Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 03, 2013

Dill is correct.

Who knew paddleball was a contact sport.

Those things (paddleballs) are dangerous. I had one or two when I was little and did not yet realize that I had no athletic skills. Either the rubberband broke and the ball flew off to impact something or someone, or the band tangled itself around me much as it has here around Petey. In some ways I think I was Petey as a little kid (though he beats me in picky eating rituals and I had no little sister).

Once the rubber band broke my mother knew just what to do with the main part. She applied it directly to the seat of the problem. Especially after I broke the yard stick she had been using into thirty pieces!

Dill is showing some disturbing tendencies, running a bus into a cow.

O’ it’s suppose to have a rubber band?

If he wants to try paddleball, Petey should be wearing cross-trainers.

I was a klutz in sports, too, from jacks on up. The only time I didn’t get picked last for a team was when my best friend was the captain – she later won a city-wide free-throw championship (for girls). However, during spelling bees, I was in my element.

Me too, Dill! And I’m great at it!

better stick with Go Fish

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