Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 20, 2024

Little disappointed in our hero. I have somehow lived to a ripe age without once feeling that urge.

Do you think he just learned an important lesson?

He did it wrong. You’re supposed to do that to someone else’s car.

Janis has no sense of humor

Okay

He isn’t cutting through dust, he is cutting through pollen! My grey deck is now yellow thanks to pollen, and my car is absolutely covered in it.

I’m glad I have a garage. No snow in the winter, no pollen in the spring, no hot seats in the summer, and no acorn dents in the fall.

Hoist with his own petard.

Ask and ye shall receive.

I hear Rose Royce singing: Car Wash.

That is why I write “I Love You” on my wifes window.

Hoisted by his own petard.

Arlo tried to impress Janis……..

At least he didn’t write, “Repair Me!”

I’m afraid to wash my 30-year-old banger truck. I’m pretty sure the mud is the only thing holding it together!

Makes me think of Jim Croce. “Workin’ at the car wash blues” (YouTube)

It looks like a “grocery-getter”. Who manually washes those? Just run it through the car wash.

The message should be written backwards so it can be read thru the rear view mirror.

Never tempt the Fates…..

He should have written, “Test dirt. Do not clean.”

No trap so dangerous as the one you dig yourself.

I have a much greater tolerance for a bit of dirt on my car than husband does on his, so he’s the one who says to me “Your car needs a wash”. I generally shrug my shoulders and say I’ll get around to it eventually — which I absolutely would, if he ever gave me the chance. Instead I’ll notice he’s not in the house and go track him down — out in the driveway, washing my car. He’s happy to do it and I’m happy to have him do it, so I count that as a win-win.

And I just learned an interesting fact about the software used for this comment section. I tried to type win-slash-win there above, only to be warned that “URLs are not allowed in comments”. Um, what? But it wouldn’t let me post with the single slash there.

My husband never notices any work that needs to be done. That way he never has to do any work. Getting pretty tired of his lazy routine after 30 years. He is retired and has plenty of free time.

Arlo, are you going to tell me you didn’t see that coming?

Note to self.

I still like the one I saw 45+ years ago: I am a dirty old back window.

My dad once wrote “Clean Me” in the dust on a mirror in our hallway. My mom, being the dutiful 1950s wife she was, cleaned it instead of handing him a dustrag, like I would have done.