So I guess the scorpion booked an international vacation with credit card points, and instead of going to Ipanema Beach (or whatever the scorpion equivalent would be), he or she ended up in a lobster tank?
I booked my last international trip with credit card points: Flight to Dubai, cruise from Dubai to Barcelona, flights from Barcelona to Casablanca and then back home. (I didn’t have enough points to cover the initial flight to Dubai, so that I paid for with cash.) It worked great, so I’m disinclined to take the scorpion’s advice.
Maybe the joke is that a scorpion superficially resembles a lobster, so the travel agent just said “Send him where lobsters are usually found.” I dunno.
I have not heard of problems booking international travel with credit card points, so that’s one question mark. And who is the person speaking in the caption? I think the two comments so far are on the right track. The scorpion is not apparently getting the vacation he wanted (scorpions take vacations and have credit cards?). And the resemblance between scorpion and lobster seems like it should be relevant.
The “person speaking” is the scorpion.
This panel seems less “finished” than the quality I remember from when I still read a little bit of buttersafe. I wonder whether deadline pressure led to the release of a sketchbook drawing that really needed more development.
Gee and I thought dealing with hotel club points were hard. We stayed 3 different times on the same points from Best Western as each time there was a problem and they gave us back our points.
Having not stayed in a hotel since we did so while our house was being heated to get rid of the bed bugs (and the fellow from the bed bug company checked our hotel room before we stayed there) in 2009, I have no idea if our hotel point cards are still active and if the points have expired – then again, I am not sure if we even still have the actual cards.
(Not sure the bed bugs came from a hotel – a client who ran apartment buildings in NYC outer boroughs and had his office in one of the building is the most likely source.)
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So I guess the scorpion booked an international vacation with credit card points, and instead of going to Ipanema Beach (or whatever the scorpion equivalent would be), he or she ended up in a lobster tank?
I booked my last international trip with credit card points: Flight to Dubai, cruise from Dubai to Barcelona, flights from Barcelona to Casablanca and then back home. (I didn’t have enough points to cover the initial flight to Dubai, so that I paid for with cash.) It worked great, so I’m disinclined to take the scorpion’s advice.
Maybe the joke is that a scorpion superficially resembles a lobster, so the travel agent just said “Send him where lobsters are usually found.” I dunno.
I have not heard of problems booking international travel with credit card points, so that’s one question mark. And who is the person speaking in the caption? I think the two comments so far are on the right track. The scorpion is not apparently getting the vacation he wanted (scorpions take vacations and have credit cards?). And the resemblance between scorpion and lobster seems like it should be relevant.
The “person speaking” is the scorpion.
This panel seems less “finished” than the quality I remember from when I still read a little bit of buttersafe. I wonder whether deadline pressure led to the release of a sketchbook drawing that really needed more development.
Gee and I thought dealing with hotel club points were hard. We stayed 3 different times on the same points from Best Western as each time there was a problem and they gave us back our points.
Having not stayed in a hotel since we did so while our house was being heated to get rid of the bed bugs (and the fellow from the bed bug company checked our hotel room before we stayed there) in 2009, I have no idea if our hotel point cards are still active and if the points have expired – then again, I am not sure if we even still have the actual cards.
(Not sure the bed bugs came from a hotel – a client who ran apartment buildings in NYC outer boroughs and had his office in one of the building is the most likely source.)