Agnes by Tony Cochran for January 10, 2013

Speaking as a ibrarian, score one for libraries for providing people like Agnes, who has no chance of having a computer at home, with the means to get what she needs. Your government workers and tax dollars at work!

Who else thinks she’ll cover a piece of cardboard with aluminum foil and scotch tape it to an old broomstick?Unless she “borrows” Granny’s cookie sheet and duct tapes it to an old golf club.

Agnes will surely figure something out. Is that the same “thing” on her bureau two days in a row?

One year we got over two feet of snow while I was at work, and my husband nailed pieces of old paneling to 1×2s and made each of our three daughters a snowshovel. They were able to clear a spot large enough for me to get the car off the road. The snow was up to the door handles.

Interesting they have a computer, live in an area that snows and can’t afford and do not have a shovel. ???

Either the library has the exact same wall & floor colors as her house, or the “library” she went to is an online one.

I can’t remember if she and Trout have been in snow before, but the possibility is since niether know what a snow shovel is, is that they live in what used to be a typically cool winter clime (as opposed to the northern states), and they just had one of those freakish snowfalls that are becoming more (ab)normal, thus the lack of knowledge of a ‘snow shovel’, and the more apparent lack of knowledge of the work required, and noticing the obvious opportunities that they feel they have since nobody else has a snow shovel.

Aye yi yi….

So many assumptions….Agnes has tried to make a computer from bits of cardboard and tape…. if she HAD one she wouldn’t need to…. and the girls have discussed their lack of them.So she’s at the library….The rooms probably match in all the panels only because that was the color scheme chosen for decorative effect by the colorist today.The syndicate only pays them about $20 to color a whole week of any comic strip — so most colorists spend 10 or 15 minutes per daily strip. Some don’t even read them first, and only the really dedicated ones go into much color detail.This colorist may not have even realised there was a change of venue.

As for “trailers” … wow, how long has it been since any of you have seen one?

I think Agnes and her Grandma do live in a pretty old one, and Tony MAY have shown it with a curved end….

But unless it’s a travel trailer from the 1940’s and not a mobile home (8 feet wide as opposed to at least 10 feet)…. the inside walls don’t have rivets showing, and only one room…. usually the kitchen, has a bit of curved ceiling.

You could be inside most mobile homes these days and it would look like any house.50’s and 60’s ones often have wood paneling, then they started using fake wood grain, but since the late 80’s most have sheetrock.

I am SO tired of the implication here that anyone who lives in a mobile home is a low-life… in California with housing prices so high, MANY of us do….

And Night-Gaunt…. you’re thinking of a snow scoop.

A regular ol’ snow shovel is indeed almost flat… usually lightweight as well.

Some have more of a curve nowadays… but even a scoop usually isn’t very deep.

Snow shovel

My dad used to say he planned to tie one to the top of our car and we’d move far enough south that people said “what’s that?”

@SusanSunshine….. if not already done so…… Breathe!!!.Yes. That looks like a snow shovel. Though I have noticed the ones at Canadian Tire are a little wider. .I know, I had to take a second look at the ‘library’ panel. Trout’s earmuffs gave it away. .I still thing Agnes should just ‘borrow’ some protester’s sign. It would be about the right shape & size. .Agnes lucky she can get time on the library’s computer. Ours always have a waiting list standing there waiting.