Continuing yesterday’s theme, here are some more rejects I forgot to share this summer!
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Top Rejects of June and July 2011!
It just occurred to me that I have been forgetting to share rejects. June and July were so long ago, I’m going to just combine them into one and give you five from each.
JUNE 2011
5.
My Breakup Letter to the 40th & Dodge McDonald’s
The 40th & Dodge McDonald’s and I have a long history together. When I moved to Omaha in 2006, it became my new cartooning office. I’d load up my newspapers and head down there to crank out my sketches for the day. Most of my greatest “Witnessed” sketches — like this one, this one, this one and this one — took place there.
Over time, I began cartooning at other places, but that was still my favorite. So it was with a heavy heart that I sent this customer feedback through McDonalds.com last week:
I consistently have terrible experiences at the 40th & Dodge McDonald’s, but I keep coming back because it’s convenient and it was my first favorite McD’s in Omaha. I have this strange emotional attachment to it, dating back to when I first moved to town. It’s always filthy and my order is always messed up, even when really simple (for example, two weeks ago I ordered a $1 sausage breakfast burrito. I got the more expensive McSkillet burrito. Instead of correcting the order, the staff just told me how underrated the McSkillet is). But I still came back! It had charm.
But not anymore. Last week I was there for lunch, and a man stood at the drink station and washed his face and hair in the water dispenser. He was leaning in, head under the spout, washing off. It’s disgusting on its own, but what made it unforgivable was the fact that a manager was standing right there, refilling the napkins and straws. Didn’t say a word. I know I should’ve said something, but I was shocked by the whole scene.
I used to have fun in the Foursquare battle to be mayor of that location. I think I’m still mayor now. But I’m never going back. This was the straw that broke the filthy, cluttered, poor-listening camel’s back. So I just thought you should know — if this location has gotten so awful that its Foursquare mayor is giving up on it, I can’t be the only one.
I do not want or need anything in response to this. I’m still a happy McDonald’s customer. I still frequent other locations in town. But I’m done at 40th & Dodge.
As I told them, I didn’t want or need anything in response. The last thing I wanted was a coupon or something redeemable only at that location. “Come see how we’ve stopped letting people bathe in our drink station and have a Big Mac on us!” But I was kind of hoping they’d call or send an e-mail.
I still hold the mayor crown even though I haven’t been there in almost two weeks. Whoever wants it, it’s yours.
The Daily Nebraskan won its lawsuit!
from The Daily Nebraskan:
A Lancaster County judge dismissed the libel lawsuit against the Daily Nebraskan on Wednesday.
Third District Judge Jodi Nelson said at the end of the trial that in public libel cases, the law is clear: The plaintiff must prove the statement published was false and the maker of the statements has serious doubts the statement was false at the publication date.
There was no evidence of the legal standard presented during the trial, Nelson said.
“The judge has to make a decision based on the evidence,” said Robert Prokop, a former University of Nebraska regent. “Obviously, she made that decision in that way.”
Word on the scene was that it was quite the show.
Death to the Oxford Comma
Do you hate Oxford commas?
Do you also hate Facebook forwards that prove nothing more than the fact that if you selectively arrange the elements in a sentence no one would ever say, you can make something sound confusing?
The original (no idea who created it, or I’d give credit):
My return shot:
Celebrating past work on this Labor Day:
A couple old rejects
I’m at my parents’ house for Labor Day and found a few old sketches on their computer from the days before I started sharing rejects!
from September 2006:
from November 2006 (this one is my favorite): Continue reading
It’s like 10,000 spoons
I want to ride around in a dumptruck, so I’m trying to make contact with “dirt dude,” the General Manager of Land Construction who left a comment on a recent cartoon making the following offer (emphasis mine):
We would like to invite you to ride with one of our trucks if you like to witness the operation yourself. Call me anytime and we will see you get a first hand look at the situation. I would have written you a personal e-mail but the email address on the cartoon is not valid.
I looked up Land Construction and found an email address on their contact page and sent a message trying to get in touch with “dirt dude” and hook up that ride in the dumptruck.
I just got this:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
info@landconstruction.com
I guess in fairness, he did tell me to call.
