Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 12, 2018

kids’ll be kids

Dill & Alice are destined for each other. They think alike.

Couldn’t make it for one minute.

Ah, to be a kid again!

Cul de sac is a planned neighborhood. Probably with a HOA. All the houses the same and the same colors, no toys in the yard or cars in the driveways. No unique trees or shrubery…I’m thinking that all of them just running home would result in some of them ending up in the wrong house even on a good day.

The adult version involves happy hour.

When I was a kid, we’d be doing something and someone would shout, “DIZZY ROOM!” and everyone would have to stop what they were doing and start spinning. The last to fall down was the winner.

It’s even more fun if you eat a bowl of Fruit Loops before playing.

Perfect time for the ut oh baby to show up.

I see that Cul de Sac has a cookie-cutter housing development like the old Levittown had. A five-minute spin could easily send a kid to the wrong house! (I lived for a while in a Chicagoland suburban neighborhood something like that; but I was 8 or 9, not 4.)

Did anyone ever notice that Alice has Michael Doonesbury’s nose? Was Mrs. Otterloop’s maiden name Doonesbury? Michael might be her uncle. And Dill has Snuffy Smith’s nose and hair! Perhaps old Snuffy is his grandfather?