Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 24, 2025

Do us ALL a favor Cranky and retire …… STAT!!!!!

:-)

I have 37 years in. I would retire but I need the health insurance. So 7 more years to go. If S.S. and Medicare are still around then.

Because of the new boss and his budget cuts in pay.

Well, I’ll be…It looks like a second straight week of Cranky starring in his own strip! Good to see ya, Ed!

“I’ve been contemplating retirement for the past three decades…ever since I turned 75!”

Ed Crankshaft should have retired 3 decades ago. Although he picks up elementary school children, he hates them as bus passengers.

I didn’t officially retire. A person who hated me assaulted me from behind and hit me in the head several times. That was back in August 1993. I tried to work in September, but could only work one day.

Of course, you have your comic strip to fall back on.

It’s like Tom WANTS us to snark on the strip… I mean, c’mon, this is like an open invitation.

thank you to those that are contributing

Umm… How long have this strip been running?

Don’t do it The mailbox repair folks need you for there lively hood!

I guess Ed’s back is better.

Crankshaft is 100 years old!

I always had the impression bus driving was a part time thing he did after he retired. But I guess he’s a career bus driver.

Yep……everybody does the “countdown” …….but they never quit!!!!!!!

Tyre and re tyre is part of bus driving, Cranky.

I gave today’s strip a “like,” because it’s not a continuation of yesterday!

rename this strip wheres the joke there never is one

I started in 2012, and there was one driver who would say “This is my last year.” every year. He didn’t retire until the year we came back after COVID.

I’m already collecting a pension from the state, so I can’t get one from the school, but those that work at least 10 years of service credits (pro-rated because it’s part-time for most, will get a state pension. We have more than one driver who “retired” from the job, then “start back” the next day, with no loss in seniority, and they get their pension, plus pay for the job. No more pension credits though. It’s getting to be a pretty good job, because there’s such a shortage of drivers, they pay us well, and take good care of us. Let the guy who doesn’t believe me start ranting in 3, 2, …

Which is why the students and their parents have been sweating it for the past three decades, wondering will Ed EVER RETIRE?