Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 28, 2014

I thought they all had wiggly wheels.

Its the ones that pull hard to the right (or left), they have minds of their own.

Indianapolis has lots of carts that wander away from the lot. People take their groceries home in the cart and leave the cart on the sidewalk blocks away from the store.

some even go out of State in the back of a Moving Van… error of course.

Yes. He’s allergic to work.

You know, if you don’t recapture them, they go feral. They eat sleeping bags and old clothes and enslave people to push them around, Apparently, they do not provide well for their slaves.

Because he doesn’t want to be.

I like (not!) the ones that have the gizmo to lock the wheel if they get too far from the store. People take them anyway, and when the store gets them back the wheel has a flat spot that goes THUMPA-THUMPA-THUMPA-THUMPA when you push it.

You have to be smarter than what you are herding.

The carts with woogity wheels have been overloaded and bent the frames or broken the wheel roller or pivot bearing.

What a great smile Dill has in panel 1 as Alice asks him to tell more! What a sullen statement Petey makes in panel 3 as Alice laments his drabness. What a risky crossing of the road in front of a wobbly cart by the bluebird of panel 2!

♪♫High on a hill was a lonely cartherdLay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo♪♫

doublejake said:“@Quiet OneIt’s amazing how many “inanimate” objects animate when not observed. I personally believe that paper clips are larval coat hangers. In my house, over the course of a few months all the paper clips disappear while the closets become overstuffed with wire hangers. Never have figured out how the hangers breed new paper clips……”

Well, when a boy hanger meets a girl hanger*…

*Unless, of course, they reproduce asexually.