your stories are amusing.. tell us more!

Well, that one's done... I was plagued with forgetting my keys, I thought I'd found a solution, it turned out not to be a solution but I DID pay a lot more attention to my keys after that. :)

Ya know keys seem to find the interesting places to hide.. I know I've misplaced mine go insane looking for them and their right next to my keyboard..

Ahahahhahahaha! Poor Geners! Well, at least you knew where the keys -were-.

I've always loved your Huzzah pieces! It would be so cool to have a publication like that still goin'.

Yeah. it sure would. I got invited to contribute to Rowrbrazzle, and that *is* a long-running mag, but the heyday of the ones like Huzzah are past, now.

Maybe you could do these as Saturday comics on your website.

I've got something different planned for the website :) These early Huzzah stories are perfect for my FA readership.

I've had a similar problem like that, except with my work keycard. I used to always have it in my wallet, and carry the wallet in my scrubs (like doctors wear) so I knew where it was at all times. Recently I got one of those clip things with the string and put my keycard on it, but sometimes I forget to grab it when I leave for work, and not realize it til I get to work.

Oh, wow.. badges and keycards for work are a whole nother story with me...

That bad, huh? lol

I've been a tech for my entire working career, and ny first jobs were at important government and high-profile company accounts. Which meant multiple badges and multiple places where they were required. >_<

Oh. Well, thankfully they don't require that at my work. I work at one of the three facilities that our company owns, but there's only about 40 people working there, so everyone knows everyone else, so badges aren't required, though you do need a keyboard to get to the animal areas, and a special key to get to the BSL-3 area (only people trained to enter and have been cleared by the FBI are allowed in there at all)

Thanks goodness you're posting those little stories..I'm sure liking them a lot.

Thanks ItaX :) I've always seen myself as a storyteller. Good stories mean as much to me as good art. ^_^

LOL that is one way to help remember your keys. I love your little stories Gene <3 (as well as epic ones, of course)

I use one of those things for my cellphone, it's a little tiny one (the clip), but the spring is pretty powerful, LOL. But I've never lost or dropped my cellphone (it's always in my pocket) so it's a good thing. C8 And it's badass because it has a Playstation logo on it.

The best thing about them is when someone's laying on the ground and you stand over them, if I drop my cellphone over their face, they think it'll hit, but the spring and such keeps it from doing so. So it's fun to watch them flip out.

*chuckle* You bungie your cellphone? ^_^

Yes, that's the perfect word for it, LOL.

lol well at least you didn't lose then down the toilet like my friend did, she didn't get them back XD

I fouled a brand new multi-tool that way. Dropped it into an unflushed toilet.

D.O.P.R

Oooh.. would I ever be flushed with horror if that happened to me >_<

*LOL*!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, that is HILARIOUS!!!

Only in retrospect <=)

True.

'course, Kitty isn't about to get wet! 'specially wearing all those clothes.

I might've waded in if it were the shallow end.

uh, couldn't you have just used ether the leaf skimmer or the rescue hook that usually hang on the fence to fish your keys out? or at least push them to the shallow end and fish them out that way? they have long enough pols to easily reach the bottom...
--Rick

Trust me, if I'd seen or could've spotted such poles or skimmers, I'd have used them. <=)

Don't I know how you feel! I used to forget my keys in my CAR all the time.

That was my frequent forgetful location.

What helped me was shirts with breast pockets.

I remember one time, I had been asked to go pick up lunch for myself and The Bun (we worked at the same place at the time).
We only had a 30min lunch and the McD's was a ways away, so I was in a hurry.
I drove down to the McDonalds with my iPod plugged into a little iPod-to-cassette-tape converter so I could have something better then the DJs to listen too.
I arrived at the place and immediately had to fight to extricate myself from the tangle of wires and buckles which connected my iPod to the car, me to the car, and my iPod to me.
Finally managing to get myself loose, I hurried inside, ordered a chicken sandwich for her and a chocolate shake and fries for myself (I learned long ago that McDs does not know how to make a bacon cheeseburger plain and after many other screw-ups decided that a shake and fries were the only meal I could trust them with).
I waited, noticing that a pair of teens who had entered right after me seem to stare at me.
I got the food, and hurried to the car since I was already running late.
Once I got to the car I found that not only had I left the keys in the ignition - the engine was still running...

I stood there, arms filled with bags of mediocre fast-food and marveling that I could have been so horribly absent-minded.
I debated with myself for a while as to what I should do. I didn't have any money to make a call, my cell phone was at home. I tried to ask a gentleman in the restaurant if I could use his phone, but he looked at me as if I was going to rob him, stuck his palm out toward me and told me NO in a rather frightened and disturbed tone of voice.
In the end, I had to break into my own car to unlock the rear door. Needless to say I felt terribly self-conscience. I knew that eventually I'd lock the keys in - but the circumstances were very unflattering.

And the worst part? My chocolate shake had chunks of strawberry in it. Chunks of real strawberry in a chocolate shake...

Not my best moment.

D.O.P.R

Ah, the irony; ah, the humor!

Many years ago, a friend and I produced a satirical comic strip for our college newspaper. We both agreed that real life was far more amusing and absurd than anything we could ever imagine.

That was my whole Huzzah story oeuvre ^_^

D'ohhhh!

I got to be the swimmer once, as a kid. I was in my trunks, waiting for the pool at Mom's office building to finish being cleaned and open up. As I sat there, a worker came up to me and asked me if I could dive to the bottom of the deep end. Seems he'd dropped his keys in. Well, long story short, I said yes I could, and I got his keys back and he thanked me.

So where were you this time? ^_^

I, uh, nipped off for a few minutes to get a soda. Sorry!

I like the look on your face.
A rare sight indeed.

It IS?

Some days it's the only look on my face O_O

But Unc! They fell in a pool, not a sewer! Surely there was some way to pick them from there, wasn't there? A long piece of wire?

None I could find!

No hardware store near there...?

*ahem* Moutos.. keys. In pool. Not in hand. No keys - no drive to hardware store.

Unc, "near" implied "walking distance". If you needed a car it wouldn't be near.

giggle, I like =)

I wish I could say I enjoyed losing my keys <=)

Poor Gene!! We still need to remeber of things but exemple like little kids!!

I've never had any trouble remembering these little moments :)

Wow It was late look at all these typos! I wanted to say: We need a lesson, sometime to learn things like little kids.

Ha ha ha, what a story, Gene !!! :D :D
Yes, that's the kind of adventure that helps solving some problems ;D

I almost titled the story "The Key to the Situation" ^_^

My keys were a lot harder to forget from then on. <=)

I got the joke - i just played it straight :)

You mean you didn't just strip off and dive into the water? It was only nine feet! I'd have been tempted when I was only 25 or 30!

On the other hand, maybe it was 55 in the shade and the water had dead bugs and leaves floating in it. Likely as not some kids would have made off with your pants and wallet while you were pearl diving too.

That, and I was at work, on call. <=)

Your face in the first panel here is priceless. XD

Well as I mentioned to another viewer, some days that's my only face. <=)

*chuckles*heavens. An yes I can relate to being a tidbit abstant minded at times, mostly in heat it easily boils my brain like eggs on a grill. I had a simular experience save it invovled a vaccum cleaner an a few unmentionable garments of clothing, needless to say I understand how that can feel at times