Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 19, 2018

c’mon, Viola, it was an honest mistake (I hope she wasn’t making her other classmates’ and the music teacher’s ears also ring)

It’s usually the boy who gives the girl a ring.

@ern: Except the ring she installs in his nose!!

She is shaped like a viola, or a cello.

And, BTW, Viola, you’ve been saying HIS name wrong all along and HES’S not throwing a tantrum.

Poor Petey. It’ll probably be years before he attempts to give a girl a compliment again.

Definitely a xylophone if it goes Brang! A marimba would go boooong!

I have a glockenspiel – does that count?

With those ears he should be able to hear up into the ultrasonics.

Whoa! Easy there, Viola! It was an honest mistake, and Petey is a very sensitive boy….

Ay Carumba!