For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 15, 1999
Transcript:
Elly: Keep...toss, keep, toss, keep, toss... Hmmm. Toss. Noise: Thump! Beep, beep beep. Edgar: Bowowowowowf! Noise: Beep, beeeep, beep, eeeep, bweeeeek, bip, bip, bep. Edgar: Bowf! Owowf! John: What happened? Elly: I tried to throw out one of those musical Christmas cards.
Someone stuck a small toy baby chick, that chirped, in our trash bag at home. I heard it going off in the outside trash can for several minutes. Odd feeling trying to isolate and locate an “alarm” and finding it’s coming from your trash.