Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for January 15, 2022

Quit reading gocomics and go back to sleep!

Someone should invent “nighttime gags” for kids!!

As a young child, like many others from my generation i watched Sesame Street. In Canada they generally substituted French for the Spanish that occurred occasionally as part of the original show. One of the bits they did was about calling your parents for water in the middle of the night. Eau is French for water. So the show taught little kids to call out “Oh! Oh!” in the middle of the night when thirsty so the parents would come running thinking you were in pain only for you to ask them for a glass of water.

And so everyone else’s sleep gets disturbed to cater to his desire to have company?

So wake up the whole house, why don’t cha!

and he gets a BEAR to soothe him?

You got your attention; now what?…..

So get him a teddy bear. Ah, not you Clive.

You’re aren’t lonely now, little pest Nerwin, but I’m betting you are less loved than before….