I don’t think she’s thinking they’re lucky. I think it’s more that she’s thankful that they are far enough away that the refs could not hear whatever he said about them.
I disagree… in the last panel she says “that part”, meaning the part of the exercise of thinking of herself (2nd panel), “doesn’t come easy to me.” I think that’s the opposite of your conclusion.
Of course not, or they would have been calling in progress updates along the way. They had to wait until they got to Mexico so they could use a payphone.
My hypothesis is (which I shall never test) that as edible parts of a pig they rank just after pig’s tails, which I have eaten, once, which was one time too many. This was in a small restaurant in a small town where there’s a huge national hardware distributor which has a “market” twice a year for their dealers to come place seasonal orders. On the three days it runs twice a year, it’s hard to get into the restaurant, and everyone seems to go there for pig’s tails.
I don’t think she’s thinking they’re lucky. I think it’s more that she’s thankful that they are far enough away that the refs could not hear whatever he said about them.