Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 08, 2024

More bad news ?

Does he have the “Good Hands” people?

“And wake me up to the fact that my new pet is scratching up my furniture.”

Insurance agent? Maybe it’s Mr. Imeswine in disguise.

How refreshing it is to see someone pray in a comic strip. Each day millions do, but that is so rarely shown.

Good old Walt, he knows what to do.

Walt is the very definition of an old timer. My parents had a problem, and I said “Don’t you have homeowner’s insurance?” My mother said “We can’t make a claim. Our rates will go up!” So what’s the point of having it?I had a minor kitchen fire. My wife had put frozen waffles in the toaster, and left the room. The waffle got stuck, and caught fire, and singed the cabinets above the toaster. Luckily, the dog alerted my wife and she used the fire extinguisher just as the curtains would have caught. The whole house was filled with smoke. She called me, and I stopped by in the patrol car, and radioed for the Fire Dept. They ventilated the house, and I called my insurance agent. I was thinking a few hundred bucks to sand and stain the cupboards. He comes in and says “We can’t match these cabinets. We’ll have to redo your whole kitchen.” They graded everything, gave us a dollar value, and we remodeled our kitchen. State Farm dropped us 2 years later, but our rates never went up. I even saved some money when I switched! A few years ago, we had a wind storm. I lost three shingles, abouts a 3×6 spot. I was just going to climb up and put new ones on. but my neighbor said try my insurance. I called, and one day I cam home and they guy is on my roof. He says “You’ve got hail damage up here too.” I told him the roof was 30 years old. He said it didn’t matter. They came up with a quote, and gave me a check for half, minus my deductible. He said they would reimburse the rest up to the full quote after the job was done. I got it done for less than the check they gave me. More to the point of the comic, I had a tree fall and take out my fence, swing, some chairs (and my neighbor’s car!) They paid me $2400 and paid to have the tree removed. Never once did I ask God for help. But I DID thank him for my blessings!

Yet again, GA is featured in today’ “Comcics Curmudgeon”:

“It appears that God has answered Walt’s prayers, and is about to save him from financial ruin by [squints] ensuring that his up-to-date homeowners insurance pays for the damages to his house, in accordance with the provisions of his policy documents. You might question how God was involved in that transaction. Well, He is Eternal and does not experience time as we do, so how do you suppose Walt came to buy that policy in the first place, huh? Makes you think.”

The insurance agent will look like Jack Benny…..

If there was no damage to the house or fence , I doubt insurance will pay a dime.

Fast answer to that prayer!

After Phyllis passed, Walt spent his considerable savings on strippers and booze leaving him without enough money to overpay for a tree removal. A fairly common but nevertheles sad story.

Ask and you will receive.

We never did get a bid from S. A. W. aka Frank Nelson. I guess we assume that it was higher than 7k.

Walt should know by know that it doesn’t work that way. He may as well pray to Santa Claus.

Good News! You have outlived your burial policy maturation age. What are you going to do with that $10k?

Answered prayer, hopefully!

I’ve had this same moment myself: I reach the point of asking for divine intervention, and my insurance makes it all better.******divine sparklies*********