tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post8829878834378638117..comments2023-12-19T17:38:40.984-08:00Comments on Right Behind: The Waiter is Practicing PoliticsSpherical Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02435055266803359329noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-47425267782306926202008-01-02T14:50:00.000-08:002008-01-02T14:50:00.000-08:00This is great! I'm so glad the cats are being look...This is great! I'm so glad the cats are being looked after: ever since I heard about the rapture, I've been really worried who's looking after the animals.Sue Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284319721224160225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-27531664171021072642007-12-30T06:52:00.000-08:002007-12-30T06:52:00.000-08:00Abelardus, I set out meaning to write a bit of sla...Abelardus, I set out meaning to write a bit of slapstick, and it got away from me. And I've been reading SF too long to be comfortable with sloppy world-building.<BR/><BR/>Salamanda, if L&J won't fill in the details, we'll have to. Expect to see a balding Buck in all my foefic.<BR/><BR/>Jesurgislac, the cats just snuck into the story (as cats so often do). L&J don't give any thought to abandoned pets, the bastards, but I mean to.<BR/><BR/>Alan, as I noted in the comments, Ray's only been a RTC for a couple of days, not long enough to internalize the lousy tipper mindset. He still <I>thinks</I> like a big-shot airline pilot, hence the century-note. And thanks for the praise, everyone.<BR/><BR/>Btw, the restaurant will be going out of business soon. When it does, George will load up Mrs. Hutchinson's Volvo, and return to his hometown in upstate New York. The cats will like it there.Johnny Pezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430884010621619176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-88881056813868858142007-12-29T23:53:00.000-08:002007-12-29T23:53:00.000-08:00It's interesting to me that you assume Rayford gav...It's interesting to me that you assume Rayford gave George $100. The original text, as quoted by Fred, just says it was "a large bill," and Fred himself jokingly assumed it was just a $10. It baffles me that Rayford would feel the need to give his conversion speech in the middle of an up-scale restaurant, to the point of basically "renting" out the table for $100 an hour.<BR/><BR/>I think doctoral dissertations in English literature could be written about LB. Even the smallest, most innocuous details yield bizarre, gapping plot holes if given the slightest scrutiny. <BR/><BR/>PS -- Congratulations on creating in George a character more fully realized in 17 paragraphs than any of the LB characters are in 12 books. Heck, the unnamed, Raptured neighbor with the cats is better developed than Buck and Rayford.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-18278815618251118902007-12-29T23:12:00.000-08:002007-12-29T23:12:00.000-08:00Never was obsessive thinking about how a stupid pl...Never was obsessive thinking about how a stupid plot point in Left Behind might <I>work</I> rewarded so well!<BR/><BR/>George! And the cats! Aw. (And Rayford tips a hundred! Hee.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-79600644119399405912007-12-29T19:16:00.000-08:002007-12-29T19:16:00.000-08:00Buck's balding! *snicker* I love it.Buck's balding! *snicker* I love it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6545302900560676544.post-20473604421078672382007-12-29T19:01:00.000-08:002007-12-29T19:01:00.000-08:00A touching story; especially good to see the waite...A touching story; especially good to see the waiter didn't get screwed during the bribe. And you at least give him a reason to need the money -- and someone to sympathize w/ behind the bar.<BR/><BR/>And, of course, giving us reasons why the world's changed after The Event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com