Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 11, 2022

Meanwhile, their cats are at home using their favorite shoes as litter boxes.

Where’s denial crocodiles when you need them?

I deny I read that…

They’re all pointing the fingers at each other. “I didn’t do it, he did it!” Meantime, they hide in their boxes of shame.

Roll call would be a little strange.

The first rule of The Denial Club is to deny it exists.

Can I be a member?

… and they don’t just meet on a river in Africa.

Is the premise that each denies themselves something they would ordinarily be consuming/using/doing? I see a pipe, and a cup & saucer. For the others, it could be something like reading, since there are no lights in the boxes.

No they don’t.

I don’t think they ever confirmed that.

No we don’t.

Founded December 26th.

No we don’t.

Seeee? It’s not just a river in Egypt.

All the lonely people…oh where do they go………….

“Is this the ‘Denial Club’?”

“No, it isn’t!”

“Great! Can I join?”

“No!”

“Fantastic! Do you have a box for me?”

“Over there… I mean, no!”

Fraid the shoes give their identity away.

The club does seem to have corporate sponsors for their boxes.

All those boxes and not a one from Amazon. I’m not buying it

The guy in the center-left box apparently denies that smoking a pipe inside of a flammable box is a bad idea.

They deny that they attended.