Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 12, 2022

And just like that, Madeline now runs an Uber franchise.

I once drove an old lady around the parking lot at a Sears because she was worn out trying to remember where she left her car! I can only find mine by the clown on the antenna because its always parked between giant trucks and suv’s! (PT Cruiser)

Well Alice seems almost proud of her mother, good to see.

Forget Alice and Petey. Now Mrs. Otterloop is the the crazy one in the family.

it seems like mrs. otterloop forgot about alice…

Child abandonment humor finds a new niche.

Petey was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice, (Remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few nasty words to Petey on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat, and didn’t get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.…

Seat belts! Many of these kids are young enough for some sort of car seat or booster needed.

A color so neutral, it’s Petey approved!

Ahhh, so the real clown car in the family is Madeline’s. Mrs. Ritter, this is not the retirement home shuttle, but fear not, if I know Madeline she will get you safely to Safeway.

mrs ritter looks like granma

Goodness! How did all those strangers, both young and old, get into Madeline’s extremely neutral (beige?) van? It doesn’t look like a public bus; did Madeline just pick them all up out of routine, without really vetting their identities?

Most automobiles are somewhere on the grayscale between black and white and 47 shades of gray in between. I made a point of getting a red car and the Mrs has a blue one,