Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 21, 2017

You never know when a pair of giant gloves will come in handy.

Gloria Wellbottom hates their “gotchas”. They should be ejected from the Walking Club.

I wonder if they can clap.

First and Third, maybe?

The Baxter brothers were only one grade behind the Bellamy twins at Ballard Street Farriers and Technical High.

Even though it was an 11th grade class, the four of them all took Mr. Lamont’s Advanced Welding and Leatherwork the same semester….

and discovered a kinship that, perhaps, only other twins understand.

They were good buddies for a few years….

until that dust-up over Mary Lou Simmons (now Mary Lou Baxter, you see…. )

Ever since, each set has wreaked its own separate mischief …

leading most of us to be glad they didn’t grow up as a solid foursome.

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I am assuming they took proctology as their life’s work.

They give a whole new meaning to the term “glad handing” !

I wonder what they might be trying to compensate for.

They’d keep me behind locked doors.

When the Baxter Brothers say they just want to give you a neighborly hand up, you gotta wonder… “up what”?

Buster and Brixley Baxter is about to receive their comeuppance. Barton Bellamy is coming up the street behind them, and he owns Bruno, that huge Alsatian who is miffed when Brixley attempted to pet him with that stupid suede glove, got tangled in his 9 inch long fur and had to be cut loose. Bruno then had to endure the snickers of the other neighborhood dogs for six long weeks. Bruno wants his BITE!!!

They both get a little Handsy at times!

Not the Bellamy twins?