Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 06, 2012

How lucky can you get?

I want some street too!

No, Peter Otterloop, Sr., you misunderstand; put down the book and take a gander.

Peter, you really should have taken a glance at Alice and her chunk of street! What will Madeline say?!Alice, you are so lucky!

Children do have an amazing sense of treasure.

Nothing but pretentiousness.

Or you live on Ballard Street (and can strongly relate to today’s Ballard Street).

How will we survive without this strip? I’m heartbroken. We’re with you all the way, Richard.

Yesterday our “Alice,” who just turned six, didn’t get off the school bus with the rest of her siblings (the bus serves K-4 through 12 in this neck of the woods). One of her sisters said that a boy said he saw “Alice” get off at the Boys and Girls club in the little city where she attends school. (She had been told that she couldn’t join the club.) Sure enough, she was located at the Boys and Girls Club. My daughter made a seventeen-mile round trip to fetch her. The attendant there said that anyone who is invited by a member can come, and can join later. As “Alice’s” mom put it, evidently any unattended six-year-old can wander in without I. D. and the situation will sort itself out later. Her mom made calls and wrote a letter, and “Alice” is banned from the computer for a week.

nice pothole Alice!

I am so sad to learn of the cancellation of this cartoon. It is one of the very best. May they find a cure for Parkinson’

Get out the vacuum cleaner.

Good fuel source.

Kind of like a book I read (I think it was a dilbert one) where a kid said “Grandma, I’m hitchhiking naked to Norway.” “Have fun, dear.”

I used to work on a paving crew. If a kid could pick up, let alone carry, a chunk of asphalt that large, I’d have been happy to let them have it. (And a little scared to tell them “No”.)

and under the bed it goes, not to be found until they either move the bed or move house.