Gambling is no good

lba on April 19, 2008

You know it's time to just get something over with when your coworkers are taking bets on how long it's going to take for it to happen. At my first job we used to take bets on how long each newbie would last before either quitting from the physical demands of the work ( It was a logging company. Only the second most dangerous job on earth. ) or pissing off the company owner ( Working with him was the first most dangerous job on earth. ). Usually people only stayed a couple of days to help out and worked other jobs instead, but on the rare occasion someone was supposed to stay, bets were on. I never personally took part in these bets, but I heard that they could be quite lively ( These are also the kind of guys who thought nothing of standing under a 80 ft tall oak tree that weighed about 20 tons falling, they don't worry much about anything. ). During the year or so I worked there I think a couple of bets were also made on when the local cow herd's next attempt to kill me would be ( Imagine the running of the bulls with one person running and 4 laughing coworkers rolling around. ). Thankfully I can say they never quite did get me and I still live to tell the story. But I now know exactly why I will never be a gambling sort of person. I'm too worried I'll be betting my own life against the cows. And I guarantee you Gary Larson never had any experiences like I did, otherwise he wouldn't have found them so damn funny.

I tried doing a background again on this one and it looks very Farside-ish to me with my squiggly lines but I love The Farside so I can live with that. I think this one pretty well encompasses all my biggest influences in humor and art too. I'll leave it up to you guys to guess what they might be.