Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 12, 2022

you’re unreasonable, Peter Otterloop, Jr.

Logically Madeline, all of Petey’s explanations make sense, so please get off his backpack.

I can totally see Petey ‘drifting to the right’. Like a beetle with one leg missing crawling in circles…

Petey is listing to starboard due to the added drag from the mostly beige rocks in his collection, kept in the right side.

Or as the sailors call it, listing to starboard…

If he doesn’t have a hammer, how can he hammer in the morning? How can he hammer out danger? How can he hammer out warning? I don’t know if he wants to hammer out love between a brother and a sister, though.

Heven knows you don’t want him “drifting right”! He’ll be “canceled” for life!

The backpack is now secondary to a whole lot of other concerns.

Wouldn’t some schools confiscate the hammers? Unless he is taking a shop class…

Ok. Petey, lose all the rocks and and equivalent weight in hammers and you will find that your stability situation might even improve. The idea is to reduce the mass you carry. I was overloaded with carrying too much water until I discovered de-hydrated water. It has made a great difference.

He should be strong as an ox

I know that I missed school but had a great day at the park.

Time for Madeline to enforce a parental crackdown on Petey’s carry-up proclivities. Hammers and stones and omnibuses and archival homework, oh my!