Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 29, 2022

Tales of insignificant woe

Cheer up Clara, just pretend that your worshipers are are offering you burnt sacrifices.

Here’s a toast to small victories. Oh, crap!

Arthur’s day is off to a bad start.

Nothing foretells a bad day like a bad breakfast. Nothing.

He should cheer up. It’s his lucky day. With that much smoke, the house could have gone up, or the fire alarm could have wakened Madge before noon. Both would have been real disasters.

Haven’t we talked to him about the folly of wearing Madge’s negligee?

Nothing to get so bleak about, at least nothing that is occurring in Arthur’s kitchen. You burnt some toast. Big deal. There’s more where that came from. Unplug it, clean it out and maybe off, and try round 2 – on a lower setting.

Burnt toast??? makes your hair curl :)

It’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse… no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies… the shoelace that snaps with no time left. Charles Bukowski

love burnt toast

Come on you guys, this is Clara, not Arthur… As in Oldpine’s comment near the top.

She’s wearing a feather trimmed negligee, she has female hands, and you can see her..um… chest shape.

She’s just a bit jowly.

NOT to be confused with jolly.

…..

Meanwhile, that toaster might be toast.

At the start of the day, burnt toast can be a bad omen for the rest of the day.

The toast is just a way to melt the butter and warm the jelly.

Ironically, de feet on dis one ain’t small…

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I hate it when the bread gets too dark. I always stand there and spring it up myself after a moment or two. I like toast that is white bread just starting to change color.

Not enough jam in that jar to turn this morning around, best you go back to bed.

Not to mention the smokey-ness. The stench of defeat varies. Toast really isn’t so bad. When you burn beans, everyone on the block knows about it. :)

At least it’s not the agony of de feets

So help me I have NEVER found a toaster that doesn’t burn something regardless of what you do with so called controls.