Corpse Run 300: I guess
I’m going to be at MoCCa Fest this Saturday (April 6th). I don’t have a table or anything, but I’ll be walking around checking stuff out, and maybe attending a panel or two! If you’re gonna be there and wanna say hi/punch me in the face, let me know on Twitter (@corpse_run) that day, and I’ll do my best to find you in the crowd!
Hope to see you there!
NEW LIVESTREAM UPDATE (April 5th, 8:20pm est):
Time Warner Internet is out across portions of Queens and Brooklyn right now, and after giving them a call I have been told that there’s no ETA for it being fixed. Unfortunately the stream will have to be canceled tonight.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
LIVESTREAM UPDATE:
Hey guys, the next livestream will be this Friday, April 5th at 10pm est! There will be doodling (post your suggestions in the comments), chatting, and some game playing afterwards. Neat!
Like last week, I’m gonna try to mix it up with the games I’m playing, so I’ll be diving into my Steam library to find something new!
The stream can be viewed either here or here.
See you then!
END LIVESTREAM UPDATE!
Woah! Do you know what this is? Today’s strip is the 300th strip of Corpse Run! JEEBUS!
Even though I probably said the same things when I hit the 200 strip mark, I’d just like to thank everyone who has had anything to do with the comic. Whether you’re a friend of mine who I bounce ideas off of, a family member that has resisted the urge to murder me, a livestream regular, sent me mail, participated in the Halloween costume contest, or a casual reader, you are a part of this comic and are a the biggest reason why I bother getting up in the morning.
So thanks.
Really, you guys mean a lot me.
Keep on being awesome!
On to regular story-posty time! My mother gave me a gift certificate to my local grocery store this week (possibly in reaction to Monday’s strip), so I figured I’d head over to grab something small just to see how the store would ring it up.
My purchase total was roughly three dollars and forty five cents. I handed the gift certificate to the cashier, who looked at it, puzzled.
She looked at me.
I… looked back, I guess.
She produced a walkie talkie from a shelf and called a higher-up.
In the few minutes that it took for the guy to arrive, the line behind me had grown considerably, and now I started to feel responsible for holding everything up. Anyway, the guy showed up, looked at the certificate, then at my purchase total, then me and said, “I can’t give you cash back.”
He was referring to what would be the remaining balance on the certificate.
Obviously he wasn’t going to give me cash back, and I was confused why he said that. “That’s completely understandable,” I responded.
“You know I can’t give you cash back,” he repeated, brows furrowing.
“I… didn’t expect you to.”
“I’m gonna write on the certificate your remaining amount,” he said.
Well, duh, I thought, that’s what every place that uses paper certificates does. The guy pulled out a walkie talkie of his own and called a manager.
More waiting; the line gets longer.
Some lady appears, takes the certificate and says, I kid you not, “I’m going to take this in the back and make sure it’s real.”
At that moment, it finally hit me; they thought I crafted a gift certificate and was buying something inexpensive so I can get a bunch of cash back.
These guys are jerks.
More waiting.
I felt pretty embarrassed that the whole line was held up, especially now that they were treating me like some kind of criminal.
She returned with my certificate, said it checked out, and rung up my purchase.
I really hope this doesn’t happen every time I use the gift certificate.
On the other hand, I do like eating.
Sooooooo
they belived someone would craft a gift certificate to steal 3.45$ form them?
Really desperate times we´re living in.
Haha, not $3.45, the remaining balance, which would have been $96.55.
Then again, these guys were nuts enough that they *would* freak out over three bucks…
Well, that makes a little bit more sense now. ^^
The proper response, while smiling beatifically, once they had ‘verified’ it (i’m sure they have a billion-dollar Bureau of Engraving counterfeit detection machine in the back) would have been “Thank you for making me feel like a criminal in the process of verifying this gift certificate which was given to me as a gift by someone who legitimately purchased it here. I really appreciate it! Also, thanks for holding up all the nice people in this line by wasting time in this absurdly complicated process! I’m certain this will guarantee that we all continue to shop here and puchase gift certificates in the future, knowing that each and every one of us will be treated like potential criminals!”, followed by the most corrosive scowl you can muster with the closing of “Asshole.”
If it happens again, I might just say something along those lines =P
Great job on the store management, they obviously foiled a major plot by a cunning master thief to defraud their store…Derp.
I had something similar happen to me when I was buying cigarettes the last time at Walmart, they were convinced I was a high schooler from down the road who had a fake ID. Manager, 2 Cashiers, and a Deputy later and I produced my federal protection credits much to their embarrassment.
Glad to hear everything worked out in the end!
Wait… there’s still stores using like paper gift certificates…? Wouldn’t it be more simple if they all converted to reloadable type gift cards where the balance automatically carries over?
I haven’t seen a store not use those in the past 4 or 5 years now unless they were just a local business…
Look, all this grocery story time is neat and all…but I don’t get the COMIC.
What DID he really want to talk to the doctor about? What was the prescription for? SO MANY DANGLING PLOT THREADS.
That’s too bad. And I had a great drawing suggestion for you, too! Oh, well, I sent it to your Gmail account.
Huh… And I thought customer service down here next to Matamoros, Mexico (I live in Brownsville, Texas) was terrible…
Sometimes, Alex, I wonder why you get into the craziest situations and you manage to stay calm (at least, to what you shown since your work time in Best Buy) all these times. I think I need to learn from you…
By the way, I keep ending up missing the livestreams all the time. I like watching them, but eh… It’s every Friday at midnight, right? I’m too lazy to convert, but will someone kind enough convert the time it starts to Central Time Zone? Thanks.
And congratulations, Alex, on your 300th post and comic! Thanks for the shout outs and we’ll continue making you proud with every reader coming in! I just remembered emailing you, Alex, about reading all the comics in one day. Time did fly, but Alex, go ahead and open more wine and celebrate!
The streams start at 10pm est, which would be 9pm central!
I get the feeling that the majority of my crazy situations are a direct result of living in New York City. I haven’t done much traveling in my life, but growing up in New Jersey was pretty boring, noteworthy things didn’t happen too often. Things took a turn when I started college at NYU.
As for staying calm… well, my friends would say that staying calm isn’t something I’m great at. Situations like the one above are tolerable, but there are a myriad of other things that freak me out on a regular basis =P
Thanks for the congrats! Time keeps on rolling along, and if I’m lucky enough, the comics will keep coming!
umm doesn’t the person giving the certificate have to pay the full amount in cash to get it?, also you could buy lots of hot pockets with $100