One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for September 30, 2022

That boy is a couple of bricks shy of a load.

She needed to be more specific.

Put a blade of grass parallel between your thumbs and blow on it. Primitive reed instrument.

I didn’t think anyone did that anymore, we used wax paper over a comb

That must be a bass raisin box. I think Ruthie’s must be an alto box. Now that I think about it, I never expected to be using those two words together…

We used to do that trick with empty Good ‘n’ Plenty boxes when we were kids in the 1960s.

I remember doing that with different boxes.