At the risk of second guessing Willis too much, I’d say it’s something that is Not Skin, but IS of human bodily origin. And whilst not a tadpole, may well be full of many millions of things that superficially resemble them.
Especially if it’s a coed bathroom, but even if it isn’t.
And really, it’s better that it’s in the corner, because the mess you get when hair becomes matted with… other stuff… is just grossness squared, and it does NOT wash away.
Could simply be no one told her the importance of having special flip-flops for college showers. Also, she’s shown she’s really attached to being so sheltered. Some crud about preserving a sense of purity, or something.
I’m actually pretty sure it’s just her personality. People can be squeamish or spermaphobic. It has nothing to do with how sheltered she is. Not everything about her has to be about her home life. In fact, as Dr. Z pointed out, being sheltered can sometimes mean not being squeamish at all, because the person never thought that they had any reason to be!
I wouldn’t call my childhood “sheltered,” exactly, but I have definitely experienced this. I can remember many times when I was a kid where I did something that everyone around me thought was nasty, and my reaction was something like “What? What’d I do?”
We’ll have to catch them while they’re still skin tadpoles and train them to serve us. I know I’m going to! I’ll have the strongest skin tadpole and eventually the strongest skin frog.
and then I will be a Pokemon Master.
Okay look Sarah, these shower stalls are clearly extremely scary and dangerous and Joyce is still really in a fragile state of mind. Clearly what needs to happen is for you to shower with her so she feels safe. This is said entirely out of concern for Joyce and not in any way a desire for fan service and/or roomie shipping.
Why yes – having a recent near-rape victim who is a professed non-lesbian be placed in a highly sexualized lesbian sort of situation with the woman who shares the room she sleeps in – that would be excellent therapy!
Sarah named her sandals “Sandless” because she never goes to the beach in them. She has another pair named Sandfuls. She DOES go to the beach in those.
Hey, I’m on Joyce’s side here. This sort of crap is the reason I never wanted a dorm with a communal bathroom again. One should NOT have to wear sandals just to take a shower…
It should be also noted that I go to an art college, so sometimes the shower floors, in addition to collecting hair and other lovely bodily items, sometimes contained rather…interesting materials.
I’m still wondering who thought a ton of small rocks would go down the shower drain easily.
Has Joyce not showered this entire time? I realize that only like a week has gone by in DoA time, but I still feel like this conversation should have happened already…
I didn’t know communal showers in college were a thing! I feel lucky for going to a college where the dorms had every two rooms joined by a common bathroom! Only ever had to worry about your roommate and the two other folks in the other room!
Oh, believe me, sometimes that’s PLENTY to worry about. My first roommate tried to flush a toilet paper tube, flooded the entire bathroom with septic water which he then left for a week.
I hated the communal showers we had in college. Always filthy and hairy. I would have thought they would be better now though. I mean it’s been **mumble** years. I guess some things just don’t change.
I can’t feel bad for Joyce when the communal showers on my floor were notorious for people defecating in them. After opening a shower stall to see a single turd just lying there on top the drain, nothing else – especially something as simple hair – can really phase you. (The problem was so bad that flyers were placed all around the hall threatening to fine everyone on the fourth floor if whoever was doing it didn’t stop. That did not deter the culprit.)
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Aw man. Please tell me she’s not THAT sheltered.
Apparently, I am. What is it? Do I want to know?
Honestly, I am too. Anyone care to explain?
Public showers in colleges have a tendancy to be rather gross. To prevent athletes foot, you should always wear flip-flops in them.
I didn’t realize athlete’s foot fungus were visible to the naked eye, nor that it looked like tiny globules of flesh.
I did always wear sandals to go shower, though. Mostly because they were the easiest to have on when going back to my room.
ohhh athletes foot fungus is quite visible. Take it from a guy who’s had it since he was 8 years old
At the risk of second guessing Willis too much, I’d say it’s something that is Not Skin, but IS of human bodily origin. And whilst not a tadpole, may well be full of many millions of things that superficially resemble them.
Especially if it’s a coed bathroom, but even if it isn’t.
And really, it’s better that it’s in the corner, because the mess you get when hair becomes matted with… other stuff… is just grossness squared, and it does NOT wash away.
I know sheltered people who are not babies.
They’d just remove the hair (because it slows the drain) AND FREAKIN’ TAKE A SHOWER.
Could simply be no one told her the importance of having special flip-flops for college showers. Also, she’s shown she’s really attached to being so sheltered. Some crud about preserving a sense of purity, or something.
I’m actually pretty sure it’s just her personality. People can be squeamish or spermaphobic. It has nothing to do with how sheltered she is. Not everything about her has to be about her home life. In fact, as Dr. Z pointed out, being sheltered can sometimes mean not being squeamish at all, because the person never thought that they had any reason to be!
I wouldn’t call my childhood “sheltered,” exactly, but I have definitely experienced this. I can remember many times when I was a kid where I did something that everyone around me thought was nasty, and my reaction was something like “What? What’d I do?”
One day those same skin tadpoles will grow up to skin frogs and they will slowly take over the world.
We’ll have to catch them while they’re still skin tadpoles and train them to serve us. I know I’m going to! I’ll have the strongest skin tadpole and eventually the strongest skin frog.
and then I will be a Pokemon Master.
That’s why Sarah’s giving Joyce her Sandiles.
I just… You win everything.
Joyce is the one who sees the custodian cleaning out the showers early in the morning and waits patiently for that first clean stall.
…And then leaves it cleaner than the custodian did.
Wow, Adrian Monk’s got a lot younger. And female.
This could have good marketability…
With your mom for a nickle
You’re mother only charged a penny last night. 😉
My mom only charges a dime. And she knows the correct usage of “Your” and “You’re”.
You win an internet. Here is your prize.
Sarah’s AV makes the comment perfect.
No, in Sarah’s arms while Whitney Houston’s I will Always Love You plays.
Joyce, it’s just hair. Hair cannot kill- OH MY GOD! THE HAIR IS ATTACKING ME!
Don’t worry, it’s just Cousin Itt trying to hug you.
Joyce, quit stalling.
Joyce is hoping that Sarah will shower her with love.
Instead she has fear wash over her.
Well, she to rinse from her fears.
And it’d be best sooner than lather.
Water the consequences if she doesn’t?
She’ll have to fight Sarah in a Suds-ent Death match.
I dunno. This entire thing might end up being a wash.
Don’t you mean down the drain?
C’mon, Bickendan. Don’t be such a wet blanket.
yeah, stop trying to rain on our parade
I love you all
I dove you too.
Sarah = Nicole Watterson
Joyce = Gumball Watterson
That’s my take.
At least they’re not the other kind of ‘tadpoles’ Joyce.
Just be glad it wasn’t the Invaders or the Thing.
Looks like Clayface was taking a shower.
You have my sandals.
This why I wear thongs in the shower and bleach the shower floor every so often.
And my Axe body spray.
And my Hair Bow
And my glock.
AND MY AXE!
AND MY KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL JAPANESE!
It must have SOME practical use.
Sure it does. I just don’t know what.
It’s part of the preparation to move to Japan of course!
Okay look Sarah, these shower stalls are clearly extremely scary and dangerous and Joyce is still really in a fragile state of mind. Clearly what needs to happen is for you to shower with her so she feels safe. This is said entirely out of concern for Joyce and not in any way a desire for fan service and/or roomie shipping.
Agreed. Also, they should do their part to conserve water.
Yesssss~
Shower with her~
Do it, do it, DO IT!!!
<3 <3 <3
Hush! He said that this wasn’t an attempt at shipping! Don’t act like it is, creepo!
Why yes – having a recent near-rape victim who is a professed non-lesbian be placed in a highly sexualized lesbian sort of situation with the woman who shares the room she sleeps in – that would be excellent therapy!
Exactly!
How can Sarah say no to that face?
Step 4: pick you up and toss you in there.
Step 5: Cut a hole in a box.
Step six: Profit!
“Sandals” is not spelled “sandles.”
Sarah named her sandals “Sandless” because she never goes to the beach in them. She has another pair named Sandfuls. She DOES go to the beach in those.
Hey, I’m on Joyce’s side here. This sort of crap is the reason I never wanted a dorm with a communal bathroom again. One should NOT have to wear sandals just to take a shower…
It should be also noted that I go to an art college, so sometimes the shower floors, in addition to collecting hair and other lovely bodily items, sometimes contained rather…interesting materials.
I’m still wondering who thought a ton of small rocks would go down the shower drain easily.
Assuming that ‘thought’ thing went on’s where you’re making your error…
Agreed. Communal showers are *disgusting*. Though you’d think Sarah might have suggested sandals sooner…
Why doesn’t Joyce have her own sandals?
Why would Joyce, who is afraid of shower-hair, be willing to wear sandals that have touched someone else’s feet?
Looks like Joyce wants Sarah to be her Shower Buddy, since Billie declined the honor.
And that’s about half the reason I’m glad to have moved into the college apartments.
Clearly you have an infestation of Tribbles.
GET ME A KLINGON HUNTING PARTY ON THE DOUBLE!!
Do they still sing songs of the Great Tribble Hunt?
Yes, but still no one will listen.
…I keep thinking of gremlins.
They probably fed theirs after midnight and got it wet in the shower, RUN!
I’d probably wear stilts.
Sarah? Please slap her.
At this point, I’m not sure if there’s even any more character combinations left for me to ship.
JoeXMike?
I just vomited a little in my mouth.
Where Mike spends months and years turning Joe gay, only to turn round and tell Joe he imagined the entire thing because Mike’s never been gay.
THE FEELS! D:
Has Joyce not showered this entire time? I realize that only like a week has gone by in DoA time, but I still feel like this conversation should have happened already…
Ask and ye’ shall receive
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/hair/
Weiner Mange
I was thinking that myself
Don’t give her your flip flops. It’s not worth the Toe fungus infection. 😉
I didn’t know communal showers in college were a thing! I feel lucky for going to a college where the dorms had every two rooms joined by a common bathroom! Only ever had to worry about your roommate and the two other folks in the other room!
Oh, believe me, sometimes that’s PLENTY to worry about. My first roommate tried to flush a toilet paper tube, flooded the entire bathroom with septic water which he then left for a week.
I hated the communal showers we had in college. Always filthy and hairy. I would have thought they would be better now though. I mean it’s been **mumble** years. I guess some things just don’t change.
In panel 3, Joyce is praying to the Old Testament god.
Er, panel 3 zero-based, (ie: panel 4). I’ve been doing too much programming lately…
Why doesn’t Joyce have sandals already? Isn’t that standard practice for community showers in college?
Wait! Does that mean she hasn’t showered yet this semester?
I can’t feel bad for Joyce when the communal showers on my floor were notorious for people defecating in them. After opening a shower stall to see a single turd just lying there on top the drain, nothing else – especially something as simple hair – can really phase you. (The problem was so bad that flyers were placed all around the hall threatening to fine everyone on the fourth floor if whoever was doing it didn’t stop. That did not deter the culprit.)
Man, I feel really privileged right now. In my college dorms, all the rooms were single-occupancy en-suite, so I had a bathroom to myself. 😀
No, step three: Give her an industrial size spray bottle filled with a liquid ammonia cleaner.
Step 4: ??????
Step 5: Profit!!!!!!!
Joyce would have a conniption if she ever went to boot camp. >> Nothing more fun than rushing 80 girls through one (giant) shower in fifteen minutes.