Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for November 06, 2024

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    Bill Thompson  16 days ago

    So the parents buy a new kid every day, and the child is delivered the next day?

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    billsplut  16 days ago

    “We’re now SELLING THEM ONLINE!”

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    Blu Bunny  16 days ago

    Part of the Prime membership deal.

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    J.J. O'Malley  16 days ago

    Why does Lena feel the need to begin every meeting with the school bus drivers by telling them there’s a shortage of school bus drivers? Seems like there’s more new faces every day.

    Also, are we to assume that, instead of running the school buses they own, which can hold 30 or 40 kids and are driven by salaried employees, the school board hired an independent service where they would have to pay for each student separately, with vehicles without seats that look like they could hold 10 kids, tops? Makes perfect sense.

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    Gent  16 days ago

    Whaaat? Really? As if them poor delivery peoples was not already overworked.

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    J.J. O'Malley  16 days ago

    And the reason that Batiuk used a online retailer like Amazon which only delivers its own orders, as opposed to an actual delivery service like FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. Post Office, for today’s knee-slapper of a joke is…?

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    Rhetorical_Question   16 days ago

    Why Amazon?

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    The Orange Mailman  16 days ago

    Years ago it was legal to ship children through USPS.

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    French Persons Premium Member 16 days ago

    Panel 3: what’s with the “Charlie Brown“ shirt?

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    lemonbaskt  15 days ago

    make batiuk read the luann comment section from the beginning of the year and he will quit the business

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member 15 days ago

    Let ’em walk. We did.

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    Blaidd Drwg Premium Member 15 days ago

    Every time she calls a meeting, they all stand in the same spots….Eerie, huh???

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    rockyridge1977  15 days ago

    ……..background check?

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    DawnQuinn1  15 days ago

    Amazon DOES deliver their own packages in specific area. Running out of things to trash are you? lol

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    kmg31  15 days ago

    FREE DELIVERY!!

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    tcayer  15 days ago

    This is so ridiculous. Even without bus drivers, more kids will get to school than Ed ever brought in.

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    Daltongang Premium Member 15 days ago

    NOW is definitely the time for Amazon to use their drone delivery service.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    The solution to the school bus driver shortage is simple—-Clone Crankshaft!

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    tcayer  15 days ago

    Our district outsourced some sports trips to private bus companies. It’s a fiasco. One didn’t show at all, they refuse to stop so the kids can eat after because they “want to get home.” The coaches HATE it! but we don’t have any subs, so what else is there? I work 5 hours a day, 10 months a year, with school holidays and breaks off, and I made over $40 grand! I work concert security in the summer. If NY reinstates the cap on public earnings for state pensioners, I’ll need a waiver or have to cut my hours. So with two part time jobs and my pension, I make over $85,000 a year…

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    Stephen M Dallas  15 days ago

    Okay. This was actually kind of funny.

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    Mopman  15 days ago

    “We can’t get enough bus drivers.” “So we raise the pay to attract more?” “No, we’ll just pay a private industry a fee to deliver each kid individually. That way we spend 10 times the amount.”

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    Mopman  15 days ago

    Three more days of wackiness with not enough bus drivers. What will we see the rest of the week? Wrong answers only. (If that’s even possible, whatever ridiculous things are suggested just may be right.)

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    raybarb44  15 days ago

    It got a laugh from me……

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    James Lindley Premium Member 15 days ago

    This has been a very real thing for the St. Louis public schools this year. They have students taking public transportation.

    My wife is from Seoul, and in Korea, the students were using public transportation to go to and from school back in the 60s and 70s. It’s how my wife went to and from school. They didn’t have school buses.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 15 days ago

    Well, at least Cranky is in two panels……..

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    62kathleenhicks  15 days ago

    As opposed to the USPS Amazon can find ANY address!

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    Null Island  15 days ago

    I actually came pretty close to laughing at this, so kudos today, Tom Batiuk.

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    David Rickard Premium Member 15 days ago

    This is errant nonsense… the parents would have to collect their kids from an Amazon locker.

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    ajakimber425  15 days ago

    Hey! Is that kid wearing a Charlie Brown shirt?

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    DanielClémenson Premium Member 15 days ago

    Education by Jeff Bezos!! I’m not sure that’s good!

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    wjbryan55  15 days ago

    Kid is missing a bar code or QR code sticker.

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