Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 15, 2021

Ernesto sure knows how to pick Petey for all his activities and never the other student body.

No macaroni? No Swiss cheese? They’re both white, sort of.

If he wasn’t imaginary, Dill’s brothers would beat him up.

Ernesto, an undercover Federal Aviation Administration agent assigned to check area for a possible emergency landing strip.

Uh oh, Petey. He’s got an out for your first dodge.

It had better be a good power vacuum, there is a heck of a mess to clean up.

There was a kid at our youth camp who wouldn’t eat food with holes in it. One of the snacks was a platter of those windmill cookies, which have holes where the blades cross the building. I caught him picking up each cookie holding it to the light, and then dropping in into the trash. I’d just put a brand new bag in the can, so I shooed him away and put the cookies back on the plate.

Somebody gave him a snack cake.

Ernesto seems destined to be a salesman

You have amazing hallucinations, Petey.

No such thing as hole-less crullers. Crullers are donuts that look like tractor tires.

Would the coming power vacuum be an “Elect-a-Putz”? A “Your EEK! AAAA!”?

Whichever, they’ll sure Hoover up your money…

I’ve been going to that picnic for years and still don’t want to be an adult.

If you don’t want to do something then say so nicely but don’t offer reasons. You leave it open for argument and someone corralling you in.

Saying “I hope you’re coming to the Future Adults of America’s Summer picnic” is NOT a QUESTION!!!! God, this is the second comic today that the cartoonist has done that!

Petey doesn’t frolic either.

Further evidence that Ernesto is imaginary: he immediately announces holeless crullers when Petey objects to food with holes in it.

Besides, FAA sounds terribly boring….

Where does this kid come up with all those phobias and anxieties, and psychoses?