Huh…I understood it as they made the same trip to the ice cream stand so often that they first wore a path on the ground, and it eventually got deeper with every pass
My grandmother was 100% gray by age 21. She hated it, until she moved to work in Japan for a few years and was treated like royalty by people who respect older citizens.
I’ve followed FBorFW since early childhood, especially Michael, a young boy who shared my name and was only a couple years older than I. His (mis)adventures while growing up became my own shortly after, even unto having children. To see myself in a strip, aging as I did, learning as I did, is a memory I shall always cherish. (And of course reread through every anthology sitting in a prominent space on my bookshelf. My daughter also loves the strip.)
I still remember when those hands-free devices first came out, I thought the cute girl in the buffet line was hitting on me, I responded in kind and got the strangest look in return as she told her boyfriend to hang on, some creep was talking to her…
Huh…I understood it as they made the same trip to the ice cream stand so often that they first wore a path on the ground, and it eventually got deeper with every pass