The part that kills me the most is that over the years her mother has learned more English and I have spoken with her at family events and found her to be a wonderful person. Her lies to her husband and the rest of the family and friends was bad enough, but she dishonored her mother by fabricating her family history. Her mother was a hard working immigrant that worked hard all her life to give her daughter a better life. (yeah, I guess I still haven't forgiven her)

Was she (pardon the term) illegitimate? I can see how that could be shameful to the degree at certain times and places to make one fabricate like that. That kind of pain can be epic.

(Though I still wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her)

Panel 5 is just for Teppy:

I am impressed by the semi-colon, and it often tempts me to sexual congress!

The man at the garage who repeatedly calls me "hon" on the phone does not endear himself to me. ::growls::

Was she (pardon the term) illegitimate? I can see how that could be shameful to the degree at certain times and places to make one fabricate like that. That kind of pain can be epic.

I don't know if I will ever know the whole story. I think that now that she is a working mother herself she may have a new respect for her mother. She was raised in a community filled with poor immigrants and no doubt made up the stories of her parents' wealth to present herself as someone better in her mind. I hope that some day she can take pride in her mother's accomplishments and her own. She is an RN with a masters degree and her mom now is retired and lives in her house. It bugs because for years we had to hear how she would live like a princess with servants if she went back to her home country. Your mom came to America and gave you a better life! Be proud, not delusional.

Peoples is strange.

someone must be messing with the time-space continuum.

Gud? MM? Jilli? ... Owen?

I assure you I have not been hooking up a micro fusion reactor to a flux capacitor and using the outputs to synchronize a pulse graviton emitter and tachyon array. Nope, definitely not doing that.

There was an admin at a non-profit I worked for years ago who led everyone in her life through a fake pregnancy saga that completely mystified me.

If it had just been the multiple office showers, the money and the attention, I could have understood, but she dragged her mother, with whom she lived, through the ringer with her. When things began to go badly, she somehow influenced her mother to make debasing calls to our boss about how wronged her daughter was. Later, it was discovered that she'd pulled this same scam in other offices.

Even worse, the organization took a massive beating when those who wanted to believe her came over all sanctimonious and, down right cruel, towards anyone with a doubt. I'm not sure relationships ever recovered, even after she got fired for stealing. Or rather, letting her boyfriend into the office after hours so HE could carry away the computers and phones, etc.

After all that, the people who were hoodwinked just couldn't let it go. It was awful.

Peoples is strange.

Deeply strange.

Oh my god allergies are making me want to claw my face off.

Oh my god allergies are making me want to claw my face off.

Really? Because work is making me want to claw my face off. And others', while I'm at it.

Shark Knife will terrify your enemies with macho impracticality

The shark knife isn't going to win any beauty contests, but that's OK, because shark knives aren't about looking good, they're about getting the job done. And the job here is looking insanely tough, but with a tender, whimsical side. The Klingons have a word for this, most often translated as "trying too hard."