Grrl Power #1156 – Mundanity insanity
I spent about 30 second deciding what kind of car Max has. It had to be something with a fair bit of horsepower, but nothing too froo-froo, so it kind of locked her into muscle cars, and the Shelby GT-500 seemed like a pretty good fit. Considering how often she actually drives it (i.e., from the dealer’s lot to the Archon parking garage, and probably less than 100 miles on the odometer since) she wouldn’t spend a hellacious amount on a car. I think the 2010 she’s got is in the $90-100K range. She actually lets the Arc-SPARQ gear heads take it out every so often because otherwise the battery would die and the gas would break down into whatever gas breaks down into when it goes bad. That’s one thing post-apocalypse movies never address. All the gasoline left sitting in cars would be useless in a few months. Apparently it can last longer with some additives, but best case you might get a few years out of specially treated and contained gas. Yes, diesel lasts longer, but my point is that in Fallout, when it’s 20 or 40 or 100 years after you went into the shelter/cryosleep, there wouldn’t be anything running on gas, including flamethrowers. High-octane vodka, sure, but not gas. And let’s not forget most canned food only lasts a few years at best as well, so picking up a 100 year old can of beans that’s somehow not corroded through? Hell, I don’t even think the botulism in there would still be alive.
So anyway, yeah, Max owns a purple Shelby GT500 that she’s driven about 4 times.
The new vote incentive is coming along. Unfortunately I did buy Zelda, TotK, and while I partially got it because I’ve had a Switch since launch, I only have like 6-8 games for it. (If you must know, Zelda BotW, Metroid Dread, some game that’s like part Dig-Dug and part Terraria whose name I don’t recall, Cadence of Hyrule, and the rest are Jackbox games.) My point is that TotK is fun and has been taking up my evenings, but I’ll get the incentive done in time for the Monday comic.
The April vote incentive is up! As promised, it’s a Sydney pinup. Not airplane bathroom selfies, but hopefully her cuteness will satisfy.
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I am disappointed that she doesn’t have one of those replica Batmobiles from “Fiberglass freaks”
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https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-956-chromaphile/
Might be good for Max to experience what the plebs do every once in a while.
Christ on a bicycle! This woman has zero chill.
You’re just realizing that now?
I’ll say it again, impatient driving is a thoroughly common American trait.
This isn’t “Max has no chill,” this is, “Max is still fundamentally an impatient American, all but literally allergic to the least inconvenience.”
Honestly… I’m fine with some ‘patience’ as an American if I am informed of the possibility of delays ahead of time
However if you tell me “I will have you at X location in Y amount of time!”? Yeah… that is when I am going to be impatient unless there is a very good reason for the delay.
It’s not really that she’s driving though, it’s that she’s spent most of her life now being able to get anywhere and do anything nearly instantly. She’s already spending 100x longer than usual to do something the “mundane” way, and just sitting there doing nothing with no other car in sight is adding insult to injury.
Also, some light timings just really suck no matter what and we all have to live with that.
Eew, Maxima has the illegal blue lights on her car? I never considered her capable of making idiotic decisions until now.
What are you talking about? To me, she has white halogen headlights, and I don’t see any of the under-car neons. Maybe we have a white/blue dress scenario here.
The beams look white to me, but there is a bluish glow around the headlight bezels. Maybe that’s the body color shining in reflected glare?
Looks like the white halogens to me, but i sure wish those were illegal too! Yes, they’re bright and help drivers see better, but the slight blue or purple tinge that can be seen by everyone except the driver have some bad effects with certain people. For me, it’s instant migraines. One of my friends gets nauseated and if it continues for too long, light frequency induced vomiting.
did they make the bluish white headlights illegal?
Not as far as I know, but I sure wish they would
If it was modded to have blue headlights, under certain state and city laws. but if it has blue straight from the factory it’s legal. and seeing as how max drove it maybe a dozen times and just let’s sparq use it, it is unlikely to be modded.
It’s 100% chance of it being modded, just probably not the colour of the lights (unless she flips a switch to infra-red or something cool)
It has white halogens, the color is the reflection from the cars paintjob
Dry beans and honey. Shelf life of forever… if stored properly.
Add nitrogen packed rice, and salt, and you’re good.
Also in the Fallout series, Blamco Mac and Cheese, Nuka Cola, Fancy Lads Snack Cakes, Cram (the non-Irradiated cans), and Sugar Bombs have so many preservatives in them that they will last for 1000 years without spoiling. :)
More like they weren’t edible to begin with, so nothing lost with the pass of time…
What Pander Said! …. What Beregorn Said! as well but basically yea the Fallout series just went a different path of history so whatever they stick in their preservative isn’t the same as what we do, I mean think of the plates of pink goo. *nod* oop but that’s off topic.
Rally Vincent would get there faster.
Rally has a PROPER Cobra 500, not the garbage they’re foisting off these days.
*shakes fist at kids on lawn*
Not sure about gas but diesel can last a very long time. I’ve had it stood for over three years before and it was fine. No additives.
I know from personal experience that gasoline in a sealed container works perfectly fine for **at least** 18 months (probably closer to 2 years) with no additives in a non-climate-controlled environment. The whole “it breaks down in a few months” thing is, at best, *wildly* overblown.
Yeah I watch a lot of car revivals on youtube, sometimes even 30 year old petrol will still burn, modern ethanol fuel has a shelf life of a couple of years at best though because of the hygroscopic nature of ethanol. It sucks up water really fast, a sealed container would extend that but likely not to more than mayyybe 5 years and it still being usable (I’ve used 5 year old ethanol fuel in my lawnmower… it ran like shit not enough well enough to mow with).
Most fuel made in the past 20 years (I can’t remember when exactly it was required by US law. Clinton era perhaps) contains a number of additives that help extend its life to help reduce pollution. One of the big ones is a hydrophobic one to counteract the ethanol. There was a time when cheap, no-name fuel didn’t have it, but the big names did, and that was a selling point to explain why Chevron cost a bit more. I saw a YouTube video that I can’t find any more where they compared all of the 6 month additives for lawnmower gas, and none were very effective because the main ingredient was already in the gas.
Rally has a PROPER Cobra 500, not the garbage they’re foisting off these days.
*shakes fist at kids on lawn*
Diesel if stored properly can last decades – the biggest issue is water in it, which can lead to issues of bacterial growth. Running it through a water separator, treating it with fuel stabilizer, and draining what little water separates out from the bottom of the tank periodically, will all greatly extend the shelf life of diesel.
Gas can be stored for extended for extended lengths of time as well, the issue is ethanol added to it. It’s both corrosive and hydroscopic. It’s why gas goes bad in a matter of months. Opting for ethanol free gas, treating it,and periodically draining the separated water out can mean gas lasting years.
Imagine being in a bad mood at a bar because you had to DRIVE there. Now imagine having to listen to guys delivering their corny pick up lines.
She’d be in a better mood if she was in Europe. European countries replaced their stop signs and traffic lights with roundabouts, because NOBODY likes to be stopped when they’re supposed to be driving.
Unless you are in one of those cities (UK) that decide their roundabouts traffic flow, would be vastly improved by adding some traffic lights!
Lived in Dublin for 3 months, can confirm, worst. Idea. Ever.
Spent some time in the UK and was going to mention lights on roundabouts as well, very messy.
Although having personally visited one of the weirder roundabout ideas on Earth, I’m not sure the lights are the worst option.
I doubt it. I’ve been in areas with roundabouts here in the states. Half the time, they’re used properly. The other half, peoples don’t know what they are doing, and it’s almost an every-car-for-themself situation, which is made worse during rush hour.
Casting car’s coud be funny:
Dabbler
Perhaps weird one from citroën
A 2cv6 it’s the ultimate adventurer car ,rugged, good of road capabilities , could be started by crank and very easy to repair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV
A citroën CX, for daily use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_CX
And a mehari Citroën Méhari 4×4 for a plastic jeep perhaps in Beige Kalahari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_M%C3%A9hari
Dabbler might also go for an original Jaguar E type, as the closest thing to a literal phallus that she could get away with while still being an actual car.
Plymouth Prowler perhaps. Less flaccid- err… flat hooded :)
I hope so! The Prowler had a crappy 90+ hp engine when it first came out. I was SO pissed when I read that…
Oscar Meyer Weiner-mobile.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Wienermobile-NAIAS-2005.jpg/1200px-Wienermobile-NAIAS-2005.jpg
I thought about that right after I posted. Meh.
That can’t be the original one, that one was wrecked decades ago. Sitting on it’s side, in a ditch, fiberglass chunks everywhere. Still a nice part of memorabilia.
The current iteration had its catalytic converter stolen in Vegas earlier this year. (trigger warning – liberal use of puns)
Yeah, it’s no longer the Weinermobile, they have changed the name to “Frankmobile” (or “Franksmobile”)
Schlongmobile, scnitchelvaagen, food truck, metalmeatnoodle. I’m sure there’s p0lenty of possible pronouns for a vehicle like that.
No, the Oscar Meyer Weiner-mobile has been officially changed to either “Frank-mobile” or “Franks-mobile”
I know we’ve already seen Halo’s car, but now that she’s got some money, I expect her to buy a Delorean that’s been modified to look like a time machine. Other options: a panel van with “Mystery Machine” painted on the side or a 1967 Chevy Impala.
Most of the rest of the cast I expect to drive some kind of heavy duty pickup or an SUV with the same chassis. Given how many have some kind of super strength, they might not notice when they casually pack 200 lb and it messes up the suspension of normal cars.
I could not help imagine her splurging on something totally impractical like one of Jay Leno’s antique steam cars. A DeLorean would be something she’d drool over, but would likely be disappointed in.
Something small enough she could enclose within her field, and fly. I can see her pulling a Flubber bit flying alongside a commercial passenger get in a tricked out Model A
Mach 5. With plush Spritel and ChimChim in the trunk.
EVERYONE is disappointed once they actually try to drive a DeLorean… Darn gutless wonders that the frame crumbles on…
As long as the appearance of the car from Back to the Future isn’t trademarked. There was a whole debacle back when some people tried making the specific car from a series and the owner of the trade.ark pretty much said give us the car and you won’t go to jail. He handed the car over, and had since cleared himself of any wrongdoing (filmmakers family basically overreached and got sat down by legal stuff) but he never asked for the return of it because he figured they’d never hand it over. There was also a car modified to look like the batmobile (from the Adam West tv series i think) but because it was trademarked they were told either dismantle it or hand it over.
Seems to me I would just have modified that car slightly. 5 point special harness and she could sit in the car AND fly it anywhere she wants to go. (And it would have radar and the official radio gear, some avionics, and that all would just look like a normal entertainment system. Well, except for the heads up display. When that came up it might give things away.)
I agree with choosing a car that can be flown conveniently within the shield sphere, GIBBs Aquada came to mind for it’s ability to cruise on water as well considering her orb origin, amphibious love interest. I considered of the electric submarine/car Rinspeed sQuba priced at 2 million US and maybe… not unless it comes up at seized vehicle auction or get an endorsement deal cleared. Wheelsurf Monocycle/Gyrocycle from MIB3 might be Halo thematic and fun. (WebsiteURL short MIB clip)
… Ok, I have to ask how long since she’s driven that car and why exactly does she own it? Don’t get me wrong practicality dictates one should own a vehicle even if you can circle the planet in a couple of hours. One still needs to transport stuff like groceries after all. That particular vehicle seems like…. kind of a waste… for her. Sure it can go fast, but where do you even get to drive something like that anymore in a metro area? The car cover kind of suggests that she gets her necessities delivered instead of doing it herself as well. After all, her time is literally worth more than going shopping.
I like that we’re actually seeing her deal with some of the mundane things in life, always-and-only-all-super-stuff makes you get jaded to the premise and lose perspective after a while.
Maxima can transport far more groceries (or anything she buys) than a car can
Maybe a semi could carry more (solely because of awkwardness of carrying that much volume)
Maxima at a car dealership: “okay, bag it up for me.”
Dealer: “I err, what?”
Maxima: “oh, is it only paper here?”
Dealer: *making strange confusion noises.
Maxima:”Oh, fine. I’ll just carry it without a bag.”
*lifts car and flies off
Hop over to the nearest rail hub or deepwater port, buy an empty 20′ intermodal freight container.
It’s entirely possible she owns it simply because she liked it and wanted to own it. And all of ARCON are at the very least comparatively well off as the attitude to keeping people on staff seems to be “Pay enough to make it at least competitive with the private sector”, so even a fairly costly impulse buy like this is entirely doable for most if not all of them. They’re paid enough to not really worry about money, even if none of them are SUPER rich.
Maxima is also near the top of the chart here, and has been in this for a while. She’s probably low key a multi-millionaire by now. Think A-list celebrity money.
You’re low by at least an order of magnitude. Sydney will be a multi-millionaire within a couple years (less if you include the comic shop income). We learned she’s now making more per check than she used to all year – for each math call that $50K annual gross at her comic shop, well under the national average for a small business owner. We know that Archon payroll is bi-weekly, so 26x that is $1.3 million a year. Minus like 30-35% in taxes so her take home is around $1M.
Sydney’s skill set probably makes her better paid than most of the team, even as a recruit, but Max’s skills are at or near the top of the list and she’s “over a dozen pay grades” above Sydney. She’s also been in the military for years, and while Archon going public probably raised her pay she undoubtedly was already getting paid very well. I She’s probably making at least 3-4x what Sydney is.
If Max’s net worth isn’t well into the 10s of millions by now, it’s because she’s been blowing it on more stuff like this car.
The Flash owns a van. :)
Pages like this one are the reason I keep reading this comic. Slice of life FTW.
and Marvel doing away with them in their comics are why I stopped reading them. I long for the old days of Wolverine betting beer, and not just any beer, but the good Canadian stuff, with Nightcrawler.
Or the Poker Game featuring Ben Grim, Nick Fury, and various other badass characters. They even had the Sandman at one of them.
I woulda’ thought she’d have a high-octane motorcycle instead.
And she could ride without a helmet! But maybe speeds below a few hundred mph aren’t going to thrill her much.
Superpowers or not, it depends on where they live and whether RL laws apply to the comic. Where I live, there is no bicycle helmet laws but for motor vehicles it’s a different matter. If you’re on a motorcycle, scooter, ATV, etc, no helmet means fine or possibly arrest and detaining. I think bicycles do require a helmet if they are on the street, but I may be wrong on that. We also have reflector laws here and missing even one out of the required 8-12 will getcha in trouble.
Not to expensive? 90k to 100k? Nah that qualifies as pricy. Now, MECUM had a sweet deal on a 72 Charger for only 21k…
Now THAT was inexpensive. Still, you HAVE to acknowledge that Max has some seriously good taste in automotive sexiness.
Remember that Sydney now makes more in a single paycheck than her previous annual salary as co-owner of a business, and Max is “over a dozen” pay grades higher. 90K is probably a single paycheck.
Yeah. It’s canon that pretty much all of ARC are fairly rich, because outbidding the private sector or the potential of crime is absolutely a good way to both recruit and keep your superhero team.
I believe the cars in the Fallout series are nuclear-powered, not gas-powered. It’s a 50s futuristic retro thing. :)
Oh and in the Mad Max series, they have reasons for why gasoline is still around in each of those movies. :) Mostly when people start up or repair oil refineries and drilling stations. Not sure about Furiosa but yes to the others.
1) Mad Max – it was right after the apocalypse happened and there is still fuel in the gas stations that hasn’t gone bad.
2) Mad Max 2 – The Road Warrior – The whole plot of the movie is that there were some drills and refineries still working, or that people have gotten working again, and one such one was being surrounded by the raiders led by Lord Humungus, and Mad Max, the Road Warrior, helped them.
3) Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome – There are additional refineries still around, and Barter Town might also have one, but at the very least Barter Town has methane-based power and other things to trade FOR that gasoline. At least when Master Blaster has not ordered an embargo. :)
4) Fury Road – While it’s not necessarily in the movie, it’s in the video game based on the movie where there’s a place called Gas Town, which is an abandoned refinery that was started up again and uses gasoline as their trade staple with the other settlements.
Oh and the Walking Dead also makes sure that either cars become less and less used as time goes on. First they have regular cars salvageable. Then there are mainly Ford F-series in the show, which are diesel gas, which would last longer into the apocalypse…. then there are almost no cars and trucks and they rely more on horses, or there are occasionally groups like the Saviors, which are pretty much hoarding whatever diesel and shelf-stable gasoline is left and still is usable and later the Commonwealth, which has access to advanced technology and possibly a refinery.
And in the comics, when Carl is an adult they’re basically using horse drawn carriages instead, sometimes using cars and trucks as the wagons. :)
in the book City of Ember they had long ago ripped the engines and transmissions out of trucks and jury rigged them into wagons. I thought about it and that really would work. the speed would be so much lower that the bearings would last nearly forever. it possible the shocks would go bad but they might not even notice at the slow speeds and low weight (empty) the wagons would be moving. the thing is after 100 years or so they would forget how dangerous those springs are to take apart.
One game (and tv show) where they never explained how gas was still around was in The Last of Us. There are no refineries anywhere in Boston or Bill’s town, but somehow the gas in cars that can be siphoned is still good 20+ years later, even though even most tires were corroded beyond repair from age and non-use. Bill even specifically says to Joel that he can get gas by siphoning wrecked cars and gives him a siphoning kit. The gas sitting in those wrecks, exposed to the elements and not remotely stored to prevent oxidation or even slow it down would not be good 20 years later… Especially not for siphoning. Which should simply not work. It would be all gummy if any fuel was still in the wrecks.
TLoU 2 is even worse with how many vehicles the WLF has (in addition to all the other problems with that game’s storyline and the WLF’s strategies). There is no way they were drilling and refining gas at that stadium so where is the gas coming from 25 years after the apocalypse happened???
And I loved the first game but that part at the end of Bill’s town with the pick up truck made no sense for a game that they were trying to base on something at least theoretically plausible, even if far fetched. At least at Jackson (Tommy’s settlement) they used horses.
Correction: Mad Max was prior to the apocalypse (probably not by much, but still prior)
It was set in outback Oz, that’s why it looks post-apocalypse :P
“ It was set in outback Oz, that’s why it looks post-apocalypse :P”
Hehe.
I literally thought it was at the start of the apocalypse. :)
Believe the end talks about an upcoming apocalypse, Mad Max II is post-apocalypse (but they don’t talk about it) and the third one they reference it
Wait – Maxima knows _how_ to drive?
I was not expecting that!
I’m not surprised she knows how to drive, but I’m slightly hoping/expecting her to be a bad driver due to inexperience plus it having been a while since she last drove. It would be interesting to see her lose control than regain it by flying in the car.
I would expect her to be a bad driver in the handling aspect, just from being rusty, but I suspect she’s a rule-abiding driver, which makes her a good driver in the other sense.
Depending on how her super-speed affects her perception of time, I would expect her to be able to use it to compensate.
Seeing Maxima in a normal mode is a sight to behold. This is going to be an interesting night on the town for her.
It going to be an interesting night for the town with her, you mean …
Was coming here to mention that myself, though the motorcycles were apparently gasoline powered since they’re used as a fuel source for the shishkabob sword.
Shelby Gt-500 is the heroine’s car in Gunsmith Cats.
And it’s lovingly rendered, animated. Nearly car porn.
hope it has like a handle inside that is connected to the body frame of the car so she can lift it and fly around with it :D
Who wants to see Max behind the wheel of a 1969 Dodge Charger????
(Or maybe a Gremlin?!?)
A friend in high school had a 1968 Charger, that was fun.
Another friend had a Gremlin (I forget which model year, but it was a base model), that wasn’t so fun.
As long as that Charger doesn’t have…
a.it’s doors welded shut
b.a Confederate flag on the roof
and
c.a horn that plays Dixie…!
they’d be just some good old boys
didn’t mean no harm
spreading dog whistles
and makin the cops look bad.
and the plots are gag worthy
BMW Isetta with an extended roof for her height. Also attachable tow line so she can throw it over her arm like a car purse.
She’s going to end up going back carrying that car… provided it survives whatever nonsense comes of this.
…She’s gonna rip the steering wheel off in aggravation, isn’t she?
Yes, this is the perfect arc for my speedster OC from a heroes game that had (literal) god-level beauty, game mechanics had anything over 40 as god (or goddess) levels of beauty and when we wrapped up the game my character Flash Drive was pushing 50 beauty. The only person he trusted to “see” him without his full-face helmet in person was his blind GF that knew him from before his wreck that gave him super speed and beauty. His uniform is a skinsuit of alternating ANSI Safety Lime and florescent orange that causes nausea if stared at too long so people won’t remember what his face looks like.
I recall my Champions character: Had a near endless mask dispenser built into his costume, so that if you ripped off his mask, there was always another one under it. (The excuse for that was that I’d bought extra points by having xeroderma, and NEEDED to wear a mask all the time, but it was mostly for yucks if he ever got captured.)
How old was Max when she got her powers? She was still in high school, right? Did she ever even get a license?
Which powers, because she was seen as a teen prior to her… gilding, nearly disintegrating her brother when he popped a paper bag behind her while she was napping. She also bare handed, cracked the geode open that gave her the gilded glamazonian coating and some other abilities perhaps.
It was pretty thin-walled, most geodes are much thicker and normally don’t have that much liquid in them. It usually takes a stone chisel and a few hard whacks to bust one open. I wasn’t a real geode, just a container, maybe from the orb makers? Maybe sometime down the road Dave will explain her origins more?
From the pre-gilding pictures of Maxima I would guess that she was at least in her middle teens. In many of not most parts of the U.S. getting your driver’s license at age 16 is a right of passage. If you are in a rural community a lot of kids start learning to drive at 14. Even if she had flight powers at age 16 she would still be motivated to learn to drive a car if only to fit in with the other kids.
God if Max thinks the stoplights are interminable, wait until she’s on the ramp to get onto Woodall Rogers or trying to negotiate the fucking mixmaster surrounding downtown Dallas. Hope you ain’t getting on I45, girl, cause shit is always fucked up there.
Still., where would she even go? Lower Greenville? Uptown? Deep Ellum or Exposition Park?
. . .
Wait, Max is a secret nerd. She’s going to a retro arcade with a full service bar, isn’t she?
Split between Max ripping the steering wheel off or putting her foot through the floor. So, I will pick both, while tapping her foot waiting for the light to change she puts her foot through the car floor and get so mad she rips the steering wheel off. The real fun will be calling the insurance agent to report the damage.
Plastics get brittle over time too. It’s much worse if they are exposed to sunlight, but even after just a decade or two in a dark storage room it can be noticeable. After hundreds years, I wouldn’t count on any machine with plastic-insulated electrical bits to still work, even if it was hermetically sealed in a safe environment that whole time.
We’ve vastly improved our work with making better plastics but a whole lot more corps are capable of producing it easily. So there was a period where they just sucked initially, then we got super sturdy stuff, but corps realized they just needed plastic components to just last long enough for the products intended life time and THEN many built it to internally deteriorate soon by design so it will keep being replaced.
We can make plastics which last a long time, but very few bother. Some bring up the ecological issues with such material but its irrelevant since the deterioration of the other stuff just gets microplastics into everything and everybody.
“I suggest spending more time in the streets, then flying over them.” – Batman, Justice League Dark.
Is it just me, or does this version of Max remind anyone else of https://spyingwithlana.com?
If you’re familiar with the Belgian comic series Spirou and Fantasio,in the mid-1950s the pair acquired a vehicle known as the Turbot,a car with a turbo engine and who wants to see Max,or even Halo, driving it?
https://spiroureporter.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jds-3781-695×966.jpg
https://viaretro.com/2019/04/lancias-turbot/
Or maybe no one wants to see Max driving some European made vehicle?!?
wonder how many guys she is gonna maim/kill on her night out
I started to wonder what sort of car Sydney might get with her over the top pay-checks. I’m picturing a high-end steam car from the twenties/thirties. Jay Leno has one that is absolutely gorgeous, and that would make anyone into Steampunk drool.
Ohh – the 2010 model is my favorite.
(And as used cars they are not so expensive. I saw one for 30000 Euro, a few years ago.)
ok, hopefully there are people on here who were, are, or know people like Max. who fo a variety of reasons may not drive their car or even be in their house for days, weeks, etc. how is this handled? its well known how to keep cars in functional condition when they are driven less than 1000 miles a year. but do they just hire a service to do this? (how do they even advertise?)
she needs clarks cartoon verse handy dandy fold open roof car for when he needs to fly in a hurry
Just noticed the botulism thing… The expiration dates on canned food isn’t about botulism. It’s about freshness, and note that freshness has nothing to do with edibility. Of the can has no corrosion and isn’t bloated, it’s probably safe to eat. That doesn’t mean it would be palatable. It might have turned to soggy, disgusting mush, but it’ll be safe to eat.
Besides those rules of thumbs, there’s also this. If it says exp date or consume or freeze by on it, that’s a safety thing. If it says best by or just had a date on it, that’s a “we don’t guarantee it’ll taste good after this date” thing.
Why is she wearing a seatbelt? She is basically invulnerable.
Because that’s the law, and she’s police? And because she’s trying to pass as a normal woman?
Maximas skin is, according to her, like glass. Body-temperatured glass, but still glass.
How many minutes at the drinking hole will it take for someone to touch her skin, feel glass, see human flesh, touch again in an exploring way to try to understand what is going on … followed by Maximas predictable over-reaction?
I thought the special forces would have taught her the basics of “trying to not stick out in a crowd”, even given her Golden Godess statue.
It’s like glass in that stuff doesn’t stick to it very well. It doesn’t necessarily feel like glass to the touch. Sydney has touched her, and commented on how it feels, and didn’t describe it as feeling particularly weird. If anything, she was surprised at how normal Max’s skin felt.