Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 10, 2010
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Transcript:
Woman: Lookin' good, Sergeant! Melissa: It's so weird... Woman: What is? Melissa: I dunno... having some authority. I'm now actually in a position to make someone else's life miserable. Woman: Which, of course, you never, ever... Melissa: I feel petty... oh so petty...
Appropriate. If Mel were in the Navy, she’d be a petty officer second class. And I knew plenty who really took the “petty” part to heart, raising it to an art form. (Even though the etymology, in this context, is the French “petit.”)