Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 17, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    Life can SCREW you in so many different ways.

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    gocomics  over 5 years ago

    Vaguely reminiscent of when Dilbert created a list of what he had that someone else didn’t. As Dogbert pointed out, “so far, you have remorse, envy, and the list itself”

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    jvn  over 5 years ago

    Screwed again.

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    DennisinSeattle  over 5 years ago

    “DREAM” of getting the right screw next time.

    “HOPE” it does the job.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 5 years ago

    how complicating

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    Bilan  over 5 years ago

    As they say, life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

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    jackhammer165  over 5 years ago

    That sort of day is a little too familiar!

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    SonicFan91  over 5 years ago

    Home Depot is from Timmy Failure Steve

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    Yontrop  over 5 years ago

    Next time, write down what kind of screw you need instead of making lists that don’t seem to help you.

    When I make a “to-do list”, I often forget to look at it. Putting “look at to-do list” on the list doesn’t seem to help.

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    Ksandler4570  over 5 years ago

    The True Pearls fan knows this is a rerun.

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    Breadboard  over 5 years ago

    Plan your work …. Work your plan … Croc Power !

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    Troglodyte  over 5 years ago

    Any which way, you’re screwed, Pig!

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    uniquename  over 5 years ago

    Pig, you screwed up again, but that’s what happens when you have a screw loose.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Why does life keep interfering with life?” is brilliant.

    “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life." – C. S. Lewis

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    vics_machine Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Life is life… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATX-lV0VFk

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    phoenix  over 5 years ago

    Plumbing. Plumbing always takes six trips to the DIY store.

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    BiathlonNut  over 5 years ago

    One time while I was walking through the main office to the mail room, I found a few screws on the floor. Picking them up I observed that one could always use a few extra screws. A nearby secretary, a rather observant religious woman, looked at me with a beet red face and asked if I wasn’t getting enough at home. She later told me, “Embarrassing? Yes. But I couldn’t resist that open line.”

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    Tentoes  over 5 years ago

    That’s how it goes!

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    Nuke Road Warrior  over 5 years ago

    Every do it yourself project requires at least three trips to Home Depot. One to get the wrong part, one to exchange the wrong part for the right part, and one to get the part you forgot the first time.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Am I the rare male who likes to shop? Everything from Saks to local thrift stores. I don’t go nuts, I just enjoy shopping. There are times I will run in for one or two items and actually buy only those items! Being retired helps. Plenty of time.

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    TheWildSow  over 5 years ago

    I’m suddenly getting a bunch of Home Depot ads!

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    COL Crash  over 5 years ago

    So it isn’t so easy that we don’t have to work on it constantly.

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    Dis-play name  over 5 years ago

    Measure twice, cut once, say “Oh F**k!” three times and go back to the Home Depot.

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    Rotary12 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    That was my life yesterday, but it was plumbing, not screws.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 5 years ago

    I have a screw loose.

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    Ermine Notyours  over 5 years ago

    Reminds me of the days of paper gift certificates. You get a $50 gift certificate for Home Depot. But you don’t want anything from Home Depot, so you buy a three cent screw and get $49.97 in change. Then you go to the customer service desk and return the screw for three cents. Stores caught on to this and have started to issue gift debit cards instead.

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

    Life, the screwdriver.

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    rgcviper  over 5 years ago

    “We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”

    — Johnny Depp

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    Cornelius Noodleman  over 5 years ago

    I have done the exact same thing, gone to Home Depot, bought the wrong screw, and had to go back!

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    Concretionist  over 5 years ago

    Have you ever tried to find just the right screw at Home Deposit? They have about 30 or 40 feet of screws in bins about 6 feet high and they never have exactly the screws I want in the quantity I want. OTOH, if I go to my friendly (yes, they are) local hardware store, they have half as much shelf space and 5 times as many different screws. At a slightly highre price… if you could have found a box of #6 star-drive pan-head machine screws 5/8 inch long at HD in the first place.

    Bottom line: Big box stores sell relatively few items and have a lot of each of them for sale whereas my local hardware store sells a lot of items and has only relatively few of each of them for sale.

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    Sisyphos  over 5 years ago

    Pig seizes Life. Life seizes Pig. Pig is screwed, Rat chirps.

    That’s Life in the PBS lane, folks!

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    lenrph  over 5 years ago

    I love Pig, the optimistic dreamer; but always colliding with the pessimistic realist Rat. I suppose Pig and Rat are in each of our minds and although I relate more to Pig, I always encounter Rat.(sigh). Let me go back under the blanket of happiness.

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