616: Lease

2016-06-14T22:03:50Z

Lupophilus: Missing parenthesis

{{comic
| number = 616
| date = July 29, 2009
| title = Lease
| image = lease.png
| titletext = You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Cueball]] is about to sign a lease to rent a building, but he's scared that he's not grown-up enough for the responsibility, presenting as evidence that he still plays with {{w|Lego}} building blocks.

In reality, as children, we often think that when we're adults, we'll somehow definitively feel like adults, but this isn't the case. We may become more responsible and capable over time, but we'll never attain the infallibility we erroneously associated with adults when ''we'' were children.

Of course, Cueball actually ''isn't'' responsible and capable, since he drifts off to think about the fictional character {{w|Batman}} (who appears in comic books, often considered children's material), in the middle of a serious financial transaction.

The title text references one of xkcd's most famous comics, [[150: Grownups]], where [[Megan]] decides to use the freedom of adulthood to fill her apartment with playpen balls.

==Transcript==
:[A man is holding a sheet of paper.]
:Man: Okay, any other concerns before you sign the lease?

:Cueball: I'm concerned that we're sitting here like I'm a responsible adult. I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since.

:Cueball: For god's sake, you're entrusting me with a ''building''. I still make LEGO buildings sometimes.

:Man: Sir, does any of this impact your fulfillment of the lease terms?
:Cueball: I don't know what you just said because I was thinking about Batman.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Playpen balls]]

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