This always happens to me when I go from a roommate situation to living on my own: First I start showering a little less. Brushing my hair’s not as big a priority. Shaving becomes less frequent. I stop making my bed. Clothes start getting left on the couch, dishes left in the sink. I stop wearing pants. All this becomes more and more comfortable to the point that I have to double check when I leave the apartment that I’m “presentable” to the public at large. It’s a miracle that I haven’t really wandered around outside in my underwear, but I’ve come close.
This happen to you BOTreaders?
*LOL*
hey, Insectoid, happy this one earned an LOL from you!
and check you out – (you know what you just did) you just earned the Shades of Firsting! wear them well: at least you’ll have something on should you wander outside without clothing:
😎
Ahahaha… the Cornfather is very evil. XD
yes. very.
“Say… do you feel a draft?”
by the time bot does, it’ll probably be too late, Insectoid.
While I leave dishes in the sink and have to remind myself to shower I’m way to paranoid to leave my apartment without getting dressed first.
so far, my paranoia and obsessive nature has saved me from this kind of embarrassment, too, GB. but one day, i fear i’ll let my guard down and… well, i can only hope it doesn’t happen on a day i’m going to work.
Once when I was 13 years old I almost walked out of the house in my long johns. But to be fair, I was new to cold weather so it was my first winter wearing them. I probably forgot to put something else one because it felt like I was already wearing pants.
heheh. i’m happy you noticed your mistake before you walked outside, Saeed! 13’s a horrible age for something like that to happen, had you been seen. 🙂
I’ve never left the house without wearing pants, but I have answered the door in my boxers before. LOL! Ah, memories, good memories. 😉
on purpose, Richtpt? or on accident? 😉
at least we know if JB is a boxers or briefs guy right? BTW Boxers can double as shorts so it’s not too embarrassing if you go outside in em
exactly, Jiro Maeda – i almost put bot in some boxers but i needed him to be wearing something that could be immediately identified as underwear. plus, the sight gag is pretty funny. but for the record, he switches between boxers, briefs and boxer-briefs at random. 🙂
ahh… if only XD
So far, I went from parents to roommates, and I’ve hardly ever gotten that kind of freedom. I do when they are out of the apartment though… and then I wear my loungin shorts and do whatever I want… until about five minutes before they’re due home, at which point, I do dishes and laundry and dinner before they find out XD
yeah, i was too self-conscious when i first moved out of my parents’ house and into a dorm in college, JeweledRose. some guys would just walk around shirtless or in their underwear, but i never felt comfortable doing that until i actually had my own place. and even then it took a while. heheh.
I have to say, coming from your having Japanese ancestry, I would make the guess that your shoes are by the door, and very easy to put on. With that said, and that I have to bend over to tie my shoes, thereby noticing if I’m sans sansabelts or not, just how in the Ache EE double toothpicks can you not notice your naked knees?
even though i’m half japanese, i’m not very good at following tradition, Pat wolfman dude! 🙂 and while i do walk around mostly barefoot in my apartment, i wear slippers a lot of the time, too, which is probably what bot’s doing now.
I can top that. Once I saw a guy at a Wendy’s drive thru in nothing but a thong. I used to work a Wendy’s drive thru. I asked and he said that he knew what he was doing.
what!? a thong!!? yikes! i hope that wasn’t just his fashion sense, Noramil, and that perhaps he was high or mental? ah, well. i don’t think bot (and therefore, I) could pull off wearing a thong.
It was not his fashion sense, and he was completely sane. He told me that he just felt like wearing a thong. The upside to all this is that he had some pretty badass tatoos all over his chest. I mean he wasn;t built or anything, his tatoos were just that good.
I’ve heard that there are people who like to drive naked…so, maybe he is one of those people but thought he should be decent for the drive-through?
how considerate of him, theBean.
hmm. i guess sometimes a dude just feels like wearing a thong.
I guess so.
Ah, The Cornfather is a true friend.
possibly getting bot back for that *slap* back in JEFBOT.459, Striker?
Don’t worry, Jeff… I think you’re far too tightly wound to let this happen in real life. 🙂
As for JEFbot, going without pants is a comics meme practiced by no less than Wallace Wells, so he should be proud to be in such company!
you’d be surprised, Kim! sometimes i get so deep into my own head (especially when i’m alone with my own thoughts) i forget what i’m doing and what’s going on around me.
and as for wallace – that’s some good company to be around!
Bad Cornfather! You do not let friends walk around in the undies.
you tell him, 52pickup! bad Cornfather!
Ooooo Cornfather has a nasty nasty grin on his face. 😀
heheh. that he does, TCG.
If Cornfather really wanted to be nasty, he’d suggest an activity that didn’t cost money. That way, Jefbot couldn’t catch himself by reaching into pockets that aren’t there for his wallet.
Also, I’m surprised nobody else pointed out how much worse this would be if Jefbot was a nudist.
What I think would be even worse, would be if jefbot was so sick, that a case of skidmarks would be evident. Then the cornfather could be blamed for being Machiavellian.
skid marks, Pat? ewWWwww. bot’s not that far gone. at least not yet. 😉
Well, I didn’t mean that far gone into the world of bachelor lazyness. I was making a suggestion for a bad case of flu, stomach flu and serious upper respiratory infection as well. You know, don’t you, the 101 temp, can’t talk without the stopped up New Jersey nasal colliqualisms, nasal drips down to your belt buckle. That kind of sick.
There is something else. In panel one, we can see Jefbot locking the door to the domicile. In panel two and three, we do not see the keys anymore. Where did they go, where did they go?
Yup. That’s what I was wondering too.
don’t even ask, Pat wolfman dude (and HiEv.) you don’t wanna know. 😉
actually, that’s why i didn’t show them in panel 2. but then forgot about ’em in panel 3. will have to fix that.
NO. I forbid you to go Orwellian. You do not have ze Smith.
it’s the wonderful thing about publishing first on the web, Pat – i can fix and edit stuff to my heart’s content. well, at least until it goes to print, and then it’s set in stone.
But, doesn’t all of this stuff drop down from one of those little vacuum tubes into a receptacle at a desk where everyone is dressed in little gray outfits that would make Kim Jong Il weep with jealously that take everything that has been printed (including the interwebs) and verify the material according to Ministry of Truth? Or was it the Dentistry of Tooth?
maybe when they get to the restaurant, the Cornfather will suggest someplace else to go, and then another place, and then another place. at least until bot gets picked up by the police or berated by an old lady, Rainey. 🙂
There is always the laughed at by the little kid who just read “The Emporer’s new Clothes.”
true. which would get bot into even more trouble when the cops show up. 😉
“This happen to you BOTreaders?”
To a degree. Luna knows I’m not the neatest person in the world, and I tend to procrastinate when it comes to the household chores; but I have learned that putting away my clothes after doing the laundry, keeping the floor clear and vacuumed, and a few other things can work wonders for making life a bit easier in a small apartment like mine. So, yeah; to the untrained eye my living space probably looks a bit chaotic (though I’m pretty sure that I can tell you where any given item is to within about a square meter), but these days it looks a lot less like it was tossed by The Mob than it used to.
Also, I take my shower every day (twice if I get hot and sweaty), and I have some around-the-house clothing that I wear if I’m not going out.
you mean the “tossed by The Mob” look isn’t en vogue anymore, r61? i’ll have to do some picking up around here, i guess. and although i can get pretty messy, i have to take at least one shower a day, too.
I live alone, and while I can’t say I’ve ever walked out the door less than “presentable”, I’ve been guilty of practicing old habits even when company is over. Most notably using the restroom. Usually I leave the door open while I do my business, but recently I- more than once- did the same with other people in my apartment. Doesn’t help that I live in a studio apartment, so everything is within 20 feet of everything else.
That being said, if I KNOW I have company coming over, I kick into “cleaning frenzy” mode. Bed gets made, laundry gets put away, piles of random stuff go into their appropriate places… hell, you could have a fancy dinner straight off the toilet if you wanted. Of course then the instant they’re gone everything reverts to the way is was: a blissful, yet controlled chaos.
i think “controlled chaos” is a good description for how my old apartment in sherman oaks was, Alexander. it was just so tiny and i had so much junk that i had boxes and stuff everywhere and not a corner or nook was empty. i’ve since learned to hide things better, i think.
as for “doing your business” in front of people: hmm. can’t say i’ve done that. at least not while sober. 😉
I tend to keep that sort of thing to my room. The rest of what ever place I live is always nice and clean, with the bedroom locked off to company, and normally a massive mess of games, books, and used clothes.
that’s good that you can compartmentalize your space, Z. that’s my problem, especially when i have roommates: all my stuff tends to not want to be contained, and creeps out and takes residence throughout the domicile.
When I started rooming with people in collage, while me and my then room mate kept our food in the kitchen we sort of treated our own personal rooms as mini apartments of our own. The main room a living room/kitchen was treated like the play ground where we only really brought anything out for “public use” for a couple hours before hiding it back in our own separate rooms again, checking for scratches and damage the unknown [insert name or phrase] I/he were forced to live with may have done. Eventually the paranoia weakened, but the habit stuck.
Living on your own can be so liberating in so many ways. My thing was cooking.
When I first moved into a place alone I would cook nice, homecooked meals. As the years went on the meals went from homecooked, to not as homecooked, to canned or TV dinner, to ordering out three days a week and eating the leftovers the next day.
Now I’m married and my wife cooks all the homecooked meals I’m used to, if she didn’t I can’t even imagin what I’d be eating now.
i can imagine what you’d be eating now cuz it’s most likely my weekly diet, TPC: a mix of fast food, ramen, leftovers from mom and dad, kraft macaroni and cheese, chili and cereal.
Good morning Botiverse!
I do this now! Mr. Pixie can always tell where I’ve been when I get home because he follows the trail of clothes. I don;t make my bed everyday…why? I’m crawling back into it when I get home. I’m was not put on the Earth to clean. My mother is mortified by this. She is a neat freak, like neurotic about it. I can let it go for a while but when it finally does get to me, supa cleaning girl go!
heheh. i wasn’t put on this earth to clean either, Pixie! *high five!* and i do the same thing – i let it go for a while, then clean like a maniac when it gets too gross/crazy.
I’m happy to say that the only time I have left the house without being fully clothed is in anxiety dreams. However, I constantly have to battle against being a slob. And usually being a slob wins, much to my husband’s dismay. 😛
i remember having those dreams when i was a kid, Shanna – mostly going to school with no pants or whatever – but i haven’t had one of those in a long time. now my anxiety dreams consist of being onstage and not knowing my lines. and battling against my inner slob is a daily struggle for me, too. 😛
JB, this one’s for your own good.
-pulls a Tshirt cannon-
I re-engineered it to fire pants, whether they go on correctly or break your collar bone is a matter of how still you stand.
*catch!* thanks, Anime fan! needed those. now you just need to re-engineer that cannon to fire the pants directly onto people.
Now now, can’t get TOO ahead of ourselves. Faust is a genius, but no miracle worker.
Im the oposite, when I lived at home, I knew all was being taken care of – sorry mom – and was a lazy ass. Anytime im away for any given time Im completely indenpendent and all house chores. I guess I can see the difference if they arent done and I dont like it. Or some such.
i can tell you – i definitely appreciate my mom doing the laundry and cleaning up when i lived at home, Maryz. just keeping myself, my clothes and my apartment clean takes up so much of my free time! i don’t know how my mom did it with a full time job as a teacher, a husband and some hyper kids.
do u have to have pants to be served at food establishments?? >_< thats pretty messed up though lmao
i think that’s a requirement at most places, MrSnow, but there are some outdoor places near the apartment that might not notice if bot seats himself. no telling how long he’ll be cavorting around town in his undies before someone notices, much to the Cornfather’s amusement, no doubt.
closest thing that ever happened to me was a few weeks ago. i was in a camp in northern PA @1900′ elevation, sleeping in a tent. and was getting ready to go to the family reunion. didn’t want to get my reunion clothes dirty so i didn’t change till ready to go, but an accident forced me to change pant early but i had to shave so didn’t change shirts… and i ended up forgetting to change shits and went to the reunion in my pj shirt(which was an old PT shirt my bro gave me years ago)
ha! did your pjs have little clouds or bears on them, Nobodyy? and how far into the reunion did you get before you found out about your mistake? hopefully, people just thought you were making some strange fashion choices. 😉
nah, it was just a t shirt, but i felt kinda weird wearing that particular one in public. my pjs(if it’s cool enough to wear them) consist of a tshirt, and a pair of pajama bottoms or the PT(physical training) shorts that came with the shirt. i like that shirt for sleeping because it’s real light. t-shirts just fell better to me than the traditional pajama tops.
Happens to me ALL the time, Jeff! I am a jeans, under-shirt, and baseball hat guy through and through. Shaving is a once a week thing (fortunately, I’m not a hairy guy and can get away with it), and showering and deodorant is for when I’m with Kelly, my girlfriend. Sometimes, not even then 🙂
nice! wish i could be that casual, Menapace – if i even go a day without showering, i tend to break out. i am able to go all week without shaving, though, since my asian genes don’t grow the hair out very quickly. 🙂
and i’d love to ask your gf what she thinks of your hygiene choices. heheh.
Best.
Comic.
Ever.
woo! thanks, DK!
but with your “Snow Angel” attire, you’ve got bot beat by a country mile. ;D
HAHAHAHAHAHA Shhhhhhhh!!!!! LOL
heheheh. my lips are sealed. 😉
A week ago, I finally finished a two-year project.
I was so beat/dazed/rudderless/zoned, that I wandered out of the house, down the street, and into the local coffee shop for a celebratory mocha in hunter-orange flannel pyjama pants and a tee-shirt that proclaimed to everyone who saw it that a) I have questionable taste in suggestive puns and b) I shouldn’t be allowed to paint walls.
Thank God this is a college town.
yes – thank god for college towns, Sarah W! they put up with a lot. when i lived in the dorms at college, i’d go to class in pajama bottoms all the time. it started by accident, but it got to the point that i just didn’t care.
now i need some “hunter-orange flannel pajamas.” i’m intrigued about your pun-and-paint-laden shirt.
I tend to forget certain necessities… I remember to shower, change and get ready to go out for the day, then I’ll remember that I don’t have work that day, it’s currently 7 am and my bed is saying ” hey you! Get back under the comforters before you hurt yourself it’s dangerous outside”.
Occasionally I’ll forget breakfast, since I don’t always have time for coffee, and I was usually reminded by smoking to do both.
My smoking and eating schedule was the same for years, so since I don’t smoke anymore I sometimes end forget lunch as well and I’ll wonder around 6 pm why I want to eat everything.
As for forgetting clothes, yes I sometimes forget a shirt or pants(never both), when letting my dog out in the morning.. But the way i see boxers are like shorts, and I have an awesome tattoo on my chest so everyone wins!
ooh, i hate when that happens, Satoshieyes! although then it’s a great relief when you figure out you don’t have to go to work. just the opposite happened to me a couple days ago: i woke up thinking it was saturday, then realized it was only tuesday. BUH.
so what does your tattoo look like? we must know of the awesomeness.
The four elements and the five major religious symbols across my back.. You know thunder bolts and lightening very very freighting things..
Actually just tornadoes, a wave, fire and a tree going along the center
Frightening*
ah. magnifico! that does indeed sound awesome, Sato! 😀
It took me 2 years to have it figured out and drawn up, but I wanted something that was important to me( I am secretly a theology nerd..).
Guy at the tattoo shop has it displayed on his wall and considers it one of his favorite pieces.
nice! 😀
I have never walked out of the house without pants. have worn a hoodie so big it looked like I wasn’t wearing pants cuz I was wearing shorts, but that’s as close as I’ve gotten. And me and My roommates walk around and leave things everywhere anyway.
oversized hoodies = very sexy, dj! so what kinds of things do you and your roomies leave around? trash or like, cool stuff?
shoes and coffee cups get left around mostly. And clothes left in the dryer
ah.
Long time reader, first time commenter, love the comic, I laughed at this one yesterday when I read it the first time, then read it again today and noticed something…
What happened to Bot’s keys between panels 1 and 2!? D: Where do you keep your keys, dude? The only thing I can think of… Well… Let’s just say it sounds painful. O_o
your readership is appreciated, Harry! and i’m happy you felt the urge to leave a comment this time. 😀
and don’t worry, bot didn’t place his keys anywhere… uh, “unseemly.” heheh. basically, just an artist error. i’ll fix it when i get a chance.
I had to actively sit on my first instinct to tease you with a comment on the garments I do leave the house without sometimes (deliberately).
In reality, though, I’m always hyper-aware of my body and everything pertaining to it, so there’s never ever been a risk of me accidentally leaving without essential garments. I have run outside at -40 to start my car in my pajamas without a coat, but that’s partially to wake myself up fast without resorting to coffee. The slightest change of air temperature against naked skin gets noticed, so I’m never really worried about leaving without pants or a shirt.
HA! thanks (i think) for the discretion, T!
and, yeah: running out in -40 would definitely wake me up, too. fortunately, i’ve never even come close to having that experience. 😉
I decided not to blow any of your mental processes today, as much as listening to the resulting sputtering makes my day… 😉 And I swear, someday I will get you to Alaska and into the -40 cabin at the local “here’s Alaska’s history” park. It’s a great way to experience -40 without having to live in it.
Of course, all of that said, I was something of a nudist when I lived alone. I kept my apartment nice and warm and preferred being in just my skin or light undergarments. So any knock on the door resulted in panic as I grabbed for the closest clothing. Luckily for me, I lived out in the sticks, relatively speaking, and didn’t get much unexpected company.
*sputter* *sputter* …
Ahhh, there we go! 😀
As a kid I wore tights or stockings and really long shirts or sweaters and I have more than once walked out without noticing that I was not wearing pants. Usually no one noticed or the one or two folks that did were close friends that knew my habits. Since the change in style, the most I have done is walked out without shoes on, and once without a bra, in a rather thin shirt. That is much more likely to happen than not wearing pants since I find undergarments more pesky than anything else. Especially socks. Absolutely hate socks.
i used to hate wearing socks, too, #include – barely wore any in junior high – but now they’re a must; my feet turn instantly hard and callous-y if i don’t wear ’em. as for undergarments – while i can appreciate someone who doesn’t have need of them, they’re are a must for me; chafing and zippers are just a couple of the dangers i fear if i leave home without some layer of protection. 😉
I think the worst thing I’ve done is answer the door while pretty much asleep, and actually listen to whatever the Jehovah’s Witness was saying and accepted their pamphlet. They kept coming back because I listened to them. I have no idea what I looked like when did answer the door because I don’t even remember it. I just woke up to a strange pamphlet on my table and wondered how that got there, lol. Had they not ever come back, I wouldn’t have ever known I did that. Ah, good times…
ha! i think i’ve gone on autopilot a couple times like that, too, theBean. in fact, i think i’ve gone a whole day in that state while at work.
Yes, this happens to me a lot. I have to keep my appearance in my active thoughts all of the time, else I’d be lounging at work in my boxers Al Bundy style. =P
i hear ya, Twig – i let my guard down once during a casual day at work, and found myself wearing a Penny Arcade Fruit F****r shirt, which would not be cool with HR. needless to say, i ended up wearing a zipped up jacket the rest of the day.
This hasn’t happened to me yet, but now that I’ve seen this, it probably won’t (or, karma will get back at me for saying that and it will happen…).
Anyway, awesome comic!
thanks, Soul Man! let me know if karma catches up to ya. 🙂
same thing happens to me during summer… its so hot at night, that I have to sleep almost naked, and my family has to shake me awake and push me into my room to get dressed… (did I just write that…)
yep! ya did wirite that, DAS!
and btw, that’s a conundrum for me – i can’t sleep when warm/hot but i can’t sleep without a shirt on, either. makes for many a sleepless night in the summer. 😛
Question: Have you accessed the page http://thepunchlineismachismo.com ?
just checked it out from your link, Pat wolfman dude! good stuff! 😀
Nope, it doesn’t happen to me. First, I enjoy being clean to much to ever go more than 2 days without showering (that, and my scalp will start to itch so much after about 36 to 40 hours that I couldn’t sleep if I wanted to until I get a good shower in again). Second, I keep my keys on a swivel clip on a belt loop on my pants, in fact unless I’ve just done laundry that’s where I look for them, wish gives me an excellent reminder to be dressed before I head out. Third, I refuse to put on clean clothes after a shower, as I barely have enough clothes to make it through a week I have a very strong incentive to wash them weekly. Fourth, even when my ex and I were still together I was usually the one doing the dishes and laundry, even though she didn’t have a job (hell, I usually had to remind her to take a shower as well). Fifth, I know it’d scar people for life if they saw me when I wasn’t properly clothed, and I don’t want to cause such psychological harm to anyone.
glad you have so many safeguards for keeping decent, Razmoudah! and i feel your itchy pain – if i don’t take a shower at least every 24 hours, i start to break out. like, red bumps on my shoulders and face that get worse every hour that ticks by. my theory is that i’m somewhat allergic to my own skin or oils or whatever, so they must be wiped clean as often as possible.
Showering a little less?!! Are you insane?!! I’ll be dead before I skip any of my several daily showers!
Honestly. It’s one of the reasons I reaturned to Argentina after spending a year in University in the good ‘ol USA. My roomates were clean, but NOT as much as they should. They would go out to have breakfast in their PJs!!
Most latinamericans will kill themselves before even daring to. You go out on your best. And I don’t mean getting designer clothes or anything like that. We just love being clean, use deodorant and cologne (perfum and makeup in the case of the ladies!) and we don’t leave the house unless we’e presentable at all times.
I was never lucky enough to see any of my roommates wandering outside in their underwear, though. That would have been a sight! (and a good video for youtube!!!).
glad to hear you have such great hygiene and style, JustCrusingBy! i must admit, although i’m definitely “clean” most of the time, i tend to go out with more of a disheveled look when going to the movies or dinner with friends. i’m sure there are many times when my “presentability” would be in question. 🙂
Yep! I’ve had nightmares that start like that! Hilarious as always!!!