back of his throat. Snoring stops. voila.
Leorale
Doesn’t always work! But it’s nice when it does.
Cholma
Does this mean sleeping on your side prevents snoring, and back sleepers snore? (I’ve always slept on my side, for as long as I can remember, except when sick)
YakkoRex
It’s a tendency, not a rule. Personally I can snore in all positions, including sleeping on my stomach.
Rex Vivat
I sleep on my side or face down. Whenever I fall sleep on my back, my own snoring wakes me up in under 5 minutes.
Chris
I can attest and I mean this in a completely non-sexual way… my wife on her side is heaven, on her back she can wake the dead. It’s actually kind of funny, over a 5 minute period she gets progressively louder until she wakes herself up enough to cause her to roll her head on her own.
Ana Chronistic
mine gurgles, too, tho
back/side/stomach, doesn’t make too much a difference =/
Rex Vivat
I still use the same pair of airline earplugs I got years ago when I went stateside.
Rex Vivat
I still use the same pair of airline earplugs I got years ago when I went stateside. There’s a bird outside my window that thinks 4am is a perfectly reasonable time to start singing, so they’re very, very welcome.
Deanatay
If the bird’s a nightingale, doesn’t sound so bad.
If it’s a crow, I pity you.
Keith
Sorry, was sleeping through a blizzard (peak winds only 60mph) any ways. I have a wife…and 2 other bongoes* who are also my furry daughters. All three snore louder than I. I have seen all of them wake themselves they snored so loud. And don’t get me started on the farts…guys. Those gals are nastier than roomful of infantry after a month of field chow. And As Chris noted, ladies you ain’t got no propritary claim to being snore free. *we only had sons. So my 2 human sized livestock guardians bongoes are my daughters. That’s how it is, I’m old and don’t care.
Sirksome
Does uh…Does she not have pockets?
Doctor_Who
Lotta pants for girls don’t.
Cattleprod
Pants pockets in general aren’t as good for sticking your hands in as coat pockets anyway, and her top is visibly pocket-less.
Zaxares
Alternative #2 is sticking your hands under your armpits. Not as warm, but it can make the difference till you get back inside somewhere warm, especially if you have cold extremities like me.
Sirksome
I guess I feel slightly bad for women’s fashion now.
Morleuca
It’s one of the biggest sacrifices those of us who are trans women have to make…
Kali
On one hand, I’m very sad to lose all my pockets… Buuut, on the other my purse just big enough to cary a dice set and a d6 cube at the bottom of it, which my old pants couldn’t do without them popping open and spilling dice everywhere…
But now I don’t know what to do with my hands… still worth it.
faerystuff
Your hands are now for carrying WAY too many things. You have to practice fitting a phone, coffee, keys, and sunglasses in one hand while your purse hangs from your arm leaving your other hand free to paw through it for your wallet which you SWEAR you just saw.
Once you have mastered this, you will be a true Jedi or some such nonsense <3
Dunedon
Girl clothing … With pockets? What universe do you come from where this is a thing? 🙂
He Who Abides
And that’s why Mrs. Abides owns several pairs of overalls.
Okay, it’s also because she finds jeans and trousers uncomfortably tight. And she’s ridiculously hot in them. But the pockets thing, too.
BarerMender
When I first read that, I thought, “Who is Mrs. AB-a-deez?”
Usarnavon
Mrs. Ab-a-DEEZ OVERALLS LOL GOT’EM
Delicious Taffy
Did you mean she’s hot (temperature) in trousers, or she’s hot (attractive) in overalls? There was a bit of ambiguity in your phrasing.
He Who Abides
Attractive.
Rose by Any Other Name
Back in early March, Sams Club had leggings with pockets. LEGGINGS. with POCKETS.
I don’t much care for pants (skirts/casual dresses are far superior), but my wife was like BUY THEM NOW LOTS AS MANY IN MY SIZE AS YOU CAN. And I did. And now all of her leggings have pockets.
And that is the end of my story about one time women’s pants had actual pockets.
Geneseepaws
Walky had a revelation when he discovered that Dorothy’s were about 3” deep. Clearly he needed more ‘experience’ to find out how womens’ fashion is all about look, and not comfort.
Deanatay
Or convenience. Or utility – women apparently aren’t allowed ‘work clothes’.
Pilgrim
Pockets actually originated as women’s clothing in the middle ages. They were hung from a belt under the outer clothing and accessed through slits in the skirt. Men carried purses because their fashion of the day (tunic and hose) had no room for pockets. Sewn-in pockets were common for farm women (i.e. most women) right up until the early 20th century. Once pockets became common for the working class missing or ostentatiously useless pockets were became a sign of wealth and privilege. So congratulations, your lack of pockets means you’re wealthy and privileged, at least compared to a 19th century farm wife.
Demoted Oblivious
Did you just hear your question / have you ever seen *useful* pockets in womens fashion?
FaerwenOfValenwood
Whenever my hubris makes a fool of me and I find myself in a cold, pocketless predicament I don’t hesitate to put my hands down my pants and walk around cradling my own butt. I don’t think anyone here needed to know this but I am sharing it regardless.
clif
And we thank you for that mental image.
Ryek Hvek
maybe this explains Rudy Giuliani
Willoughby Chase
You’re a bloke, right?
Sirksome
Yeh.
Reltzik
I can’t help but feeling that a fashion line of designer women’s jeans called “Pockets”… because they actually have real pockets… would be inexplicably successful.
… yes, inexplicably. I have no idea why it would work.
BlackScarabFilmZ
I know Lucy’s pain, I had to walk across Boston’s South Station in the dead of winter back in January and I figured that I didn’t need my gloves… I was so wrong.
FaerwenOfValenwood
OOF. Windy winter days in Boston are brutal. Well I guess I can leave the “windy” qualifier out because when isn’t it windy in Boston
clif
If Lucy had decided she needed gloves to cross the street, where would she have gotten them from. Apparently her error was in leaving her own dorm without them.
In other news, if we’re following Lucy home then we might find out who her current roommate is. Whether it’s Billie or Booster’s sister, new Billie.
RowenMorland
Maybe it is Billie but she’s dating Booster’s twin sister now.
Deanatay
YESS!! Mush, Lucy! Take us to Billie!! Mush, MUSH!!
Bicycle Bill
Back in February of 1996, we had almost a full week in which the temperature never got above zero Fahrenheit… average was around 15 – 20 below zero.
So I drove down to Perry IA and went out for a bicycle ride (an annual event they have the first Saturday in February) … because it was too cold to do much of anything else.
Needfuldoer
Wicked sea breeze around there sometimes.
I only break the gloves out when I have to handle snow (cleaning the car off, etc.) Cold air isn’t too bothersome, until you try to use your phone and your thumbs feel like they’re moving in slow motion.
Chris
At any temperature where gloves are necessary to cross the street, I don’t think I’d be willing to run like that in the dark.
brionl
I spent a winter in upstate New York once. Ballston Spa if anybody knows where that it.
DAYUM THAT’S COLD!!
There was one week where -10F was the High temperature.
woobie
RO, EO, or MO/ ELT?
Ryek Hvek
“Luxury.” I attended an obscure NY college north of the Adirondacks, where we enjoyed a week of mornings that were at least twenty below.
Morleuca
Wouldn’t happen to be one that once appeared in Playboy’s top party colleges list, would it? Where some of the decisive battles of the War of 1812 were fought?
Ryek Hvek
Same weather belt, but would have appeared on that party college list for different reasons, summarized by Playboy in terms of “we aren’t going to talk about them – they’re professionals.”
Reltzik
Well if it makes you feel safer, at least the conditions are perfect for black ice.
Cattleprod
This feels like meta commentary on whether characters need to be drawn in winter gear all the time.
Ray Radlein
YOU HAVE FLOWN TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN, LUCY
THE COLD, COLD, SUN
Emperor Norton II
“Our hubris makes fools of us all” is an excellent commentary to the whole Four Seasons fiasco, isn’t it?
Willoughby Chase
Hubris is declaring you’ll fight the election results after spending all the campaign money and pissing off the lawyers and banks. Particularly Deutsche Bank
King Monster
Big Ooof.
Doctor_Who
My first job was taking bagged groceries out to peoples’ cars. In January, in Northern Ohio.
I actually got tipped gloves more than once. For some reason multiple people just had boxes of bagged pairs gloves in their cars, and decided to share with the frostbitten teenager.
Jess
Oh hey, I’m from Wayne County! Yup, sure does get cold up there some winters.
Willoughby Chase
Please don’t drop your earplugs on
railway tracks
Can Joyce get laid yet? Or at least find a private washing machine?
Icalasari
Next Book Title: Hubris Makes Fools Of Us All
Spencer
I know Sarah actually cares but at some point she’s gonna say enough horrible shit about people she loves that they’ll start to believe she means it.
You can’t just prove to your loved ones that they mean something to you through big dramatic actions. You gotta do little things too.
Miri
She does though – she listens to Joyce, provides her with a sounding board, doesn’t tell Becky what it is that Joyce is getting stressed about… She doesn’t get WHY it’s such a big, scary thing for Joyce to accept, but she accepts that it is, and is helping her try to come to terms with it. So in day to day life, she’s a sounding board, font of advice, and trustworthy person who may snark at Joyce but doesn’t make her feel judged.
I dunno, maybe I feel a bit defensive because my friends come to me for love, sympathy and advice with a side of snark? In different ways yes – I don’t grumble about them wanting to talk to me* – but I was also voted “least likely to be de-friended” in a poll on LiveJournal across a large group of friends from an online forum, many many moons ago…
*I mean I say this but my best friend came to live with us for a while when she was trying to get her life sorted and one of the things we discussed ahead of time was how we’d deal with the whole introvert need for solitude thing. Since then I have made 3 people who don’t really get why I don’t want them coming in to chat to me when I’m on the loo/in the shower (well, the smallest is too small to come in or use words but sometimes sits in his bouncer keeping me company because then he’s happy but if I’m out of sight not so much).
BBCC
These are your consequences for buying women’s pants with girl pockets, Lucy.
Rookie mistake for winter where I live.
Sunny Bruv
I’m kind of hung up on the fact that Lucy’s speech text is blue, or rather anything other than black. Has Willis used different colors before?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
That is ghost voice, she died from slipping on black ice just past the steps.
Emperor Norton II
And now, as per the trope, she’s stuck in her body as it died, clothes and all, forever doomed to wear pocketless pants.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
The real reason to wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident.