Close to Home by John McPherson for March 16, 2021

After that comment. Instead of finishing the wall i’d be tempted to hit him with a brick.

Mike’s thought balloon: Build That Wall, Build That Wall

Notice Bleeb is frantically trying to hit the escape button

Bleeb’s handling the Zoom conference.

May be time to brick that annoying guy in with no exit door.

Good idea Mike but your neighbor will just jump the wall…

The desk of Amontillado?

Easy now, Mike. Remember what Poe left you to understand with his wall story.

Mike: “If I don’t finish this wall soon, I will …”

If the coworker doesn’t move his hands soon, he may become part of the wall (or at least attached to it)

This joke is so 2019.

If he hurries he can include the co-worker’s fingers in the wall

Never mind the wall. Slap that cement on his mouth.

that wall, might not be tall enough. try building a ceiling with the wall with no doors or windows.

I think a 10 foot high wall might be sufficient?

And then what happened next…?

Dobie!

My wife tells me she could use that wall at work. There are some people that think work is for talking all day. She puts headphones on and pretends not to hear anyone while she is working.

Mike should be thankful his co-worker didn’t save that story for lunch, but poor Mike will still have to endure a informative explanation of his co-worker’s biorhythms.

An inflamed cyst in the armpit must have been painful. I think I saw that on Dr Pimple Popper’s YouTube channel last week.

I wanna be Mike when I grow up

Well, in keeping with the new reality of isolation and general disease hygiene, good on you Mike. Good fences make good neighbors.

Bleeb can serve as HR and look after the complaint.

Look at the size of that cubicle! I have cubicle envy…

My least favorite is the guy who walks around with a coffee cup in his hand telling everyone how crushingly busy he is.

Someone once said: “All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.”

I think his name was Floyd, and he worked over in Maintenance.

Or you could work from home

I think I saw that episode of Dr. Pimple Popper.

Gee! I would think Mike might want to know what happens when that pus-filled cyst explodes. But then, not everybody enjoys a good story.

Someone’s not getting the hint.

Bleeb’s the boss!

What’s with the surge in The Cask of Amontillado references in the comics?

I actually had one of those cysts! It didn’t get as big as a softball, but I did press on it and have the pus come out. My dad had a cancerous tumor under his arm that got that big, though. Then he got that removed but it just came right back. He was gone six months later.

Work at home, Mike!

Like the Cask of Amontillado, By Edgar Allan Poe.

For a desk jockey he has stellar bricklaying skills.