Its all about communication Sept 20th

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:32 am

Well, it seems like somebody has some steam to vent

hot enough to scald too i bet

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:38 am

Maybe it's that time of the month?

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:37 am

Penny Kaboom, Penny Kaboom.
Angsty teenager who spouts death and doom. . .

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:07 pm

Squeaky Bunny wrote:Penny Kaboom, Penny Kaboom.
Angsty teenager who spouts death and doom. . .

I remember those.

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:23 pm

Yep, silly girl doesn't know her mother would be happy just to hear her rant about that mystery meat in the school cafeteria...

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:46 pm

I somehow get the feeling every single person on the planet missed the point.

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:38 pm

What, that Penny was absolutely correct in everything she said? It's true in all too many families.

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:44 pm

For all who missed the point, I suggest you take a look at SirBob's post at this thread.

*bows* Just doing my part to direct people to the right place...

Celidah the Bardess · Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:05 pm

I got it! I got it!

Until this comic, it was all fun and games for me...and then I looked at this one and went, "Oh. Right."

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:22 am

StrangeWulf13 wrote:For all who missed the point, I suggest you take a look at SirBob's post at this thread.

*bows* Just doing my part to direct people to the right place...

To quote Tommy Lee Jones from "The Fugitive"

"I don't care"

I had a rough teen life and never ascted like Penny.

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:11 pm

RHJunior wrote:I somehow get the feeling every single person on the planet missed the point.

The point is she was communicating. How many parents want to hear that kind of communication.

But she's right. Too many parents try to do all their parenting before 5 and after 13, leaving out a HUGE chunk.

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:36 pm

This post contained a rant. Let's just say I was having a bad day or something.
It's gone now. Nothing to see, move along...

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:41 pm

20-20 hindsight.

Mutant for Hire · Post by **Mutant for Hire** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:58 pm

Actually, Lily just did extremely well. She just got Penny to discuss what was really bothering her. Now Lily can talk to their mom about what is going on here. And our author here reminds us that there are in fact two sides to a story. Yes, Lily's mom has some reasons to worry about Penny. And from Penny's vantage, she has some legitimate reasons to complain about their mother.

From the sound of it, Penny's mom took Penny for granted for too many years. Took it for granted that whenever she wanted to spend time with Penny, she could have Penny's attention. And took it for granted it wasn't any big deal to blow off her daughter when she was too busy. And like all moms, she got a sense of control from Penny wanting her mother's attention.

Then one day Penny stopped talking to her mom, stopped wanting her mom's attention. All of a sudden her mom suddenly feels like she's lost leverage with her daughter. And for that matter, adolescents are not children. Neither are they adults, they are an uneasy mixture of adult and child traits along with a few other things. Penny's mom is probably trying to order Penny around like a child and Penny isn't taking any of it.

And of course if Penny isn't going to her mom for attention, there's a fear that old gramps may be filling the gap. Not too likely, but Penny's mom is all of a sudden starting to notice her daughter for probably the first time in years and isn't liking what she sees. From Penny's vantage, she's been here all this time. Her mom could have paid attention at any time, established communication and trust and failed to and now she wants to make up for all the lost years like they never happened.

In the end, Lily has the unenviable task of telling her mom that she made some mistakes with Penny and she's going to have to start working on building a relationship with Penny from scratch. Penny is going to have to work on matters from her end as well, but in the end they're going to have to give up an adult/child relationship and work on an adult/adult relationship here. Not that Penny is an adult, but she's going to be one in due time. Penny's mom is going to have to deal with that.

Deflare · Post by **Deflare** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:02 pm

Hmm... Even my skeptical, devil's-advocate mind can't find anything wrong with either Penny's rant or Mutant for Hire's interpretation. Bravo!

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:28 pm

Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

"Gawd I love that girl! Is she up for adoption?"

Somber

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:18 am

Now can we use the SMILEX gas on her?

Somber Cat · Post by **Somber Cat** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:19 pm

Don't you dare touch, gas, drug or therapy away that wonderful intelligent perceptive creative mind of hers! That girl is a gem. An intellectual and creative jewel. I can only dream of what she'll accomplish in a few years time.

"It helps that she's cute as hell too."

Somber

Wallaroo_Blacke · Post by **Wallaroo_Blacke** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:30 pm

Ugh... I think I'll try to defuse a bomb
(preferably a 4000 lb blockbuster) than
to ask THAT person how HER day went.

Penny (not to mention everyone else, considering
how quickly people to to go off on others... doing
thier best imitation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki...)

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:16 pm

This is yet another case of people desperately searching for something right in front of them, out in the open, etc..

Wallaroo_Blacke wrote:. . .doing
thier best imitation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. . .

I prefer Bikini.