Keeping Time
Keeping Time
My Hobby: Pausing in-store music for a split second and watching the ex-marching band kids stumble. [On a balcony overlooking a supermarket, Cueball presses a button on a pedestal. The in-store music, the first four bars of a well-known song, pauses briefly after the third bar, and one of the store's patrons falls on her face.] FWOMP

Listen to the music played here.
A member of a marching band, after spending seasons marching in time to their music for their shows, ends up naturally walking with the rhythm of any music they hear around them, like at a shopping mall. Pausing the music for a split second would throw off the rhythm, supposedly enough to cause them to fall. The line of music in the comic is a piano reduction of a well-known song, linked here . Randall talks about this music line in one of his talks .
This comic is part of the “My Hobby" series.
The title text refers to the fact that almost all marching bands start marching with the left foot, so marching band members tend to naturally start with the left foot.
My Hobby: Pausing in-store music for a split second and watching the ex-marching band kids stumble. [On a balcony overlooking a supermarket, Cueball presses a button on a pedestal. The in-store music, the first four bars of a well-known song, pauses briefly after the third bar, and one of the store's patrons falls on her face.] FWOMP
