Sunday walks

Nick is concerned how Judy’s parents will receive him. Perhaps with good reason, after all, even in Zootopia not all animals accept inter-order relationships.

Yeah yeah, Judy was too upset to parse the literal meaning of the expression from its more commonly used colloquial interpretation. You know how, when under stress, people have a tendency to narrow their focus and emphasize things that might seem strange to an outside observer? An instructor I had in university told me about a call he had to the site of a workplace accident: A carpenter had fallen to his death from a tall scaffolding. They arrive at the site and ask where the body is, and the men there respond “we’ve buried him”. They had gotten so distraught at the sudden loss of their friend, and became fixated on the idea that they had to do something, so they dug a hole right there at the worksite and buried the body. Lucky all they had were shovels or they might have embalmed him first.

I find I really identify with the poor vet in the middle panel, if only because of how he seems to misinterpret the situation for want of context. Despite how it might seem this comic wasn’t really meant to be funny, hate crime and random violence are not laughing matters. Also I’m probably not a very good writer. Better not try to write about difficult subjects then, huh??

Incidentally I learned a new expression from a helpful anon the other day, “crab bucketing”. I had to google it.