Or I’ll be rich enough to afford analysis while you live on my pay.
Or – the maid and the patient could be the trade.
My thought was the same as Meryl A.
I’m with Swazoo. She’s wanting the shrink to try and clean the office while she’s using it. Maybe then he’ll see her point of view.
I’m just struck that the doctor is seeing patients late at night.
@ beckoningchasm – It may not have been that late. This comic was published on January 20th, and was therefore probably composed in late December, when late afternoon can be extremely dark (especially in northern latitudes). Baldwin is from Ontario, Canada, so he’s farther north than most of the continental US.
@Kilby. Except the clock says either 8 o’clock or 20 to 22.
Sorry
20 to 12
Ooops. I only noticed the moon, not the clock. Putting those two together means that it has to be late (or very late) evening. Even on the winter solstice and ten degrees north of Baldwin’s location, it’s already light outside at 8 am.
I find I’m enough of a reverse snob to think it might do rich ladies in therapy a lot of good to swap jobs with cleaners for a while. It’d sure make me count my (already considerable) blessings.
If we are going to be astronomically correct, and assuming that this is in the northern hemisphere, then the orientation of the moon tells us that this is just before dawn. Or maybe the purple clouds indicate the first glimmer of dawn.
The joke seems to me that the maid has heard the psychiatrist’s routine so many times that she knows what’s coming up: The doctor will listen to the patient, make hemming & hawing noises while pretending to think hard, and then say, “I know — let’s try role reversal.”
The statement is meant to sound impromptu, but in reality it’s something the doctor says with every patient. It’s purpose is to make it look like that the doctor is trying something novel to help the patient, when in fact he’s just trying to pad out his time because he’s getting paid by the minute.
@ J-L – And if that’s not enough stalling, then they go for couch reversal.
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I’ll analyze her while you clean the floor.
Or I’ll be rich enough to afford analysis while you live on my pay.
Or – the maid and the patient could be the trade.
My thought was the same as Meryl A.
I’m with Swazoo. She’s wanting the shrink to try and clean the office while she’s using it. Maybe then he’ll see her point of view.
I’m just struck that the doctor is seeing patients late at night.
@ beckoningchasm – It may not have been that late. This comic was published on January 20th, and was therefore probably composed in late December, when late afternoon can be extremely dark (especially in northern latitudes). Baldwin is from Ontario, Canada, so he’s farther north than most of the continental US.
@Kilby. Except the clock says either 8 o’clock or 20 to 22.
Sorry
20 to 12
Ooops. I only noticed the moon, not the clock. Putting those two together means that it has to be late (or very late) evening. Even on the winter solstice and ten degrees north of Baldwin’s location, it’s already light outside at 8 am.
I find I’m enough of a reverse snob to think it might do rich ladies in therapy a lot of good to swap jobs with cleaners for a while. It’d sure make me count my (already considerable) blessings.
If we are going to be astronomically correct, and assuming that this is in the northern hemisphere, then the orientation of the moon tells us that this is just before dawn. Or maybe the purple clouds indicate the first glimmer of dawn.
The joke seems to me that the maid has heard the psychiatrist’s routine so many times that she knows what’s coming up: The doctor will listen to the patient, make hemming & hawing noises while pretending to think hard, and then say, “I know — let’s try role reversal.”
The statement is meant to sound impromptu, but in reality it’s something the doctor says with every patient. It’s purpose is to make it look like that the doctor is trying something novel to help the patient, when in fact he’s just trying to pad out his time because he’s getting paid by the minute.
@ J-L – And if that’s not enough stalling, then they go for couch reversal.