The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 19, 2023

Brutus found a not-crowded beach.

♪   Ring around the rosie

It would have to be Zombie Apocalypses serious for the boss to be calling you!

Too hot to handle?

When I worked at the USPS as a city carrier, they had a trick…when you call in drunk (sick) the PM would call me back and tell me to come in and case my mail then I could be drunk (sick)…THAT only happened once. If I were sober enough to case my mail? That was the hardest part of the day

WTG, Brutus!

“Call forwarding”

I’m with you Brutus …. you didn’t tell the boss you’d Answer that phone!

“Take a few extras days off Brutus, things are going pretty smoothly here. In fact …. “

Do they still make those nylon strap chairs. I hated them growing up. They were uncomfortable. Left weird patterns on your skin and there were always a couple of broken threads poking in your back or legs.

I wonder what ringtone he uses for the boss? The theme from Jaws?

Maybe he just felt the phone could handle the emergency.

No, really, this huge Seagull swooped down and snatched my phone. He must have smelled the grease from all the French fries I was gorging on. (Would it be effective at all for a sun screen? We can hope.)

The phone call was from Gladys. She called to tell you that you forgot your sunscreen.

Chief was calling to tell Mr. Brutus to take rest month off. Work running like well oiled clock.

Must be in Lower Slobovia.

Good for Brutus for pitching the phone, but Veeblefester is probably watching him from the cabana…

is the phone gonna have an unfortunate accident… or is he gonna eat it. :j

Brutus thinks on the fly .

Atta boy Brutus…atta boy!

My boss wanted me to carry my cell phone on vacation. He also wanted me to list my phone number on the office personnel list (it had our desk phones, pagers, and cell phone numbers). I told him that I’d be happy to when he decided to pay for my cell phone. But even if he did I’d have left the cell phone at home.

Good for you, Brutus!

One out of two isn’t bad. It is paradise if you can spend your vacation ‘days’ at the beach without your wife AND your phone tagging along with you!

He is sitting upwind from Momma!

Why did he even bring that phone? And, if he did, why didn’t he shut down the ringer?

I’m sure it is not the Chief calling Brutus, mote like a telemarketer

Yes!!! Way to go Brutus!! And you can always tell him the cell reception was really bad there! ; )

Are we sure that is really Brutus? He is a bit out of character. Did Mama show up again?

“Sorry boss, but reception was really bad out there, I couldn’t even order a pizza.”

If the chief always claims he is incompetent then why would he need him when there’s a problem?

And your cellphone can solve the problem just like you promised…..

Well, he didn’t say he would answer it

There shouldn’t be any problems since Brutus is on holidays.

If a problem needed to be sorted out Brutus would be the last person he would call. Brutus needs a break (from the chief).