Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 26, 2022

When the smoke detector goes off, the dinner is done…..

Good for you. No tobacco smoking around food, it ruins the taste. Depending on the food, that night be a good thing.

That’s alarming.

and it comes with a broom

Cue Batman sound effects

It’s not so much the detector as what happens when it goes off.

It’s so nice of a smoke detector to give a warning before it goes off.

In most eating places you’re not allowed to smoke!!!

And she’s about to off and soak you in cold water.

The batteries in the smoke detector died years ago, it got over worked from her cooking.

Its been over half a century since I saw a lot of people smoking cigars, outside of a cigar store. My late Uncle Jack, a veteran of Patton’s army, poker player, bowler, golfer, Babe Ruth league coach, and worker at the most chemically polluting plant in the U. S., (but he lived to 80) had a cigar with a wrapper on that I chewed a bit as a little kid—made me sick to the stomach. Never done anything with tobacco products since! Good lesson to learn very early.

And you really don’t want to set her off.