This is the first strip of the cafe planner storyline. It continues here, then ends here. Apparently, despite Boopey’s initial looking down upon the whole planner thing, she became a pursuer of the year-end gimmick.

Harry here reminds me of my high school days, when you get 50 centavos for every soda bottle returned to the cafeteria. We ‘entrepreneurs’ would scope out unattended bottles, like vultures.