Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 22, 2010

Looks like Neal gets into his job a bit too much.

You might say he has a desk job.

The inventor of cylindricals.

He’s become a part of the furniture.

Cleo laughed herself to sleep.

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Spring cleaning? It snowed in Munich last night.

That bag that Clara is clutching looks, well, scrotum like. Does she have a death grip on…Oh, never mind.

Greetings, Cleo friends, and fellow stay-at-homes…

Welcome to the comment forum for

the March 22nd  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

 

Which you’ll find on Sherpa….

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Behind the refrigerator?

OK, now who’s going stir-crazy?

Or are you going to tell me that people NOT under orders to spend all their time at home actually clean behind th….

OH… um… never mind. Of COURSE they… I mean WE… do.

What was I thinking? Every day and twice on Sundays.

I wouldn’t want you to think I never… uh… well…. you know.

 

Cleo’s not laughing because she doesn’t get the “joke.”

It wouldn’t occur to her that Claude should or even might jump up to help.

After all… she wouldn’t.

Especially since she figured out that her food shows up no matter how little she pitches in.

 

Have any of you not (or not yet ) been given orders, or at least the suggestion, to “shelter in place”, “self quarantine” or whatever they call it where you live?

I’ve never seen the like of this in my lifetime.

 

I didn’t get back till late today… I mean yesterday, if you’re reading this on Sunday…

So all my “likes” and replies may have come after you last checked.

This happens a lot, lately… sorry.

I know I at least answered Dennis about whats-her-name, Plods about quarantine and Nighthawks about dwarves..

I think Neal was inspired by the little walker his grandson Noah was using…

It’s a seat surrounded by a frame with a big tray…

So he can roll all over the house, while enjoying his lunch…

even chase the cat without leaving his “table”.

 

Neal has hung a seat in the middle of his desk, so he can roll to the break room, or the boss’ office…

without disturbing his paperwork or interrupting his project.

 

But he’s forgetting a few things…

1) A walker needs wheels to roll. You’re not getting anywhere that way, Neal.

and 2) Walkers are BAD… they cause accidents and head injuries… and can give babies hip dysplasia.

They still sell them in the US… but they’re banned in Canada and maybe some other countries since I looked it up.

 

Neal may be too old to get hip dysplasia…but he can still fall down the escalator, if he does get rolling.

He should give up that idea…

and also warn his daughter to get rid of Nathan’s walker.

 

Hey… it would be OK for that plant to use it, when Neal needs his chair back

From the irregularities, it looks like Neal chewed that hole in his desk.

Clara could move the fridge by herself. Claude wouldn’t even be able to budge it. He doesn’t want anybody to know it, especially Cleo.

 

My Favorite Part™ was when Clara moved her hand in panel 2 (now THAT’S some fancy cartooning!)

you mean fancy-shmancy™

…and that’s when the fight started.

Neil looks like he’s testing an activity walker for adults.

Our stove needed to be leveled, so we took the bottom drawer out…….a good time to clean under there. I was surprised that the floor was clean – even after 7 years.

We just had a repair guy about 6 months ago work on our refrig. Since it’s in a huge cabinet, it wasn’t dirty! Clara needs to get a new one and build it in. Harrumph.

Thinking inside the box.

I don’t clean behind mine. I wouldn’t want to hurt the dust Bunnies.