Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 09, 2023

It’s amazing how quickly plastic bag trash has disappeared from where I live (Portland, Oregon) since grocery stores, restaurants and retailers stopped giving customers single-use plastic bags (with certain narrow exceptions). Still plenty of trash around, mind you, but it’s a start.

Beni’s gotta start lookin’ around for some new friends.

Might be related to Charlie Brown’s kite eating tree

I love Dill’s conviction…….

Logic, Beni, logic…………………….I mean geesh! Of course the shrug ate someone.

See them tumbling down,

Pledging their love to the ground!

Lonely, but free, I’ll be found,

Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

I’ve noticed that plastic bags often grow on trees over the winter.

Our local Aldi’s could open up a plastic recycling plant with the plastic bags in their shrubs (in fairness – I think it is due to their proximity to a Wally World).

“Buyer beware”.

Being a nascent shopping cart herder, Dill knows these things.

Reminds me of myself and my pre-junior-high girlfriend. We wanted to be Nancy Drew (teenage detective) and saw mysteries EVERYwhere. Such fun.

For once, Beni is (trying to be) the Voice of Reason, while Dill is blatantly wrong! Plastic bags unwisely discarded always blow into trees or shrubs!

I guess Alice eventually graduated to social media, given all the conspiracy theories there are.