Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 18, 2022

Overs and Shorts.

A different kind of package store today.

And Ludwig photobombs the last panel.

There’s nothing like fresh shrinkage on grocery shopping day. It’s like having your own food sampling station at home.

Contents settle during shipping.

Famous Seinfeld line…Jerry – “Do women know about shrinkage”? Elaine – “You mean like laundry”?

We all know Arlo is looking at Janis’s butt in the first frame.

A few days ago, Janis had a summer bug or “something.” I am right there with her. COVID in December 2020, first round of Moderna, and then booster. COVID hit me again this past Sunday, although not as badly as 2020.

Anyone else enjoying the plague a second or third time?

In panel 1 Arlo is thinking about that plumbing chore he has to complete.

When we loaded supplies for a patrol on a submarine some items like cookies and nuts seemed to disappear in transient from the top of the ship to stores.

The potato chip bag is usually opened before I even start the car to drive home.

“You know how the boss feels about individual pilferage!” – from On The Waterfront.

Been quite a few years since I last heard that phrase. Kind of like saying something being sold very cheap is that “it fell off the back of the truck”

Arlo is enjoying the view in the first panel.

My wife and I call it ‘shipping and handling’

Ask George Costanza about “shrinkage”…

Would pick up imports from the docks for the company I used to work for and it was excepted that the shipment would be short some products, so janis must know some dock workers.

I saw the neopolitian oreo cookies yesterday. Couldn’t wait to try them. Not my cuppa. The artificial strawberry flavor left an aftertaste. Now looking for someone to give the rest to. Most likely social hour at church. Wish they’d bring back the chocolate chip cookie dough oreos. Now THOSE were good!

My dad used to take me down to Navy Pier to watch the freighters getting unloaded. One day there was a ship’s cargo of Johnny Walker and fireworks. The longshoremen were all wearing overalls that were about 3 sizes too large and were helping themselves to the contents of some crates that had oh, so accidently been torn open by their grappling hooks…

He never took me back to the pier.

(Obviously this was back before the age of shiping containers)

i’ll add that what didn’t fit inside those longshoremen’s oversized coveralls was liberated by the ship’s captain & mates.