Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for April 26, 2024

Better flee now!

Sure! You like trash TV? I LOVE trash TV.

I’m unfamiliar with rat hierarchy. I would think he’d have exciting stories about his ports of call and sinking ships he had abandoned. She makes him sound lower than a sewer rat.

Fact is, he was never in a Bilg or on a ship. He gets seasick.

“Well, I have a cousin that works in a lab.”

Rata-poo-ee.

“I don’t know what to tell you baby, it’s a rat race out there.”

When she asked where he lived he said there were a lot of seamstresses there.

Bilges in the fuel-oil era are not friendly to rats or any other life. Norse rats are the world-wide problem, & they mostly traded woolen textiles. It’s the grain shipments that get you.

Sure, if she’ll quit taking about sewers…..

Let’s agree to talk about dumpsters instead

“Bilge? Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you said you were a roadie for Mary J Blige!

She put him on hold, and that keeled the conversation.

He is proud of getting promoted out of the sewer.

“Hey, respect a veteran! I fought in the Battle of the Bilge!”

Next date he’ll take her to the subway for pizza.

And this one time at bilge camp…

OK, there’s a dumpster out back of the liposuction clinic that…….

“OK, did I tell you my Mom works at NIHM? And I have an Uncle who is Of Unusual Size”

Wonder what’s for dinner??!!