Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 05, 2014

Good thing they had experience as semi-professional “hide and seek” -ers in the Firemen’s League….

Brad’s a sly devil!

Oh, oh…I think this ploy is going to backfire! =-O

Actually, most closet doors I have seen are not lockable. For the precise reason shown here. A child could get trapped inside.

“Closet Space "“The Kids Down The Hall”“Give Me Just A Little More Time”“Child Proof Locks”or “Closet, Take Me Away!”

Maybe…and, then again, maybe not… ;)

This is predictable… and will end with a 911 call.

There’s also the danger of her going outside, and they don’t get to know it….

But then again, maybe this is just a case of “much ado about nothing”….

Well, a good book awaits…’nite all… ;)

Oh thats good! (Although what if she starts looking outside the apartment?) :/

What are you trying to keep IN a closet that you lock from the outside?

Okay, I think there’s some missing info in all these comments. The door locks from the INSIDE, so Bwad and Toni are perfectly safe, able to get out, and would never let Shannon get so hysterical that she called 911. Meh (etc) — you lock IN a closet that which you don’t want others to find.

And now Toni knows how little brothers and sisters are made. Hide in a lockable from the inside closet… ;)

I’m thinking the door will not unlock which will bring us some interesting situations………….

Now, what could POSSIBLY go wrong??

I see a 911 call coming.

Reminds me of my brother’s bringing his (now)wife home the first time. He had stopped at a 7-11, and had a specialty cup, ‘glow-in-the-dark’ that he HAD to show to his girlfriend. Of course, all of the kids had to see it, also.

For some reason, it didn’t glow for them, as brightly as it did for her.

Well, Brad and Toni had better hope that T.J. never got around to fixing it, either.

So much for the Toni haters.Just because we haven’t seen any of their action, doesn’t mean Brad and Toni haven’t been busy, off camera..Do comics have cameras?

“Maybe they’re outside”

The door isn’t hung backwards the knob is installed backwards

but the door’s been fixed and now it’s up to Shannon to save them

hm, its a simple lock where you turn it to extend the “bolt”. Interesting that there is no key hole on the outside.

“Just Toni and ME!”

“And Little Monster Makes Three!”

“We’re TRAPPED In MY – BLUE – CLO-SET!”

(With Apologies to Chubby Checker)

At least it used to lock from the inside.

Uh oh! I think Brad and Toni will learn a lesson here! NEVER leave little kids unsupervised for more than a few minutes….

Let’s hope Shannon doesn’t have a haligan and a flat-head axe (firefighter’s forcible entry tools).

Let us not forget folks, most of the remodeling on Brad’s house was done by TJ…so a closet door that locks from the inside ( or at all ) is not exactly a huge surprise here

-Brad said the door locks from the inside, not the outside

But why would a closet lock from the outside?

-Why wouldn’t he store that in his closet?

-1. Closets can have lights installed (mine do)2.You don’t know that Shannon has no friends.

-Speaking on behalf of families that have adopted children, A FOSTER HOME IS NOT A PERMANENT ADOPTIVE HOME.-Kids in foster care can be moved so frequently that they never bother to unpack a suitcase. If you favor adoption, quit pushing for foster care.

My money is on – somehow the lock gets stuck, and then of course that results in a 911 call to their colleagues.

Will there is a will, there is a way. Just ask anyone who raised five kids in a two bedroom house.

The old closet quickie trick.

-A foster home is where she’d be put-Every case is different. Here in Florida, if there are other relatives who are willing and judged able to take in a child, they are temporarily fostered with that family until it is determined whether the birth parents should have their rights severed, and then the other relatives are offered the chance to adopt.-The kids that were adopted in our family were not from our other family members, but were adopted directly through an agency that worked with birth mothers who wanted to give up their children. They were never put into foster care.-Foster families are supposed to receive training and have a limited number of kids to foster, In actual fact, there are too few foster homes, so kids sent to foster care are often in a very crowded environment. So even though many foster parents are excellent, the kids keep getting moved because the homes are not supposed to be so overcrowded.-There are a lot of people who really should not be parents, for a lot of reasons. Some of them are mentally ill. We have a horrible case going on right now in Florida where 4 children were returned to a mentally ill mother with little means of support. She had already accidentally killed one child when she was sharing her bed with him and rolled over on him. She has now killed that child’s twin. -The fact that someone is biologically related to a child does not qualify them to be a parent, and the fact that someone is an aunt or an uncle does not mean that they should automatically be assumed to be ready to be a parent if a parent is unable to act in that capacity.

We’ll see how this storyline develops. Locked in a closet, or does Shannon get in trouble? Maybe both. Remember when she disappeared and ended up sleeping in the clothes basket/

We know that Brad and Toni care for Shannon. Remember Halloween? They took her trick-or-treatin so that Jonah could go to a party.

I’m sure Brad and Toni will be adopting Shannon someday after they marry. But will she be abandoned before they marry, or after?

Who’s giggling…Brad or Toni.

Haven’t we already had the Shannon wanders off and is missing storyline?

Is it really so great for the next fire chief to be discovered locked in a closet with her boyfriend?

Toni: Wow it’s big in here! Let’s explore!The Urchin, the Lovers & the Wardrobe – with apologies to CS Lewis

It would have been better to have Shannon hide while they “looked” for her. That way she would safely be in one place, and B and T could have 5 minutes to themselves. If they stay in the closet more than 5 minutes and she can’t find them she will probably go outside to look for them. She will get in some unsafe situation.

this is exactly the kind of selfish behavior that gets kids hurt

Day 1 – Shannon hunts all over and can’t find them. More giggles from closet.

Day 2 – Shannon looks harder and does some damage in the process. Groans from closet.

Day 3 – Banging on closet door gets Shannon’s attention. She calls 911. She will use some kind of double entendre comment.

Day 4 – Firemen (regardless of gender) break down the closet door to reveal disheveled, ready to get out, B&T. Firemen’s eyebrows are raised. To save time, GOCOMICS will take today’s comments and just reprint them

I would love to spend an hour playing with a cute little girl like Shannon. She is smart and she just needs attention, the same as all children do. She is not a brat at all. She would blossom with the proper care.

Stay tuned for our exclusive story at 11PM . . . .

To be fair to Brad and Toni, little kids are usually very loud and easy to track when playing hide and seek. As long as they don’t stay in the closet for more than five minutes, Shannon should be fine.

You hope Shannon burns the house down?With all three trapped inside?I wonder if evil people realize they are evil.

Good thing this is just a comic strip. Otherwise I’m sure we’d all be worried about Shannon growing up to become a rooftop sniper, going postal outside a shopping mall.

shannon now has free run of the house. tell me, whats wrong with this picture

Gee…wonder where this is going? Any bets they get stuck in the closet?

Note: One can have custody without having to adopt, happens all the time.

Regardless of who/whomthose who wish such things are evil.

Even with your quotes around the statement, I don’t see anybody else saying it or anyone calling self "Curmudgeon..Was it there and removed or ????

I wonder if they’ll go for 2nd base or 3rd base in the closet? Some variations of third can be done in a closet…

Brad and Toni aren’t gifted with a godlike closet, however, so I’m thinking 3rd, myself, with Toni licking her lips and Brad with a BIG grin.

Girls planning on a strikeout don’t generally agree to go into locked closets in the first place.

Wes, you may attest to the absurdity all you want. When we bought this house it had a privacy lock on the outside of the walk in closet and the linen closet. I always wondered did someone miscount when they bought them or for other more nefarious reasons? Oh wait, “Honey, time for a time out, to the walk in for you!”

“…Brad/Toni are not good caretakers at all.”Shannon definitely requires supervision, and disappearing for “play time” doesn’t fulfill that obligation. Who knows what she’ll get up (in) to.Heaven knows how Jonah does it when not dropping the child off on Toni; maybe he’s not such a bad parent after all since Shannon is with him whenever he’s not off looking for work or whatever, which doesn’t seem to be too frequent as we see Toni sans child all the time in this strip.

Good for Brad and Toni!—Just keep the horniness within limits in there, okay?‘Cause eventually Shannon will figure out where you are, and you’ll have to come out of the closet (as it were)….

How do we know it was satire and not just your friends’ openly expressed desire?How do you KNOW it is not their desire?They sound creepy based on what you say they say.

Re: the difficulty of hiding in a coat closet…just to be silly, maybe the closet is like the one in The Chronicles of Narnia where the back of the coat closet extends into a very large space… Viola…our heroes have a Lot of space and Shannon can’t get in… ;)

Yeah, he’s ok, so far as I know. He posted around in other places.

“The people we bought the house from, mentioned that it would make a greaaaatare detentiion chamber.”

Now THERE is a reason why those sellers should Not be parents…omg… ;)

So sad that no one considered the possibility of the closet containing a large green pipe leading to a “Welcome Wagon” consisting of “talking mushrooms”, some princesses, and a Yoshi…..

Time to get ready for a meeting…hope to see y’all later! ;)

I’ll explain what I meant “another” day….

Yesterday’s is up on the FB page, with the caption: “Well, this should be fun!”…

Maybe not incompetent, so much as “rookie”… – In the sense or having to do it for longer and longer periods, they find that they were not ready to ‘pass the endurance test’ yet….

“Methinks that was Fats Domino.”____________________________________

Yeah. Yeah. Alan and You too, Dazz, It Was INDEED Fats Domino and NOT Chubby Checker that did that Version of “My Blue Heaven” I was Thinking of.

I’ll Hang My Head in shame for 30 seconds and stand in the corner.

(Excuse Me)

THERE, That’s Done.

Speaking of Domino, I could use a Pizza….,

And you didn’t bring any souveneirs? – I know… I know… Temporal “Prime Directive”…

I think you’re half right…..

I’ll let the “Talking Heads” speak on it…

Brad likes Toni for her long hair’s length!