Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 21, 2013

She has a point.

That’s 10:15 AM in Italy. Guido should call no earlier than 2 PM which would be 8 AM “Gretchen” time!

@Nabuquduriuzhur [where did u get the Babylonian name?] where can I get a hold of some of the stuff you’ve written?

Sounds like he wasn’t really in Italy.

Lonely? That doesn’t sound like a business call.

Doing my best Popeye imitation:.I’ve had alls I can stands, I can stands no more!.“Agent” is “lonely”? That’s no agent, that’s a boyfriend!.Gretchen, you are now officially a freeloader!.Someone has already said, will Slim “man up”? Whatever that means..But I think it’s time that Slim and Clovia wake up!

Ain’t love grand? Slim & Clovia did wake up. It was at 4:15 a.m. That’s just the trouble.

Just as I thought. Something is going on between Gretchen and her agent, and it is not all work. Maybe Slim will finally insist that she have some respect for others in the house who need to sleep at 4:15 a.m. That is 15 precious minutes of sleep that I would miss. ;)

She should have stuck with that nice software developer I set her up with.

At 10:15 AM, Guido should be too busy to get contracts for Gretchen to be “lonely”. Also note that Slim must live in the Eastern US and that both Italy and (most of) the US is on daylight saving time.

Doing my best Margaret Hamilton imitation:.Gretchen, you are now officially a freeloader!.And your little dog, too! Heh, heh, heh, heh…