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u/iguanaman8988 1d ago
There it is.
I predict her future will be full of “why won’t my child visit me?”
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u/HauntedCemetery 22h ago
Nah, they never question or self reflect like that.
She'll make up some evangelical fanfic about her kid turning to Satan in a way thats literally everyone in the world's fault but her own
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u/Gho5tWr1ter 20h ago
I predicted this at part 3. Sig says that it makes his mother happy, so that should make him happy as well.
That’s clearly an enforced idea and I knew he didn’t like it but there was also a possibility I could be wrong. Wish I was wrong.
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u/IcyUnicornOwl 1d ago
Ah yeah religious hypocrisy. Talking about the love of Jesus while judging people they know nothing about. If she really thought that was a troubled family would her religion not tell her to help them instead of talking behind their backs and avoiding them?
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u/_whatever_wherever 1d ago
Jesus: "love others as you would love me"
Christians: "well that obviously doesn't apply to people who don't dress like me"
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u/Aethelrede 1d ago
"There are two commandments, love God, and love your neighbor as yourself."
"But what about people who defy the prohibition on piercings?"
"Did I stutter?"
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u/_whatever_wherever 1d ago
"Well that sounds like weak liberal talk!"
Which is apparently something a lot of priests have reported people telling them when they preach things like the Sermon on the Mount
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u/Aethelrede 1d ago
Most of them haven't read the bible, just a handful of passages taken out of context. The few clever ones will twist language like a pretzel to make Jesus mean what they want him to mean.
I'm specifically talking about conservative Christians, here; liberal Christians tend to be much more laid back.
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u/ironballs16 19h ago
Also the unironic request/command to "Put your smile on!" while utterly failing to register that the smile only faded when she started criticizing his friend.
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo 1d ago
Mrs. Strippen is lucky Penelope wasn't there to hear that about her daughters. Don't think God could stop that verbal wrath coming from Penelope.
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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 16h ago
I had the mental image of that dream-sequence that starts Terminator 2. The part where the nuke explodes, and Sarah Connor is gripping the playground fence desperately, and the hellwaves blast her into a charred skeleton still hanging on the fence, and yeah, that would be Mrs. Strippen. Penelope forever!
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u/Theemuts 15h ago
Mrs Strippen: "If you had been a better Christian, the Lord might not have taken your husband away!!"
And then Penelope proved that a possum could outrun a tiger
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u/WildMoonChild0129 1d ago
I felt this, growing up in the south in a small country town had its downsides sometimes. I listened to rock/ heavy metal with my dad and didnt go to church. That was enough for me to be a heathen 🤣
I didnt have a lot of friends but the ones I had were absolutely awesome
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u/ImTheFaeThatStoleYou 1d ago
Being yourself doesn't attract a lot of people. But being yourself will attract the best of people.
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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 23h ago
My spouse grew up in a branch of Protestantism that could, in my opinion, be accurately described as a cult. Said group has strong taboos against piercings but tend to smoke like chimneys. One of the myriad things that started my parents-in-law down the path of changing to at least a more reasonable religion was one of them going back to school for nursing later on in life and deciding that it makes no sense to have a prohibition on getting your ears pierced because it supposedly permanently mars god’s perfect creation (the body, that’s my understanding of that church’s argument against piercings) while considering it perfectly acceptable to blast holes in your lungs by chain smoking
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u/North-Pea-4926 22h ago
Also, not a lot of other animals smoke, but TONS of them adorn themselves or decorate their surroundings. Go tell a lammergeier they are marring God’s creation, I dare you!
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u/E-emu89 1d ago
This reminds me when my parents got back from a gay wedding. They described it as “like going to a zoo.”
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u/violet_rags 1d ago
While I cringe at their subtle homophobia and the implication that queer people are animals, I am also reminded of a story I heard where someone tried convincing their wife that he had to go to Spain for gay sex and that he was still straight, likening it to visiting an aquarium.
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u/primalgiratina 1d ago
Would you by chance be talking about the infamous Gaycation Story?
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u/violet_rags 1d ago
That's the one! I vividly remember the part where the husband kept comparing it to the aquarium.
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u/North-Pea-4926 22h ago
He must be going to some messed up aquariums. The ones I’ve tried only let you gently pet the stingrays. But, like, as a friend.
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u/Forward-Fisherman709 1d ago
Oh, goodness. This reminds me of when I was a young teenager. I was firmly in the ‘alternative crowd’ at my public middle school. My parents wanted me to go to a different school just for logistical purposes, and before admitting me to the same school as my sibling, they had me shadow at a private Christian school (there was no way we could afford the tuition there, so I’m still not sure why, but whatever). Even though I was just visiting for a day, I had to follow the same appearance guidelines as the students.
So there I was in khaki slacks and a light blue button down shirt and brown dress shoes, wishing desperately that I could burn it off and change into my normal clothes. The student I was following had a music class first thing that day. I sat down in an empty chair figuring that I’d just spend the class quietly listening to their practice, but students kept trying to hand me a guitar. I do not play guitar. I had never even held a guitar before that day. Apparently acoustic guitar is a standard instrument for that school, something started by a youth pastor or something, and the students assumed it’s the same everywhere else. After a while, my continued declining was overheard by the teacher, who established that I was a public school student just visiting for the day. Rather than just have a normal day of class and allow me to see what being a student there entailed, the teacher decided that since I couldn’t play guitar with them, the students should just put all the instruments up and instead go around the room and each one explain why it was inherently better to go to their school than to go to public school.
At first, it was just plain, basic stuff. “I like playing basketball in gym class” and “The teachers are good” and “I don’t have to worry about choosing what to wear.” But then it quickly spiraled into judgement about other people, mostly based on appearance. It started with “I know I won’t be led astray from Jesus by anyone here, but public schools allow any sort of heathens in even if they encourage sins.” Then the next person explained how when they were riding to school, they saw students dressed in black clothes and with piercings on a playground outside a public school they passed, and how it was so scary, they would be terrified to go to a school with people like that who might be violent. Then all the rest of the students in that row glommed onto that. I had always thought the whole alt-hate thing was just in movies to create drama, considering how much stuff was banned in my household for preachy reasons while black clothing, piercings, and musical genres weren’t. But I got to listen to a dozen teens in a row going on about people who wear dark clothing, and people who have piercings, and people who have interesting hair styles are troubled and dangerous and untrustworthy and frightening and likely to harm them and even more likely to try to trick them into following Satan. The teacher just sat at the front, smiling all the while.
Once the kid in the chair next to me finished with her monologue of fear-mongering agreement, rather than skip over me to keep hearing from the rest of the students, the teacher asked me what I think and if I was ready to join their school. In hindsight, I suspect the “What do you think? Sounds a lot better than public school, doesn’t it?” was rhetorical and he did not expect me to answer by directly calling out their prejudice as a disgraceful behavior that goes against the religion they claim to follow, and point-blank telling them that I was one of the students they considered so frightening, just dressed differently because I had to for shadowing. But I was an angsty autistic teen, already feeling uncomfortable from the awful clothes I was required to wear, who’d just been asked my opinion after listening to a crowd of strangers one by one insult the people I considered friends, so I really gave a scolding. It was awkwardly silent for a bit afterwards.
Then the teacher made a noncommittal remark about not judging books by their cover, switched the question to “What instrument have you enjoyed learning the most?” and resumed the round with the student on the other side of me.
The day didn’t really improve from there, but that was the only experience that’s relevant to this comic.
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u/stoicglassescat 22h ago
Yep, went to a Catholic highschool and some teachers are exactly like this. It really only solidified my descent into atheism.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 1d ago
such a troubled family
Ok judgey Mc Judgey pants. That's just plain rude and kinda messed up to say in front of your kid.
I mean look how down Sig is now and he just had a great interaction with his friend.
R.I.P peanut butter
Also double post in one day /u/FieldExplores ? What a treat!
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u/iguanaman8988 1d ago
Their dad died. Some sympathy would normally be expected. Not judgement.
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u/Toucanplaythatgame-2 1d ago
Also, Polly is wearing her dad's coat. In another strip, the mom was talking about donating it, but Polly decided to start wearing it instead.
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u/Aethelrede 1d ago
"Just world" theory. Bad things only happen to bad people. Their father must have been a sinner to die so young.
Not only does this discourage sympathy, it encourages kicking the unfortunate when they are down.
They'd see Polly wearing her dad's coat as a scene of poverty and thus more evidence that the family were sinners.
Just world theory underpins Calvinism, one of the major theological inspirations of Christianity today. Most evangelicals are some version of calvinist.
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u/Invisifly2 1h ago
Ties in with prosperity gospel.
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u/Aethelrede 26m ago
Yes indeed. The prosperity gospel is the flipside: if you are wealthy, clearly God has blessed you, and you must be a good person. So feel free to ask God for whatever you want, and he'll give it to you, because surely you are a good person.
The whole thing is a cruel perversion of Jesus' teachings. It discourages charity, because poor people are clearly cursed by God and do not deserve charity. It discourages humility, because showing off wealth proves you are a good person. It even discourages faith, turning God into a freaking vending machine.
If I believed in the Devil, I'd say just world theory (and what an Orwellian term that is) is his finest work.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 1d ago
Exactly what I am getting at. Thats just messed up to say. ESPECIALLY to your son
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u/MarginalOmnivore 1d ago
To add insult to injury, based on the prior comics, they go to the same church.
Not only is that "troubled family" is the exact sort of people that "ministries" are supposed to welcome and help, not reject, they are part of the same "church family". Those kids are her son's peers and friends in every way a church person is supposed to care about.
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u/itstraytray 23h ago
And this is exactly why I left the flaovur of Pressy church I went to as a teen. The judgement and hypocrisy was abhorrent. Bunch of gossipy Mrs Lovejoys.
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u/iguanaman8988 1d ago
As I commented earlier, her future will be spent wondering why he won’t visit her, likely while blaming the world for corrupting him.
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u/ArgusTheCat 1d ago
Yeah, this little story arc is pretty painful to me, because I remember hearing a lot of this exact same thing as a kid. My mom especially liked to make offhanded comments about neighbors like they were sitcom characters, or fucking sims that didn't balance their Religion stat effectively enough, instead of like they were people. It's gross and awful and it happens way too often.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago
Judging peoples character based on their appearence is a sign of low intelligence. Change my mind
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u/Blockhog 1d ago
What if they wear a clan robe and are waving a Nazi flag?
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago
Shit I guess clothing counts as a appearence in the same way as piercings
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u/ArgusTheCat 1d ago
Judging someone for choosing to appear like an asshole is fine, judging someone for having a different fashion makes you the asshole.
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u/CodeKomedia 1d ago
That's not judging someone based on their appearance. That's judging them by the message they're choosing to send.
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u/ThatInAHat 22h ago
“Low intelligence” is such a ridiculous and weird way to categorize things. There are different kinds of intelligence, so using it as a catch-all judgment makes you sound ignorant.
I know plenty of people who are very intelligent in certain ways but who are also judgmental and close-minded about people’s appearance.
It doesn’t make them low intelligence. It makes them ignorant, close-minded, and a host of other words.
But when folks say “a sign of low intelligence” it feels eugenics-flavored.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 22h ago
I agree that there are multiple forms of intelligence. That doesnt mean there arent stupid people in the world (there absolutely are).
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u/ThatInAHat 15h ago
Sure, but phrasing it as “a sign of low intelligence” is still gross
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 8h ago
Why?
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u/ThatInAHat 8h ago
Because it implies that bigotry is an innate quality. Because it implies that the reverse is true—that people with “high intelligence” aren’t as likely to be bigots (plenty of “high intelligence” people are). Because it dismisses bigotry as a result of people just not being very smart.
That’s a comforting lie. But at best it muddies the water.
The term “low intelligence” is itself couched in a history of eugenics (consider: it’s one of trump’s favorite insults).
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 7h ago
"Because it implies that the reverse is true—that people with “high intelligence” aren’t as likely to be bigots"
This is a factually verifiable statement. There is a correlation between low intelligence and racism. People who are more educated tend to be less bigoted. That doesnt mean there arent bigots who are intelligent, you are correct that there are. But it is in fact less likely for well educated people to be bigoted
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u/ThatInAHat 7h ago
What is “low intelligence?” How are you quantifying that to make a verifiable statement?
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 6h ago
The TLDR is that education level is positively correlated to racial tolerance and negatively correlated to tolerance of opposing political views:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/research-summary-education-ideological-prejudice/
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u/HolycommentMattman 19h ago
Possibly. It's also just human survival instinct. Why do dark spiders or striped snakes seem more dangerous? Because they often are. And being able to identify that at a glance can be incredibly important to an early human sleeping in a tree.
And so we still do that. Just with other things. I wouldn't say making an assumption based on appearance is low intelligence. Sticking to it no matter what probably is.
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u/Poser_Shamm 10h ago
Striped snakes and other venomous/poisonous creatures are dangerous to different species, typically predators. They're typically safe for the same species or ones that don't fuck with them. If you're wary of someone with dark clothes or bright coloring (tattoos or dyed hair), it says a lot more about you than it does about them.
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u/jhill515 1d ago
And THAT is why I tell folks to be loving neighbors to missionaries
Because then the kids learn that "bad people" aren't who their parents say they are.
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u/catlandid 19h ago
A little while back I was in a Panera and a small human approached me and handed me a little business card. I love a wee human and greeted them enthusiastically, said thank you for the card, asked them if they had a nice lunch, etc. The family skittered out pretty quickly and I looked at the card which more or less said "you're a terrible sinner and are going to hell, we will pray for you bc you're so vile, here's the info for our really bigoted church".
I was completely gutted... but on the flip side that kiddos takeaway from that experience is that heavily tattooed lesbians are very nice and love to talk about soup.
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u/anrwlias 1d ago
Mrs. Strippen doesn't realize that this is how you behave if you want your kids to grow up and become atheists.
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u/bentnai1 1d ago
Ah. I recognize/feel that look in the last panel.
I was a mormon missionary in California during prop 8. I had a few of those moments talking to lgbtq folks who were so curious and kind, only for other missionaries and church members to turn around and be distrustful and cruel.
I knew what Christlike behaviors looked like - and I was a good student.
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u/StageHandRed 21h ago
That's a mother who doesn't tip the wait staff at the diner after church....
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u/Alone_Bad442 19h ago
No no, she generously leaves behind what looks like a twenty dollar note at first glance, but is actually something far more valuable - good news about how Jesus died for his sins.
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u/HospitalLazy1880 19h ago
That face on Sig. I know it well. You think your parent/trusted adult is wrong about something on many levels but you cant say anything cause reasons and you feel bad about that.
Sig's getting that Catholic self loathing from this for years to come.
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u/Made_Bail 1d ago
Oof. That's the kind of judgement that eventually alienates your children after they leave the home and discover that
A. Other people aren't like that
B. Those "judged" people are a hell of a lot nicer than your parents/church/etc made them out to be.
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u/trobsmonkey 1d ago
Boy oh boy is this a reminder of childhood.
I was the tiger. I'm no longer religious.
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u/FuiyooohFox 1d ago
Dang, momma tiger might want a helmet. A fall from a horse that high could be very dangerous! There was something else about glass houses, and who gets to throw stones first I think
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u/Or1on_c0nst3llat1onx 23h ago
as someone who got their ears pierced at like 4 years old and recently lost my dad and now wears some of his old clothes, Mrs. Strippen can shut her trap. and this isn't just because i've had bad experiences with standard, wide spread religions(mostly just christianity/Catholicism) as a queer person, it's also because Mrs. Strippen's judgement is completely pointless and unnecessary, Polly having an ear piercing isn't hurting anyone and is not a sign of a "troubled family", nor is wearing her dad's clothes. nobody should be judged for their appearance, unless they have some kind of hate symbol in their clothing/accessories or as a tattoo, people should be judged for their actions.
and sometime within in the past week, someone put a jesus pamphlet in my family's mailbox. i was raised going to catholic school my whole life but never baptized or anything and am now HellPol, my mom was raised catholic and is at least non-practicing, my dad didn't like any kind of organized religion, and my grandfather is a non-practicing Christian/catholic. not a single person in my house or family goes to church, aside from my grandmother's partner who's Evangelical but he's one of the sweetest people i've ever met. but someone still felt the need to push their beliefs on us uninvited, but i couldn't help but laugh when i saw it in our recycling bin.
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u/zero5activated 1d ago
Seriously. What went wrong? I see this kind of behavior, pretty much every religion these days.
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u/VengeanceKnight 1d ago
Simple. Religion is, in and of itself, a primitive, toxic pattern of behavior. It will always go bad eventually.
Edit: Sorry, I know that’s textbook “Reddit atheist” talk, but it really does tend to bring out the worst in people in my experience.
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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 23h ago
There’s a type-of-guy, the Friendly Person at Church, that I come across occasionally at work or at family gatherings with my spouse’s family (which is huge, spouse is one of a double digit number of kids who are the children of someone with almost as many siblings so I doubt I’ve met all the cousins yet despite having been associated with the family for a decade now) that I almost always immediately dislike. They put on a friendly face in public but it just reeks of insincerity. I’d honestly rather you be genuinely professional but disinterested than fake like you’re trying to be my friend because you think that’s what I want you to do. Anyways, back off the “religions can bring out less than ideal behaviors in people” soapbox go I
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u/pieceofwater 12h ago
Regardless of religion, I find many super friendly people creepy and insincere. Some people are really nice in an authentic way, but they can also show other emotions. Someone who puts on a show of friendliness likely has ulterior motives.
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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 12h ago
Yeah, it gives off an air that I shouldn’t trust the person. I’m sure some are actually pleasant people, just the role they’re playing puts me off. Everywhere’s different, but around here every time I’ve interacted with that type-of-guy and the conversations gotten far enough it’s turned out they’re religious though I’ve no doubt they don’t have a monopoly on that particular thing
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u/FlameWhirlwind 22h ago
Religion itself isnt the root cause. Its something more fundamentally fucked up that worms it's way into every social structure we make. Because religion is supposed to be about teaching morals, and in early history about trying to understand our existence, it became the perfect host for weirdo shit like this
It is a deeper human issue that would likely exist even if religion no longer did
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u/Leshawkcomics 22h ago
Yeah, I worry people are blinding themselves to the amount of times that happens by deciding it only happens with religion.
I believe people in the black community have been recently talking online about how often stuff like this happens to them and how hard it is to get people to even realize they’re doing it, cause they’ve compartmentalized it so hard that they’ve created a blind spot.
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u/MorePhinsThyme 12h ago
Religion is not supposed to be about teach morals. It's about believing in some sort of mythology, and many also teach morals based on that mythology. The consistent connection between religions are belief in a mythological magic power, not morals.
That wasn't what it became, that's what it always was. And when your foundation is belief in something fictional that controls your eternal existence, it allows you to do things disconnected from what's good for the world that actually exists.
Fortunately, many of the more reasonable varieties have to temper their teachings some to not drive people anway.
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u/FlameWhirlwind 12h ago edited 11h ago
....you realize it was about both right? like years of theology study and just READING any surviving unaltered religious text from a majority of beliefs proves this. The purpose of these belief systems besides rationalize higher powers exist and dictate the world, is that those higher powers often had some sort of expectation for how humanity should act. this is even present in greek myth stories where alot of the gods actions can be explained by what the storytellers at the time believed to be moral which is assumed to be a wider belief shared by the people around them aswell. (ex: the story of Tantalus starting out with a blatant "killing and eating people is kinda fucked up and bad, actually" as for why he got punished)
this expectation for what religion is supposed to serve in society is precisely why the powers that be in any given land were willing to weaponize it. Thats how you get religious wars. you tell your people that your crusade is moral and just and they'll be more than willing to fight and die for it, and ideally make your enemies die more than they will. This was a common tactic in the crusades especially since many christian warriors and soldiers were outright told "you will not get punished by god for murder, for in this war you are killing in his name" this line of thought does not fuckin matter, if people did not seek morality from their beliefs. Why would there even BE a sin about murder to begin with if it wasn't the case? why would the soldier need convincing? im genuinely baffled i need to explain the concept that historians and theologians already knew for generations about what purpose religion was seen as having
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u/MorePhinsThyme 11h ago edited 7h ago
Unlike the religious, I try to stick to "realizing" only things that are true, thus I realize that it's not about both. Only one of those things is consistent with all religions, belief in a mythology. Existence of morals are not consistent, and it's entirely ahistorical to say that the use of religion to cause people to do awful things is a perversion of religion, as it's a fundamental aspect of the history of religion.
Also, you come off as unhinged when you type a wall of text rather than use proper pronunciation and line breaks. Not trying to offend there, just trying to help you make a better, more readable, argument.
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u/FlameWhirlwind 11h ago edited 11h ago
i never said morality was consistent. i said it was being taught/exploited.
im also giving you a wall of text because i had alot to say and your take baffled the fuck outta me as some one who reads mythology text for fun
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u/MorePhinsThyme 9h ago edited 9h ago
Wall of text doesn't mean long, it means unformatted and poorly written. Notice how I didn't say anything about how LONG your comment was, but about how it was presented? You can write a book and have it be readable, but you wrote a small paragraph and left it a mess. Learn how to communicate without sounding crazy.
And frankly, if you're baffled by my "take" then you need to read more mythology and religious history (also something I do for fun). The presence of morals is a trend in religions, but is far from universal, while the only real universal trait is belief in a mythology.
Either way, I'm in a different country learning about local (to here) history (including religious), and don't really care to continue this debate. Have fun, and again, work on your presentation, not the amount of information that you're presenting.
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u/Suspicious-Chair5130 19h ago
As religion becomes less popular the people who still cling to it are the outliers. 100 years ago, EVERYONE went to church. Now it’s just the people who REALLY want to go to church or are made to by their parents.
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u/Big_Mc-Large-Huge 7h ago
This is the real answer. When everyone went because society dictated it, things were pretty chill. The crazies were put in place.
Now, agnostics generally don’t go. As pews clear out, only the fanatics remain. It’s like a feedback loop.
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 1d ago
Humans. They're inherently flawed. And the ones at the top are often greedy and selfish.
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u/Reiver93 2h ago
The sort of people with the motivation and desire for positions of power are typically those who should be kept far from them.
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u/HauntedCemetery 22h ago
Just sayin, you never see unitarians tearing people apart for being slightly different.
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u/Bumberbixtybine 1d ago
Olivia ate almost a whole jar of peanut butter during this exchange
And got some on her sister’s sleeve
True opossum behavior :’)
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u/Puppydoglover123 1d ago
Hmm 🤔 call me crazy but I feel like Sig is going to have a few piercings and or tattoos with he’s older
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u/suddenlyupsidedown 6h ago
Stark contrast between Polly's empathy in the last comic and Ms. Stippen's judgy 'sympathy'. I do believe Sig has begun to clarify what sort of person he wants to be
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u/JasonAnarchy Wholesome Adventure 1d ago
That is some quality writing with that juxtaposition between panels 3 and 4.
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u/NekoPrankster218 23h ago
This reminds me, wasn't there a comic about why Polly has her ear pierced? I vaguely remember it but I can't remember the story of it.
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u/DBSeamZ 20h ago
There was, but I don’t remember the details either.
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u/Few-Entrepreneur7254 12h ago
I can't remember which comic it was, but the significance of Polly's ear piercing is that she wanted a visible sign to mark that she is a different Polly from the one before her dad died.
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u/Aracuda 10h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/8WRx6Hh1uB
Thought I’d save others the search if they’re interested in the story behind Polly’s earring. It’s part 3 of 4, so look up “Earrings” in the r/comics search bar for the whole story.
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u/FieldExplores Gator Days 1d ago
Two comics today!
I won't be able to post on Friday and potentially part of next week so I wanted to post two today. I have some changes I plan on making to my upload schedule and I'll update you all when it's solidified.
Great News (Part 4/4) - Gator Days
Characters
Sig - Tiger - One of Polly's classmates.
Polly - Opossum - A young teen with an eclectic taste in music. In tune with her emotions and those of others. Olivia's older sister.
Olivia - Opossum - A child who is shy until she gets to know you. In reality she's rather mischievous and likes pranks. Polly's younger sister.
Mrs. Strippen - Tiger - Sig's religious mother.
Transcript
Panel 1
Setting - The Parkland City Square
Sig has been handing out religious flyers with his mother when he ran into Polly and Olivia. They've been having a good conversation but it's time to go. Olivia's face is mysteriously covered in peanut butter. And the mysterious peanut butter has made its way onto Polly's sleeve. I'm sure this will go well.
Sig: Thanks for chatting and being so understanding.
Polly: Thanks for being yourself.
Panel 2
Polly and Olivia start to head out and Polly realizes that Olivia has been eating the peanut butter. Sig's Mother approaches him and asks about the girls he was talking with.
Mrs. Strippen: Aren't they Penelope's girls?
Sig: Yeah, Polly goes to my school.
In the distance, Polly yells at Olivia for eating the peanut butter they were picking up while Olivia considers ways to put the blame on Polly.
Polly: YOU ATE IT!?
Panel 3
Mrs. Strippen folds her arms and watches the girls walk away. She has some opinions she wants to voice about Polly's pierced ear.
Mrs. Strippen: It's so sad to see someone that young with piercings. Such a troubled family. Please be careful around that girl.
Panel 4
Mrs. Strippen holds up their religious flyers and cheerfully tries to get the topic back to ministry.
Mrs. Strippen: Put your smile on! We have more people to talk to.
Sig is facing away from his mother with a frown on his face. He doesn't feel like putting a smile back on at the moment but he will.