Brevity by Dan Thompson for December 24, 2024

Yaaaay???

By the look on her face, he doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance.

There goes the couch

Pah rum pa pum BUM!

Long past? No, your past!

Shut the door and lock it and the windows!

What the Dickens!

Sorry, our house is an inn now … and there’s no room in the inn.

A visit complete with his stanky cigar

He forgot the boo-quet of flowers.

Every family has a “Cousin Eddie” lurking in the wings…

And he is why we make sure that our guest bed is not that comfortable/

He ain’t too heavy, he’s my brother-in-law.

that’s a relatively rude thing to do

The word No is a complete sentence, there’s a Motel 6 somewhere close by, they leave the light on for you.

Plenty of these kinds of stories in the Advice Columns. Always a hoot. Wonder about the poor folks who never learned about boundaries, either setting them or recognizing them.

“Oh, they moved. I’m just some anonymous woman in curlers.”