Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 11, 2022

Wait, I’m supposed to say that…..

Yeah, it’s a dying business.

He’s the last one to let them down.

Mort: The next person who says that about my loss, I’ll tell them to “Drop dead!”

But don’t you have some well grounded assets, Mort?

I don’t solicit business

There’s no point in trying

What I like about my customers

They just keep on dying.

If you want to succeed in the mortuary business you have to make a killing.

Does anyone remember a poster from the sixties of two buzzards sitting in a dead tree in the dessert and one is saying “Patience my a$$, I’m going to kill something”?

Nice thoughts, Cosmo. But betcha you don’t want to do anything to improve Mort’s economics.

Don’t know if it’s still true, but at one time the businesses least likely to fail were funeral homes. Bars were on the other end of the business success continuum.

Really? With the pandemic, I figured you were making a killing!

Not going in the hole often enough…

Maybe take a wild ride and drum up some business…

Seems an odd choice for a Sept. 11 strip.

Good one!

I do!

Mort answering the phone – Ring, ring:“Mort’s Mortuary!“Some people go to heaven, some people go to hell…“…o! Still there? This is Mort!.”