Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 02, 2024

Good one!

I couldn’t find my windshield washer fluid. I didn’t want to go to the store on Black Friday, so maybe I’ll buy some today.

All my problitos have become probmuchos!

Do Problitos come in different flavors, or only nacho cheese?

Get some dipping sauce for your problitos…

My life is filled with problitos too… OMG, I’m a Pig!

(Should have listened to my mother. “You are what you eat.”)

Spouse has a favored bathroom that’s close to both the bedrooms and the rest of the house. It has one of those door-stops that you use by pulling a hinge-pin and putting it back on through the hole in the device. When the door is opened too far, one arm of the device hits the door, the other end hits the trim on the door jamb… and you can screw the jamb-arm in or out to adjust how far it’s allowed to open. That device became so old that the rubber bumper on the jamb-arm rotted off and the device became “rattly”.

Guess what you can’t buy: One of those little rubber bumpers.

Guess what you CAN buy (for a bit less than $3.00): A brand new door stopper that’s badly designed (the arms aren’t angled correctly) so it will scar both the door and the jamb if someone slams the door open.

Guess how much two of those little rubber stoppers cost me. Yep: A little less than $3. Ridiculous… but Spouse is happier. And I currently have a spare…

Conclusion: One person’s problito is another one’s action item.

The back door of my house squeaks when being opened or closed, plus the catch is very slightly too tight which means it makes a noise if you don’t either push, or pull the door (Depending which way you’re going through) slightly when you operate the handle.

I adjusted the catch to be like this, and I won’t oil the hinges of the door to make it open silently.

Why? Well it’s so if I’m not in the kitchen, where the door is, I can hear if the door is being opened by a (Possibly unwanted) visitor. I also adjusted the side gate of a neighbour’s house to make noise when the latch was operated, for the same reason.

A wee bit of oil will get rid of the squeak!

WD40 to the rescue.

If only.

Ain’t that the truth.

Shouldn’t Rat be saying the word “@$$”?

The problem: problitos become problotes…

Problitos are aslo know as a SEP , Somebody ‘s else’s problem !

Nice, a new word for a Monday!

Rat just added a new word to the dictionary.

Cool Ranch Problitos, please!

I read about this true story in a book about unusual law cases.

A man would occasionaly visit an acquaintance and would afterwards leave by the back door, as it was convenient. That door was somewhat warped and opened with great difficulty – he had to hold the latch and hit it hard with his shoulder to open it. But he was used to it, and this situation went on for some time.

Then one day the homeowner decided to get the door fixed, which he did. But he neglected to tell his friend on his next visit, so when the man left he as usual slammed forcefully into the door, which now opeded without resistance. He went flying out through the doorway, across the patio and into a swimming pool, sustaining some injury in the process. (Sounds almost like a script for Laurel & Hardy.)

He sued the homeowner in civil court, contending that he should have been informed of the repair. He lost the case, the judge stating that home repairs go on all the time, and there is no obligation to inform others.

For that door noise you go find your tool box & open it up, your two choices are duct tape or WD-40. Grab the WD-40 and squirt all the door hinges in the house.

You elevated the task to “maintenance” (from a problito), and everyone knows that maintenance needs to be done from time to time..

Just a new name for the Good Old Honey Do List ;-)

It was a problito just reading all that.

Wife informed me of a chirping smoke detector this morning. I’ll be getting that fixed, they are so annoying.

Daylight savings time! I will know the world is fixable when we eliminate that.

I bought a very old house in 2001. The doors squeaked — ALL of them. I sprayed the hinges with G96 oil. From that day on every door moved silently and effortlessly. I moved out in 2018 without ever having to reapply the oil.

When I was in my early teens, say about 1964, my parents bought me a good wooden desk which I still have. The bottoms of the drawers were so rough that, once I had loaded them down with reference books, it was a struggle to open them. Fifteen years later I learned to rub paraffin wax onto the runners, both frame and drawers. The drawers still open with a single finger.

No problitos.

Problito, ergo sum !

I need to fix my problitos in life… I’m just too lazy.

The problitos are what I focus on when I don’t want to deal with a big problem.

If a problem survives long enough without a solution it is no longer a problem, but status quo, e.g., immigration.

New word to annoy everyone. with today!

A lot of problems solve themselves if given enough time

If the door fell off its hinges, then that would warrant as an actual problem.

The aggressively intrusive new ads on this site are ruining it, and they seem to be crashing it as well.

I thought it was the door…

It was my knees…

I have a new word to describe most of my todo list.

If it’s a problem with a door, shouldn’t it be a dorlitos

A problito is a small problem, like a Dorito is a small dor

Too small to get you off your “Keister”…..That’s the censored word.

Problitos can accumulate into a giant problem.

No Problimpo

A few drops of baloney juice, all fixed.

And here I thought it was a Doggy Dogg World…….

Huh, I like it.

Oxford has their Word-of-the-Year and now Pastis has his.

Rat, life in a nutshell ♥

It’s a Problito Problito Problito Problito World.

“Problems, problems, problems, all day long”-Everly Brothers

Great new word – I love it and will use it!

The stuff to deal with problitos is in the cabinet under the sink. Where you forgot you put it.

I hope “problito” makes it into the dictionary like “embiggen” did!

It’s always a little disturbing when Rat is right.

“Problito” will never take the place of “Supercalifragilistic expialidocious”.

That is an entire mood