That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 16, 2019

Before hiring an interior decorator it might be a good idea to check out their place.

Trying to figure out how much can go in the overhead compartment.

Starter:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/6861853734/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/6861853734/sizes/o/

“This stuff in the trunk isn’t junk! What? You meant ME?” SLAP!

As she waited for her Uber, Rose hoped the sedative she gave Charles prior to packing him in the trunk would last through customs.

“Dear, I already prepared my luggage for the weekend in Miami.”

This was her a few years earlier…

https://mouseinterrupted.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/norman-rockwell-home-from-camp.jpg

Rose was told that her ship was coming in and she should be ready.

But unfortunately, Rose doesn’t understand what a metaphor is.

You’ll never get me alive, Kondô!

That’s the trunk I was born in in Pocatello, Idaho.

“Well, that’s another marriage over with.”

“All dressed-up and nowhere to go!!!”

e-harmony got their idea from the back page of Godey’s Lady’s Book: “I’m looking for a long-term relationship with a good man who can keep me in the manner to which I wish to become accustomed. No beards, no ruffians, no game-players. Now come find me!”

You call that hoarding? I’ll show you hoarding!

Take out the papers and the trash, or you don’t get no spendin’ cash, bring in the dog and put out the cat, yackity-yack. Don’t talk back.

After being expelled from college for sorority hazing, Jeannie waits for her parent’s chauffeur to pick her up.

“Oo-ee oo-ee baby, Won’t you let me take you on a sea cruise”

Every issue is a special collector’s edition.

This lady is sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven…..but “Where the hell are my porters?”

Too cheap to tip the bellman, Hortense keeps watch over the luggage while her husband takes it piecemeal to their room on the 10th floor.

More delays at Gatwick because of drones/terror threats/strikes

“Going to keep an appointment she’s made, meeting a man from the motor trade..”

Matilda is a perfect example of why the airlines were forced to enact stricter carry-on policies.

It’s at the National Gallery, London, not on display. And indeed, the lady is traveling, waiting for customs inspection. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/antonio-mancini-the-customs. Check out the hi-res version at https://curiator.com/art/antonio-mancini/the-customs, where you can catch some content from her book and her newspapers. By the standards of the day, probably a terrorist!

When she showed up, the TSA personnel who hadn’t yet “called in sick” walked off the job.

Going on a trip, the trunk she is sitting on holds the shoe collection.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

She was told it was a “long and winding road” she had to travel…

The Customs: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Mancini_-_The_Customs.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/mancini_antonio.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2236 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/antonio-mancini 

https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/mancini.php 

https://books.google.com/books?id=HTOQ2A5_j1EC&pg=PA518#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Antonio_Mancini.html 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2117 (January 15, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

To say Matilda was disappointed with her new drum kit would be an understatement.

She told them she had nothing to declare. What on earth could be causing the hold up?

“Yes, dear, I know it’s just a day trip. That’s what I packed for.”

She’s just spotted them putting on the black latex gloves.

“A cavity search? Thanks for the offer, but I saw the dentist just last week and he said I was cavity-free.”

I looked everywhere and can’t find my fancy headband.

If this is considered hoarding, I am in big trouble.

molly after waiting three days for her new husband to help her move to his house, began to worry, that he left town in a hurry, right after the wedding.not again she lamented.

Maybe just a beginner hoarder.