Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 22, 2021

Maybe Google Maps can get Pig’s life back on the right direction.

And you don’t need a GPS.

He must have made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

Didn’t know either, Goat.

Accepting directions from one without a compass.

Ever get the feeling your stuck at the end of a dead-end one-way street?

Where did your life go wrong?

I think Rat made my map…

“off route…recalculating “

My map was declared obsolete.

When you get to a fork in the road, take it! (Yogi Berra) !

Rat’s life doesn’t appear to be much better.

If Pig didn’t have any bad luck, he wouldn’t have no luck at all!

Rat how did you get out of Poncho’s Jail on Pooch Cafe ?

I’m trapped on a “No Exit” road.

And here I thought Pig’s life was generally directionless…

And then you find that person that builds a bridge for you and it’s all sunshine and puppy dogs. <3

It’s called a resume

That’s okay, Pig. You missed the bacon street and pork chops lane. Otherwise you’d has another sort of dead end by now.

I know where lives take a wrong turn. I’ve been there, in that crossroads. You are doing OK, going through Independence Avenue towards Happiness Highway. It’s difficult at times and it gets really dark in the corner of Marriage Road. Turning there looks tempting, it’s wide and super bright, there’s everything you’ve ever needed and wanted, and everything looks brand new. But it’s a trap, it lasts for about a mile only. After that, it turns into a very narrow road. Not even a road, a poorly maintained dirt path. That’s when you realize that it’s only one way and a downward slope straight to hell. And don’t get fooled by Divorce Road, it may look like it’s turning up all the way to Independence Avenue but it’s another trap. It goes to the same place and it’s a very long and difficult toll road. Trust me. If you see the sign for Death Canyon, take a hard turn there and ditch! :D

I can identify with all that….

When are we gonna see Zebra or the Crocs or Snuffles?

I’m in this comic and I don’t like it!

Pig has nowhere to go and all day to get there.

Pig’s life is a question mark.

Really creepy if it shows where it ends but at least he’ll know his final destination and hopefully it doesn’t have anything to do with Oscar Myer.

It’s not a dead end, it’s a cul-de-sac.

Actually, that sounds like a potentially enlightening exercise, might reveal some interesting patterns.

Wish i could buy one of those…

Does it show a cul-de-sac can be a turning point?

Going up, taking a right, followed by two lefts makes a question mark shape. That was intended, 100%.

Glad to see that Rat made it out of Pouch Cafe in one piece.

These maps are always delivered far to late.

We’re all going to reach a dead end someday.

OK. Since no one else said it: “You can’t get there from here”…

and that dead end be in a Pastis toon. Stephan should be ashamed of shaming the critters who provide your sustenance.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

So one can just blame AAA for your unproductive life!

Throw away t hat outdated paper map.Use a GPS and really get lost.

GPS stands for “Getting Permanently Sabotaged”.

I don’t need a map. My problem is that I never got into gear. Never made it to the highway.

At 78, this long retired engineer would need a 3D Printer.

Pig should be sure to avoid the Slauson Cutoff.

I think I have one of those.

Pity, so few people study psychocartography (an offshoot of Hari Selden’s specialty)….

never felt that way