Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 17, 2021

Yes, Melanie, we don’t want a repeat of the incident at the Wilber’s last Tuesday.

Oh, Melanie! Did you go off your meds again???

Word is out the sherriff is back in town. She’s better behave.

That’s a good move there Melanie! A little zen moment, a prayer, could calm you right down. It might allow you to become one with yourself, whole again. Comfortable in your own skin, you might say.

No, no, MEL, not THAT comfortable!

Behaving gets harder with age.

Gud idear MeLanie..! Kepe yurseFF in Cheque..!!Ooops, how easily I can slip into my old bad habits… you see ah, err.. “I” went missing near o’er two full years due to some misguided Citizen in BAD standing having issues with my poor grammatical abilities in day to day communications.. in which SuSun used to affectionately refer to as “Monkey Speak”. According to the gocomics overloads, er, “overlords” several comments pertaining to my constant “Gibberish” didn’t set well with certain BS inhabitants… well, *sniff… that really hurt … especially when I was literally gagged from comment within the community.., More to follow…

oh Miss Behave

Where’s the fun in that Melanie? Misbehave a little anyway.

She looks none-too-happy about having to behave herself.

here is the fun in that?

…and not to forget to feed the weasel.

Melanie never listens to Melanie…

Just remember, Melanie is a pro!

When asked if I’m staying out of trouble, my answer is “no”. If you stay out of all trouble, you die of boredom. I do avoid serious trouble, however.

Take more than a moment.. A clothespin on her nose would help more, the mere smell of gin gets her frisky.

“Ain’t Misbehavin’ " She’s been rebelling every since she won the title of Miss Behaving in the Catholic school.

Judging by the looks of her, I doubt she needed that.