This is wonderful news! Mary is wearing a suit! It looks like she's packed up her scrubs and is finally heading home. Hurry home, Mary! We can't wait to hear all about your wonderful vacation. And if you're anything like Dawn and Wilbur last year, you're going to have to tell the story over and over and over again.
LOL! Mary's finally gone over the edge -- she's hugging a Shannon she made out of a mop, some rubber gloves, a hanger and one of her own suits! I knew she should have drunk more water on all those desert walks.
ReplyDeleteThe interior design geniuses at Pax Wellness spare no expense pampering their guests - Mary's room looks just like her hideous Charterstone digs.
ReplyDeleteA cameo appearance by Thing in the first panel...
Mary's cell at Pax
ReplyDeleteComplete with Charterstone Ants
Might be an Omen.
Oh, but silly me!
I forgot who's writing this.
Nothing means a thing.
How dramatic. She's a yoga teacher. There are no other yoga teacher jobs available in the desert?
ReplyDeleteOn a related note to the Pax decor, I was excited to see yesterday that they're redoing the exterior of at least one (and hopefully both of our buildings at work from a hideous two tone light/dark salmon palette over to a nice light grey.
Wait! Mary still hasn't reunited angry Aggie with her former best friend and John Dill's brother still has to go back to that boring job! This was an incomplete meddle.
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ReplyDeleteWalls of mint and Pepto,
ReplyDeleteremind me of that klepto,
Bonnie? Bonnie the hoarder,
with a shopping disorder.
Her peppermint-striped stacks,
of polka-dot boxes, and hanging slacks,
were far more entertaining than Pax.
Is there shopping in Tucson?
Because I've never been bored-er.
There may be many more people weeping by themselves in the desert. I suspect there will be much more meddling in Arizona in the coming days/weeks.
ReplyDeleteMary's not in her rehab outfit anymore so I agree: she's outta there. And about time, too. There are so many new boring, senseless and coma-inducing stories out there to explore for a writer of this caliber.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, am relieved that this pointless yet unrewarding adventures draws to a close.
ReplyDeleteWhat have we learned?
Only that my soul died a little more every time desert rocks, yoga mats and psychotherapy were illustrated.
If this is truly the end of Mary's stay at Pax, I must say I have never in my life seen a more boring story in my entire life. Was there a point?
ReplyDeleteMoy needs to get her head out of wherever it is and at least enter the 20th century. I know asking her to enter THIS century would be just much too much.
So Shannon stays on as a Yoga instructor, teaching one class a day, getting paid ten bucks an hour. Reach for the stars, Shannon! Climb Every Mountain!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Toby has finished her clown painting, so she has time to listen to Mary rehash the entiore summer.
Maybe Toby could visit Pax and teach a clown painting class.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the only bad thing about Mary traveling somewhere. When she returns home, we have to go through the whole trip all over again as she tells it to Toby or Dr. Jeff...
ReplyDeleteI hope we can see Shannons floating head outside Mary's plane window soon! Mary, I'm sure, will have to re-live the saga on the plane to her unsuspecting seat mate, instead of watching "Cloud Atlas" with a headset.
ReplyDeleteHer job endangered.
ReplyDeleteDoes Pax staff come to her aid?
No, just Mary cares.
Is Shannon friendless?
A sharing circle may help.
Mary would approve.
I can't wait until Mary gets back to Santa Royale! I'm really looking forward to hearing all about her delightful adventures at Pox Wellness, now that I've seen it all. I just can't get enough!!! (And for those of you complaining of boredom, at least this isn't Apartment 3-G. Mary Worth knows how to start a plot and stick with it to its own compelling conclusion!)
ReplyDeleteAggie, thinking she got Shannon canned, signed up for the Yoga classes again and is SO looking forward to meeting the new instructor!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, WHAT has happened to Shannon's back and neck!?
You are right, where is Shannon's neck? Does today's panel considered to have a floating head?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds to me like Aggie does this at many places, spas, restaurants (to waiter "at least you HAVE a soup of the day! I'm going to talk to the manager!"), her cable provider ("at least you HAVE the Hallmark Channel!", just to get a free product or service.
ReplyDeleteMary shouldn't eat saltines in her room - just look at all those crumbs! The second panel reveals that Mary travels with the remains of dear Jack.
ReplyDeleteRewrite the open talk guideline, hmm? "Guests should feel free to say whatever they want in open talk sessions, but anything they say can be and will be used against them."
So that's it. Two months in the desert and all we get is: Shannon is vindicated, Aggie is paid off, and Mary is sanctimonious!
ReplyDeleteWell I guess that isn't everything we get. I got two months of having the life sucked out of me by this, mind numbing, boring, pointless (WORTHless) story!
I guess the magic of Mary is that I keep coming back for this punishment day in and day out! Oh why does this old biddy have such a hold on me?
Congrats Shannon! You're permitted to stay on at the job you're ill-equipped, untrained, and unqualified to do located in the middle of the desert.
ReplyDelete"Dear Diary: It doesn't get any better than this!"
Chester, I agree with you. Aggie sounds like my brother-in-law, who would delight in complaining about something in hopes that he'd get a freebie.
ReplyDeleteBut in Aggie's defense, when you pay to experience a resort + spa, you really do expect much more than what Pax Rehab seems to offer. Who WOULDN'T be angry after seeing what it's REALLY all about?!? I'm shocked the halls aren't loaded with people foaming at the mouth demanding refunds...
ReplyDeleteShannon gets to stay.
ReplyDeleteShe owes it all to Mary.
All of this for that?
We went to yoga!
And interminable hikes!
Remember the pool?
And suddenly in
A few days, some green sad sack
Melts down, then, The End.
So the moral of Mary Takes a Stroll in the Desert is:
ReplyDelete1. Act like a complete loon and try to get someone fired and you'll get free stuff?
2. If you get in trouble for being incompetent at a job for which you are clearly unqualified, some misguided do-gooder will get you out of a jam?