Linda, of course, assumes Marcie the Hispanic girl who wants to be a cop is the bad influence versus the white boys who have led Sal into a life of crime. Funny fact, in Yonkers after it was forcibly desegragted–as depicted in HBO’s Show me a Hero– a spike of crime occurred with young white kids dragging black kids into drugs as well as violence. The families hadn’t expected the affluent Caucasians to be dangerous and didn’t have the pull to get their kids out of problems like their families did.
Linda, of course, probably thought Sal was the bad influence on them after this.
I hate this. Always this.
I hate how much I hear about it in America compared to here in Australia.
Cos I know it happens. but idk, smaller population, less internet mass, easier to shhhh.
Same in the UK, we’ll hear about the US and be like “At least we’re not that bad… right?”
Lin
When I lived in the UK, some English (and yes, I specifically mean English) white dudes just LOVED to tell me how much they didn’t have racism in the UK and how they were so glad they were better than the U.S. When I had the energy, I would tell them that their friends of color in the UK just weren’t telling them anything and that might be because they’re part of the problem.
Sazazezer
White guy in the UK here, and this is frustratingly spot on. I have not seen overt white on black racism of any kind since secondary/high school. Even then, it felt insanely minor. There would be positive discrimination with one African kid (everyone saw his as awesome, even if they didn’t know him) and that was it. It honestly has the feel that we are a country without racism.
The sad truth about this though is that we have some kind of weird filter that causes us not to treat prejudice against Muslims as ‘not counting’. Again though, this isn’t massively overt prejudice except the stuff that shows up in the news. Most of it is groups in pubs joking quietly to themselves. There’s also a lot of discrimination against eastern Europeans, the classic ‘here to steal our jobs’ crap. People seem to think that if no one’s screaming the n word at a black man then there can’t be any racism, or if there is it’s so minor and covert that it’s not really raising a fuss about.
nothri
I was reading up on Jewish immigration to the Japanese Empire during WW2. There was an incident in a jewish ghetto in Shanghai involving a visiting SS officer trying to convince the Japanese general controlling the city to hand over the Jews living there. The Jewish leaders visited the Japanese general and pleaded their case, at the end of which the general asked why the Germans hated them so much.
Keep in mind, this is the same empire who famously slaughtered the chinese by the millions, injected them with disease, vivisected and experimented on them, deliberately smuggled opium into products like cigarettes to foster addiction and thus impair Chinese ability to mobilize a resistance, etc, etc. Racism lives everywhere. But its a form of fear and projection- the weakest things you perceive about your town or your state or your country all get piled on the group you hate, and often tale spun of so-so factuality and sanity to justify your projections. So WHO gets hated can depend as much on the underlying darkness and anxiety and history of where you are. But its always a safe bet to assume that some small group among the many is loathed and pushed aside for one stupid justification or another. Cause, god help us all, that’s what humans do when they fail to be self-aware.
Mind you, that might have just accelerated it. Sal has always been anti-authoritarian (can’t imagine why) with the medical situation in America a real monster much bigger than one rich liberal racist white woman. Sal would do anything for Marcie and the desperation was always there.
Even if Sal knew the game, she wouldn’t have been able to get a $65k charge down to an amount where that $700 would have made a difference. Linda just accelerated this.
BBCC
That $700 was almost half the ambulance ride. Even if it couldn’t cover full medical costs and surgery, it wasn’t nothing.
Alanari
Inreresting enough that she’s allowed to do that. Legally I mean. In my country, kids aren’t allowed to spend so much money without parental permission.
BBCC
She’s not actually allowed to set up a gofundme. You have to be 18. Of course, it’s probably not LITERALLY gofundme, but even so.
Alanari
No, I mean, here, a child isn’t allowed to spend that much money. At all. Except when parents allow it. It’s called the pocket money paragraph. Basically, children are allowed to spend amounts of money that are in pocket money range. Everything above that needs parental permission.
CJ
Isn’t it just so that parents can nullify contracts for more money (because minors don’t know what they are doing), so usually parental consent is sought?
Alanari
No, our law says that the contract is nullified by default if it’s too much money unless the parents agree. Your parents can decide afterwards to agree to the contract by not enforcing the nullification and giving consent but generally, you better make sure beforehand that the parents agree if you want to make a contract with a minor. Also, minors generally are forbidden to spend your money if your parents forbid it.
Basically, this whole thing would be impossible in my country. But on the other hand, since our health system is a whole lot less broken, nothing of this would have been that bad in the first place..
Dimb
To my understanding, in US a child (under 18 years of age) is not able to legally enter ANY contract of any monetary value – or, rather, cannot be held responsible of ANY contract they might have managed to enter (unless the parent agrees, or the person, after turning 18, agrees to be bound by that contract).
In my own country a child can legally use the money they have earned themselves (doing chores, delivering advertisements, raking leaves etc).
In any case, not everyone asks. If a minor comes to a shop wanting to buy a top notch computer AND shows the money, not everyone asks the right questions. Same should be the thing here .. if Sal’s ready to rob gas stations, she won’t be troubled by the rule of not “minors not being allowed to” pay off bills that need paying off.
thejeff
Except Sal wouldn’t be spending the money. She’d be giving it to the Diaz’s to cover the existing medical bills and eventually the surgery itself.
Any actual contract would be between the hospital and the Diaz’s, not Sal.
Sye
I mean, with fairness, we’re not allowed to rob convenience stores in the United States, either, yet here we are.
Leorale
Sal totally would’ve just given Marcie’s family a pile of cash in a shoebox. The hospital wouldn’t know where Marcie’s family got the cash.
BarerMender
When I was stabbed in New York, I got a bill from an ambulance company for $400. When did it go up so high? (I was gonna send the bill to my insurance company, but then I got another from another ambulance company, so I threw them both in the trash.)
Delicious Taffy
The trash is where medical bills belong.
Jam Jar
It’s $98 where I live and free if it was because of an accident (paid by ACC).
ruhrow
It was $900 where I went to college…for a few miles’ ride and a poorly-placed IV.
BBCC
Depends on the area, the hospital and the ambulance company.
3oranges
$700 with the possibility of more to come. Plainly not enough more. But maybe Sal could have ended up knowing she had done all she could in the face of unfair system, and maybe helping Marcie in some smaller way, without feeling the need to break the law. If she also had some real parental guidance, who could say?
Showing her that working within the rules means accomplishing exactly nothing, on the other hand, made this inevitable.
Julez
I stand by the statement that if Linda had gone the other way, had actively helped Sal with the fundraising by networking with her connections (Anthony) they may have been able to get a good deal closer to paying off the whole thing. But no, she had to be racist garbage.
She’d already met up with Asher. She was already staying out suspiciously late at night. She had what seems like a lot of cash for a 13 year old.
Was she already doing this before Linda took her money?
BBCC
No. Sal’s said before she’s only robbed two stores and we’ve now seen both of them.
Someone's Ed
I dunno, I would have managed to save up about $850 by the time I was 13, through the simple acts of not spending any of my own money and doing every apparently legal odd job that came my way, if my parents and more disingenuous brother had not whittled the money down by stealing from me on frequent occasion. By the time I was 14, I would’ve saved up another $900, and actually managed to save $500… mostly by virtue of splitting the money between a few dozen places.
Thinking about Sal’s situation more, it probably would’ve worked out better had she been giving the money to Marcie for safe keeping, or maybe even keeping Marcie’s parent(s) in the loop on the Marcie surgery fund – who knows, maybe with their powers combined, they would’ve been able to at least fund enough of it to either cover the insurance copay or take out a loan to cover the shortfall.
thejeff
She apparently did give some of it to Marcie – in the earlier scene in the hospital. “Here’s all of my allowance. I’ll get more.” doesn’t really impy “I’ve already got a few hundred stashed.”
Theoretically she could have, but she didn’t have any known reason to save up before now. I suppose she could have been accumulating it since, though that sounds like a lot for a 12-13 year old in a few months. You’re right that it would have worked out better to pass it off to Marcie or her parents.
Still, BBCC’s right. She said earlier that it was 2 robberies and this really does read like her first time involved.
Catman
It’s definitely the first, we’ve seen the second
TemperaryObsessor
Sorry that happened to you. It sounds bad enough to have your brother steal from you but your parents steeling from you sounds horrible.
All of the above yes, up until event recently america has…had a very clear we’ve moved past racism and etc. mind set among certain circles who believed and peddled the idea that we’ve grown out of “that” phase and are better then that. Fast forward to now and it’s quite clear that band-aid has been ripped off hard.
Mind you, Linda stole money from a children’s charity. She seems to be like Walky in that she doesn’t realize Go Fund Me isn’t a direct donation into their pocket. It’s a contract that the money would go into Marcie’s surgery fund.
Oh absolutely. I assume Linda put it in the family fund and used it to buy herself a pedicure. After all, it’s not like the money wasn’t Sal’s and thus hers as her guardian.
Although, according to gofundme’s website, Sal’s too young to organize a campaign. You have to be 18. So it seems like she lied about her age, bare minimum. Although I would think the money would be wired to go to the Diazes, since it doesn’t sound like Sal has a bank account since she was keeping the money in the box. And regardless, as carms said, the money doesn’t come in actual bills, it’s in bank transfers as far as I can tell.
not someone else
It’s possible the Diazes were set up as the actual owners or whatever and Sal was just helping/had the idea/whatever. We don’t know yet what Marcie’s parents think about any of this.
BBCC
That’s true, although in that case, I don’t know why Walky would ask if Sal got to keep the donated money.
I want to see Malaya meet Linda. Oh, how I want to see Malaya meet Linda.
Sure, we got her and Mrs. Bean way back, but if Malaya’s half as good at reading people as she thinks she is she’ll ping in a second that any affectation Sal has is from growing up under the thumb of this bongo, and she genuinely likes Marcie. I am absolutely in favor of Malaya using her dismissive, argumentative powers for good. And we know Linda would hate her instantly, she’s brown and refuses to take anyone’s shit quietly. GLORIOUS.
I think the bigger deal with Carla is that even if Linda sucks up to the supremely influential white girl, Carla won’t stand for Sal trying to contort herself for someone awful.
BBCC
Fun fact: In that fic I posted last night (back when Sal was actually going to go to dinner), I was seriously considering doing one of those 5 times something happened things with Carla being one of the ones Sal went to dinner with.
My way of brainstorming that went much like this.
Carla: If they’re dicks, I’m faking a headache.
Me: What? NO. Carla, come on, that’s not where this story is gonna go. We’re doing drama here. You’re meeting Sal’s parents.
Carla: Fine – if her parents are dicks, I’m faking a headache.
I agree with Willis. Carla’s a drama killer because she refuses to take any shit. It’s both admirable as a reader and INTENSELY frustrating as a writer. 😛
Regalli
Carla would last all of twenty minutes, tops, before remembering that Incredibly Important Thing she has to do.
*Cut to Carla’s checklist. I have to assume ‘Do whatever the hell you want, you motherfucking goddess’ is just the last thing on her list every day because it’s got to be hugely motivating.*
BBCC
Yeah, the Walkertons would barely be getting started before Carla has a very convenient migraine. 😛
Are we all not glad Sally is not associating with hoodlums such as Marcie, Linda? I am sure this is a much more preferable turn of events, Linda. Aren’t we happy, Linda?
She didn’t even seem to like Asher very much last strip.
Y’know, ’til she needed to get money for Marcie and piss off her parents.
Kris
There is a lingering question as to why Asher is associated with Sal at all. As you said Sal seems at minimum indifferent to this guy so why is she hanging with him besides maybe a screw you to Linda. Especially considering he owns the actual “bad influence” title Linda is so keen to pin on Marcie. Who are you Asher?! And why are you wearing shades at night like a tool!
Kris
…I just realized how ironic it would be if Linda introduced Sal to Asher as an alternative to hanging out with Marcie. Although maybe that’s too big a coincidence.
240 thoughts on “Lookout”
Ana Chronistic
“I need a candy bar”
Deanatay
“…and minutes for this new phone you gave me!”
Ana Chronistic
That phone’s pretty sharp
Br44n5m
Newest model, they don’t make em like they used to to
C.T Phipps
Linda, of course, assumes Marcie the Hispanic girl who wants to be a cop is the bad influence versus the white boys who have led Sal into a life of crime. Funny fact, in Yonkers after it was forcibly desegragted–as depicted in HBO’s Show me a Hero– a spike of crime occurred with young white kids dragging black kids into drugs as well as violence. The families hadn’t expected the affluent Caucasians to be dangerous and didn’t have the pull to get their kids out of problems like their families did.
Linda, of course, probably thought Sal was the bad influence on them after this.
carms
I hate this. Always this.
I hate how much I hear about it in America compared to here in Australia.
Cos I know it happens. but idk, smaller population, less internet mass, easier to shhhh.
wwwhhattt
Same in the UK, we’ll hear about the US and be like “At least we’re not that bad… right?”
Lin
When I lived in the UK, some English (and yes, I specifically mean English) white dudes just LOVED to tell me how much they didn’t have racism in the UK and how they were so glad they were better than the U.S. When I had the energy, I would tell them that their friends of color in the UK just weren’t telling them anything and that might be because they’re part of the problem.
Sazazezer
White guy in the UK here, and this is frustratingly spot on. I have not seen overt white on black racism of any kind since secondary/high school. Even then, it felt insanely minor. There would be positive discrimination with one African kid (everyone saw his as awesome, even if they didn’t know him) and that was it. It honestly has the feel that we are a country without racism.
The sad truth about this though is that we have some kind of weird filter that causes us not to treat prejudice against Muslims as ‘not counting’. Again though, this isn’t massively overt prejudice except the stuff that shows up in the news. Most of it is groups in pubs joking quietly to themselves. There’s also a lot of discrimination against eastern Europeans, the classic ‘here to steal our jobs’ crap. People seem to think that if no one’s screaming the n word at a black man then there can’t be any racism, or if there is it’s so minor and covert that it’s not really raising a fuss about.
nothri
I was reading up on Jewish immigration to the Japanese Empire during WW2. There was an incident in a jewish ghetto in Shanghai involving a visiting SS officer trying to convince the Japanese general controlling the city to hand over the Jews living there. The Jewish leaders visited the Japanese general and pleaded their case, at the end of which the general asked why the Germans hated them so much.
Keep in mind, this is the same empire who famously slaughtered the chinese by the millions, injected them with disease, vivisected and experimented on them, deliberately smuggled opium into products like cigarettes to foster addiction and thus impair Chinese ability to mobilize a resistance, etc, etc. Racism lives everywhere. But its a form of fear and projection- the weakest things you perceive about your town or your state or your country all get piled on the group you hate, and often tale spun of so-so factuality and sanity to justify your projections. So WHO gets hated can depend as much on the underlying darkness and anxiety and history of where you are. But its always a safe bet to assume that some small group among the many is loathed and pushed aside for one stupid justification or another. Cause, god help us all, that’s what humans do when they fail to be self-aware.
Dedlok
A life a crime she would have not fell into if she didn’t unjustly take away her shoebox money because of said bad influence assumptions.
C.T Phipps
Mind you, that might have just accelerated it. Sal has always been anti-authoritarian (can’t imagine why) with the medical situation in America a real monster much bigger than one rich liberal racist white woman. Sal would do anything for Marcie and the desperation was always there.
Raen
Even if Sal knew the game, she wouldn’t have been able to get a $65k charge down to an amount where that $700 would have made a difference. Linda just accelerated this.
BBCC
That $700 was almost half the ambulance ride. Even if it couldn’t cover full medical costs and surgery, it wasn’t nothing.
Alanari
Inreresting enough that she’s allowed to do that. Legally I mean. In my country, kids aren’t allowed to spend so much money without parental permission.
BBCC
She’s not actually allowed to set up a gofundme. You have to be 18. Of course, it’s probably not LITERALLY gofundme, but even so.
Alanari
No, I mean, here, a child isn’t allowed to spend that much money. At all. Except when parents allow it. It’s called the pocket money paragraph. Basically, children are allowed to spend amounts of money that are in pocket money range. Everything above that needs parental permission.
CJ
Isn’t it just so that parents can nullify contracts for more money (because minors don’t know what they are doing), so usually parental consent is sought?
Alanari
No, our law says that the contract is nullified by default if it’s too much money unless the parents agree. Your parents can decide afterwards to agree to the contract by not enforcing the nullification and giving consent but generally, you better make sure beforehand that the parents agree if you want to make a contract with a minor. Also, minors generally are forbidden to spend your money if your parents forbid it.
Basically, this whole thing would be impossible in my country. But on the other hand, since our health system is a whole lot less broken, nothing of this would have been that bad in the first place..
Dimb
To my understanding, in US a child (under 18 years of age) is not able to legally enter ANY contract of any monetary value – or, rather, cannot be held responsible of ANY contract they might have managed to enter (unless the parent agrees, or the person, after turning 18, agrees to be bound by that contract).
In my own country a child can legally use the money they have earned themselves (doing chores, delivering advertisements, raking leaves etc).
In any case, not everyone asks. If a minor comes to a shop wanting to buy a top notch computer AND shows the money, not everyone asks the right questions. Same should be the thing here .. if Sal’s ready to rob gas stations, she won’t be troubled by the rule of not “minors not being allowed to” pay off bills that need paying off.
thejeff
Except Sal wouldn’t be spending the money. She’d be giving it to the Diaz’s to cover the existing medical bills and eventually the surgery itself.
Any actual contract would be between the hospital and the Diaz’s, not Sal.
Sye
I mean, with fairness, we’re not allowed to rob convenience stores in the United States, either, yet here we are.
Leorale
Sal totally would’ve just given Marcie’s family a pile of cash in a shoebox. The hospital wouldn’t know where Marcie’s family got the cash.
BarerMender
When I was stabbed in New York, I got a bill from an ambulance company for $400. When did it go up so high? (I was gonna send the bill to my insurance company, but then I got another from another ambulance company, so I threw them both in the trash.)
Delicious Taffy
The trash is where medical bills belong.
Jam Jar
It’s $98 where I live and free if it was because of an accident (paid by ACC).
ruhrow
It was $900 where I went to college…for a few miles’ ride and a poorly-placed IV.
BBCC
Depends on the area, the hospital and the ambulance company.
3oranges
$700 with the possibility of more to come. Plainly not enough more. But maybe Sal could have ended up knowing she had done all she could in the face of unfair system, and maybe helping Marcie in some smaller way, without feeling the need to break the law. If she also had some real parental guidance, who could say?
Showing her that working within the rules means accomplishing exactly nothing, on the other hand, made this inevitable.
Julez
I stand by the statement that if Linda had gone the other way, had actively helped Sal with the fundraising by networking with her connections (Anthony) they may have been able to get a good deal closer to paying off the whole thing. But no, she had to be racist garbage.
thejeff
Is that true though?
She’d already met up with Asher. She was already staying out suspiciously late at night. She had what seems like a lot of cash for a 13 year old.
Was she already doing this before Linda took her money?
BBCC
No. Sal’s said before she’s only robbed two stores and we’ve now seen both of them.
Someone's Ed
I dunno, I would have managed to save up about $850 by the time I was 13, through the simple acts of not spending any of my own money and doing every apparently legal odd job that came my way, if my parents and more disingenuous brother had not whittled the money down by stealing from me on frequent occasion. By the time I was 14, I would’ve saved up another $900, and actually managed to save $500… mostly by virtue of splitting the money between a few dozen places.
Thinking about Sal’s situation more, it probably would’ve worked out better had she been giving the money to Marcie for safe keeping, or maybe even keeping Marcie’s parent(s) in the loop on the Marcie surgery fund – who knows, maybe with their powers combined, they would’ve been able to at least fund enough of it to either cover the insurance copay or take out a loan to cover the shortfall.
thejeff
She apparently did give some of it to Marcie – in the earlier scene in the hospital. “Here’s all of my allowance. I’ll get more.” doesn’t really impy “I’ve already got a few hundred stashed.”
Theoretically she could have, but she didn’t have any known reason to save up before now. I suppose she could have been accumulating it since, though that sounds like a lot for a 12-13 year old in a few months. You’re right that it would have worked out better to pass it off to Marcie or her parents.
Still, BBCC’s right. She said earlier that it was 2 robberies and this really does read like her first time involved.
Catman
It’s definitely the first, we’ve seen the second
TemperaryObsessor
Sorry that happened to you. It sounds bad enough to have your brother steal from you but your parents steeling from you sounds horrible.
Zathras10
Looked up Show Me a Hero, and okay, now I gotta binge that whole thing soon.
Abbefaria
All of the above yes, up until event recently america has…had a very clear we’ve moved past racism and etc. mind set among certain circles who believed and peddled the idea that we’ve grown out of “that” phase and are better then that. Fast forward to now and it’s quite clear that band-aid has been ripped off hard.
lilyliv
Look what you did, Linda. This is your fault.
butts
tomorrow, cut to walky snoring
Doctor_Who
With a bag of cookies.
Bagge
Of course she got him cookies.
Bagge
Bought with Sal’s shoebox money, of course.
Tacos
In the bathtub. Naked.
Stephen Bierce
She came all the way from America
On a Blind Date With Destiny–“Mean To Me” by Crowded House
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
… and it looks like she’s ordered the lobster. – The Shoveler
Keulen
*Plays several covers of “I Fought the Law” on the hacked muzak*
C.T Phipps
Mind you, Linda stole money from a children’s charity. She seems to be like Walky in that she doesn’t realize Go Fund Me isn’t a direct donation into their pocket. It’s a contract that the money would go into Marcie’s surgery fund.
Bagge
To be fair, that child was a hoodlum.
That makes taking the money right. Right?
C.T Phipps
Oh absolutely. I assume Linda put it in the family fund and used it to buy herself a pedicure. After all, it’s not like the money wasn’t Sal’s and thus hers as her guardian.
Bagge
And a mother-of-the-year T-shirt
Bagge
RIGHT, LINDA?
carms
the gofundme was definitely not the same as the shoebox- gofundme is digital money, no-one’s sending physical bills. That was Sal’s own money
BBCC
It was still earmarked for Marcie, but I suspect you’re right and that was whatever Sal’s been scraping together since the accident.
C.T Phipps
I assume the Go Fund Me failed but she got the 250.
BBCC
Gofundme’s don’t have a time limit. They can go on until the organizer removes the campaign or turn off donations.
Source: Gofundme’s FAQ. https://www.gofundme.com/questions
Although, according to gofundme’s website, Sal’s too young to organize a campaign. You have to be 18. So it seems like she lied about her age, bare minimum. Although I would think the money would be wired to go to the Diazes, since it doesn’t sound like Sal has a bank account since she was keeping the money in the box. And regardless, as carms said, the money doesn’t come in actual bills, it’s in bank transfers as far as I can tell.
not someone else
It’s possible the Diazes were set up as the actual owners or whatever and Sal was just helping/had the idea/whatever. We don’t know yet what Marcie’s parents think about any of this.
BBCC
That’s true, although in that case, I don’t know why Walky would ask if Sal got to keep the donated money.
Rartorata
Feel like that’s just Walky being Walky right there. Annoying and not really thinking it through.
Dana
Could be worse. She could be hanging out with Marcie.
Bagge
Right. And just to think – this very moment Sal could have used hard earned savings to help a injured child. This is much better.
ISN’T IT, LINDA?
C.T Phipps
I wonder if Linda would hate Sal’s current group. Would her (probable) transphobia outweigh the fact Carla is stupid rich?
Regalli
I want to see Malaya meet Linda. Oh, how I want to see Malaya meet Linda.
Sure, we got her and Mrs. Bean way back, but if Malaya’s half as good at reading people as she thinks she is she’ll ping in a second that any affectation Sal has is from growing up under the thumb of this bongo, and she genuinely likes Marcie. I am absolutely in favor of Malaya using her dismissive, argumentative powers for good. And we know Linda would hate her instantly, she’s brown and refuses to take anyone’s shit quietly. GLORIOUS.
I think the bigger deal with Carla is that even if Linda sucks up to the supremely influential white girl, Carla won’t stand for Sal trying to contort herself for someone awful.
BBCC
Fun fact: In that fic I posted last night (back when Sal was actually going to go to dinner), I was seriously considering doing one of those 5 times something happened things with Carla being one of the ones Sal went to dinner with.
My way of brainstorming that went much like this.
Carla: If they’re dicks, I’m faking a headache.
Me: What? NO. Carla, come on, that’s not where this story is gonna go. We’re doing drama here. You’re meeting Sal’s parents.
Carla: Fine – if her parents are dicks, I’m faking a headache.
I agree with Willis. Carla’s a drama killer because she refuses to take any shit. It’s both admirable as a reader and INTENSELY frustrating as a writer. 😛
Regalli
Carla would last all of twenty minutes, tops, before remembering that Incredibly Important Thing she has to do.
*Cut to Carla’s checklist. I have to assume ‘Do whatever the hell you want, you motherfucking goddess’ is just the last thing on her list every day because it’s got to be hugely motivating.*
BBCC
Yeah, the Walkertons would barely be getting started before Carla has a very convenient migraine. 😛
Danielle
aw shit
Bagge
Are we all not glad Sally is not associating with hoodlums such as Marcie, Linda? I am sure this is a much more preferable turn of events, Linda. Aren’t we happy, Linda?
C.T Phipps
To be fair, Linda was right that Sal was hanging around Hoodlums. It’s just not Marcie.
BBCC
She didn’t even seem to like Asher very much last strip.
Y’know, ’til she needed to get money for Marcie and piss off her parents.
Kris
There is a lingering question as to why Asher is associated with Sal at all. As you said Sal seems at minimum indifferent to this guy so why is she hanging with him besides maybe a screw you to Linda. Especially considering he owns the actual “bad influence” title Linda is so keen to pin on Marcie. Who are you Asher?! And why are you wearing shades at night like a tool!
Kris
…I just realized how ironic it would be if Linda introduced Sal to Asher as an alternative to hanging out with Marcie. Although maybe that’s too big a coincidence.