Hilarious and creepy...

Thiiis... Does this person consume anything of fun?!

lol silly XD !! ^v^

Typo in Ninevah's first speech bubble. You wrote bever instead of never

Got it! Thanks

Anytime.

To be fair, those decorative candies are absolutely disgusting ; 3 ;

It's a sure warning sign that "This is going to be the most uninteresting visit, like attending a funeral at a 1950's burger joint".

At least the food would be better!

If they were serving any.

The ones shaped like ribbon? The ones that dont melt? Ahh, yes. Granny candy!

Excuse me but I happen to like ribbon candy.... Unfortunately they don't make or sell it too much anymore..... :(

I see it at Family Dollar, usually around the holidays...

Yeah but that's the machine made stuff and that one does taste like crap but if you get the handmade ribbon candy that stuff is great.....

(nodnods) Not too many places have the handmade stuff anymore, alas.

The only stuff I know of was factory made stuff. Pretty icky

There is still some places that still makes handmade ribbon candy.....
http://www.shernnisonline.com/Handm.....-Candy_c44.htm
http://www.hammondscandies.com/

These guys makes the good stuff....

Hot holy mother of mud! They make sea foam candy! I have been looking for that for decades! Thank you!

See? These kids now of days don't know what real candy is anymore.....

They are always runnin around with their blue hair an their loud music an starbursts! I like the old fashioned hand made stuff, thank you again!

What I really miss is candy raisins... those were gooooood....

Ninevah, obsess much? XD

i can sympathize. XD its hard to keep a nice hope when everyones eating your Worther's and matting the towels

nice work

sorry "home". Dim lighting

x.x lordy

LOL! Yes that sounds like both of my half sisters to be honest. They also tell you how much "family" matters but it seems to only matter when you fit their mold for you.

Bwaahaaahaaa! Ninevah hasnt told her about the per-sheet daily accounting of the household toilet tissue yet!

As soon as she turns her back - USE THE TOWEL

Part 1 related: http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

Been there, done that. Ow.

Like a bad life raft!

Hard candies, decorative towels, and plastic slip covers?

Is Ninevah actually an 80-year-old grandmother?

My gosh, if everything is just decoration, then how does she live there?

Of course she mentioned little touches. So I guess she means anything left out in the open that is small or undesirable things that might change her home.

Wait, does Candy count as a thing added to her house as decoration?

Dear God, it's my mother's place...

Yeah, mine too. The glass is neither half empty nor half full... it's another damned glass she has to wash.

Is she hoping the Buck Stops Here?

Real experience. Ouch.

I have a Aunt who's the same way. Every thing in her house is for display, and she's OCD out the wazoo.

If everything's a decoration, just how much time they spend on cleaning all of it...

sad is i know people like this.... and their soo OCD about it i wont even go in to the lengths they flip out

"My home is a reflection of me."

....Lots of nice things you're not allowed to use....theirs joke in there somewhere.

Never been around too many vain people have you?

More than I care to remember.....V.V

Nice to look at, ain't too useful."

My goodness, happened to me as well.

I've actually stayed at a place where they even covered the carpets in plastic and shaved the pets..... Always woke up to a squeaking sound and then trying to pry yourself up from the plastic after heat and sweat glues you to it.....

As a lad, I'd encounter glass candy, shrug, take it off in a corner and use it as racetrack pylons for my Matchbox cars. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!

Candi knows WAY too many psychotic people...

I love that last panel.

You've met someone like this? Egads!

Ex boyfriends mom

Don't worry they have soap for you and will insist you use it all the time, along with that anti-bacteria gel that sits in every room.

Aaand that good feeling just turned weird.

I was a house sitter for a couple like this. Their house was full of antiques. They had just remodeled the bathroom, and I wasn't allowed to use the vanity, because they weren't sure if the oak top was waterproof.

And this is the leather-clad librarian's home? Ouch.

She is a total Domme.

So much so that she's also domming herself? There's a phrase -- "A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind." For Ninevah, it's not just her desk but her whole house!

Just can't help thinking of that Groucho quote…

"Go - and never darken my towels again!" 7@=Q

I guess I must be at least on this side of healthy then. Makes dusting real interesting!

False fronts are nothing new, should make you re-evaluate the worth of this 'friend'.

I think it's pretty safe to say everyone has had at least one of these experiences.

I know this, I haven't seen a full on example of this in years, but I know this. This seems to have been a trait of my elder aunts who gained a bit of wealth at the tail end of the Depression, and only relaxed enough to spend it after the war. (the people too old to have enlisted in WW2). I haven't seen the plastic wrapping though since the late 1960's. I do see a lot of the pristine house syndrome in slightly different contexts.

I half expect Candi to be awakened by a vacuum cleaner pushed by the Guatemalan maid that keeps the dust off the pretty display items.

Oh waht fun!!

Aha. I couldn't help but recall those decorative glass candies from Italy I saw at World Market one time. Not only are the darn things a lie, but what if one genuinely gets the munchies and everything's made of inedible materials? I mean, I still get bummed finding a dish of wax fruit. (Or the plastic kind.)

>this is based on real experience.

And I thought this was a purely English 'thing'. I never understood these people. At what point in their lives do they actually -live- in their homes?

It's like the beat up rusty car headed to the junk yard with a perfect back seat still covered in plastic... for goodness sake, enjoy it while it lasts and take off the plastic once the new car smell goes away.

And when she sit's down on the couch it goes 'squeak' and she slips off the protective cover.

Oh wow. Bet she has a cozy covering the Roomba robot, too -- don't want the dusting robot to get dusty :)

Feng Shui the hard way.

*flails arms* Warning Warning.

Those people are scary.

So this is the display model. Where's the live-in model?

...oh dear....

I was in a house like this only one time. The owner & my father had gone out of the living room (probably to a home office). She had said "Help yourself to some candy," as she left the room. There was a covered pedestal dish on a doily - the only item on the coffee table. It was baroque-styled in white glass. I quietly took off the lid. The white mints were sitting in columns and rows. I looked for a long time. Looked around the room. There was nothing in the room but plastic-covered furniture and lamps. Looked at the white glass cover in my hand. There was no dust on it anywhere. Not even in the white glass leaf-squiggles. I quietly put the lid back on.

OCD.

No, no. It's "CDO", with the letters in alphabetical order like they should be.

Hehehe, this is an interesting aspect to learn about this sexy librarian :p

I see you stayed at my Grandmothers house at some point!!

I've known people like this as well.

Never could understand it.

I'm diggin' this comic. :)

Thanx!

"Display" hand towels never made much sense to me, but...well, I expect things to be functional, not scotch-guarded.

Candi's like a guy in his girlfriend's house.

Oh hey. It's our parent's houses. Both my mom and your mom need to see this.

Ha! I know. The person I was thinking of was Curt's mom (this was before you knew me) who got all bent out of shape when I used the "decorative" towels in the guest bathroom.

Oh yeah, I remember you telling me that story. That's when I told you my mom was the exact same way.

Lol... I think we all know someone like that.

I am reminded of Stan Laurel eating wax fruit at Hardy's house. During the imevitable fracas between Hardy and his screen wife (his real marital relations were quite peaceful and amiable.), Mrs. Hardy discovers that Laurel has been eating the wax fruit and after that, refers to Laurel as a "wax eater". This was in the classic film "Sons of the Desert".