Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 14, 2023

“Hell is other people.” —from the play “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre

The people won’t miss you.

There truly is no exit!!

It’s a conundrum when the “problems” are what you enjoy.

Do you miss people a lot? Get to the range and practise some more.

They wouldn’t miss Rat, though.

Rat miss people? Since when?

I should get some conundrums. And some conuncymbals.

A conun drum? Gets more instruments and you can begins a new musical band.

Rat would miss being mean to people.

But it beats the alternative

Gotta agree with Mr. WiseAss on this:Socializing within the community IS highly overrated.My friends consist of those I have known, and, or, worked with over the last 50 years.

Your own parameters, Rat. It’s what you make of it….

When I choose to interact with people, I only need to go on Facebook.

Can’t have it both ways, Rat!

“I hate people, but I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic.” Randall

Funnily enough, I share Rat’s problem. People drive me up the wall, yet I still need them.

I’m going to miss Pig when he dies but then I DO love pork ribs and bacon so it won’t be a total loss.

Then hang out with the 1%ers.

Too bad Rat is kinda like Charlie Brown, he loves humanity, but he hates people.

Rat doesn’t miss people, he misses putting them down.

It is paradoxical in many ways, but that’s one of the smaller ones.

Rat cannot annoy people if he is not around them…

I felt that way until the lockdown. Turns out I didn’t miss people all that much after all…..but they still cause most of my problems.

can’t live with stupid nor can he live without it… huh.

Pastis hit the nail on the head this time. People seek company although oftentimes they feel it was a waste of time.

Rat would miss people?! Yeah, right

Rats. Rats who need people are the unluckiest rats in the world.

No one would miss Rat.

Which explains why the old wise guy sits up there…all alone…

Talk To the Animals

There is a nearby reservoir where I can look out over the water to the sea. I go there for the quiet, except there are coots. Coots are a small irascible, duck-like birds and much like human beings. They have the conflicting motivations of being highly territorial and highly social at the same time. Every few minutes there is a “coot chase” as one drives another away from his part of the lake. Yet they are driven to feed close together and drift back into a group.

“I vant to be let alone.” Greta Garbo

If Rat really thought about it, he’d know he’s the problem.

It’s true.

The introverts are laughing at rat.

One is the loneliest number…

Rat and Pig must have prehensile toes. Long-long ago they would have saved this boy many slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and scars. And I agree with Wise AΣΣ.

It’s called “Mania of solitude and world”.

When you ask advice on socializing from someone who lives alone on a dung heap……..

You are a you problem, Rat.

The 99% can cause problems for you, Rat, without coming anywhere near you.