Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 18, 2015

Before the landslide, Petey’s organization of his locker reminds me of how I try to make every donation fit at the Salvation Army donation shed I work at.

I don’t think Petey would be good at Jenga.

Viola’s profundity will give Petey ample food for thought as he sits amidst the ruins of what he thought was “perfect alignment…,” etc. Maybe there was a flaw in his Theory of Packing the Locker. Or, maybe, this was fated to happen at the End of Days, the Endtime, the time when he had to clean out his locket at the end of the school year.P.S. For a third-grader, he sure had packed in a lot of stuff….

Who says school doesn’t prepare you for life? •Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Viola’s a Platonist? Who knew?

Live and learn, Petey. This growing up business is hard work, and frequently unpleasant. Mind Viola. She seems to like you.

Some people are adults before they learn to accept that ideal won’t exist in the real world.

They are the perfect couple.

“Oh, no Petey, not that door…”(Rumble… Crash… Thumpa Thumpa Thumpa, Tinkle, Plink!)- With fond remembrance to “Fibber McGee and Molly”

It’s too deep

These two were made for each other. (Literally.)

I couldn’t help but think of Mr. Whoopi’s closet in the Tenesee Tuxedo cartoons. Every time he needed his 3D blackboard for a demonstration it was in the closet and Tenesee would yell a warning just as he opened the door and everything fell out.

Petey needs to get locker packing lessons from Big Nate so the locker will explode properly.

Peter’s locker was what we used to call a “blivvy” in the ’40’s and ’50’s.