Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 02, 2018

que-… no, empress for Sonia

Ah Sonia, we barely knew ya.

Cart-herder! What a perfect name for the job!

It is a good name. Though, I have not seen a smiling cart-herder.

Do they yodel?

There was a stray cart standing in a handicapped spot (you can’t expect them to return the cart, after all) and a crazy lady walking from the lot grabbed it and returned it to the queue at the front of the store. I call her crazy, because that’s what I do. Sure, there are cartherds, but I don’t want a cart in the middle of the lot blowing into my car. Plus I’m anal.

I hope Dill doesn’t grow up to be Bubbles… ☺

Such ambitious children. Lots of jobs look fun on the outside.

I’m working on a new children’s book called The Adventures of Giant Sonia and the Grocery Cart-herder. It’s a rollicking, fast-paced action story that takes place in a parking lot (I observe the Classical Unities)….

This is what I like about Aldi’s. The carts go back in the corral and they return your quarter. No playing dodge ’em cars on the parking lot.