Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 24, 2021

You don’t want to now where she would like to put those thumb drives Winslow.

—) I would guess the gift list would mostly involve food. Since coyotes are omnivores, anything that lives in the desert is desirable as “ethnic.” That means voles, mice, rabbits, squirrels, birds, lizards, and snakes. Cactus fruits appeal to a coyote’s sweet tooth. Mail order food samplers catering to various canid tastes are available on the Internet.

Aged carrion products are sent packed in dry ice to preserve their proper stench. Of course, coyotes in metro areas may appreciate gift certificates for fine dining at select dumpsters. (Small-pet samplers are considered déclassé and decadent — but are found on the “dark web.”) (—

Seems that Carmen and Winslow are always on the run between a rock and a hard spot every day. Strange.

The true meaning of Christmas, right?

Ordering two months and a day for delivery before Christmas, sounds about right nowadays. Even now, I’m experiencing delivery delays, and even lost items, very frequently, so I can’t even imagine what a nightmare it will be closer to Christmas.

And the Fauci, with his Fauci-flip-flop voice, ice cold on the tube,stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It will come without ribbons. It will come without tags. It will come without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Fauci thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more

The wife, who no longer drives, used the ‘two thumb drive technique’ to drive. Hands at 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock when holding the steering wheel with her thumbs and fingers extended. Never took Driver’s Ed class that I know of . . . maybe home schooled and her mother didn’t drive. . . . /S

Every year retailers try to get the Christmas buying season to start earlier and earlier… this year their excuse is shipping problems… and partisans jump on the bandwagon in order to try to “win” against their opponents… sad how all of these people forget what Christmas is supposed to be celebrating…