Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 30, 2018

And TJ’s still batting 1.000.

but, Shannon, your uncle and aunt don’t WANT an in-house pool

They’ve caused an uncontrolled ‘leak’? I’m shocked! Just shocked!

Somehow this has gone from TJ doing this work to TJ standing off to the side and looking fabulous while someone else does the work.

Welly, Well, Well. It’s gonna be FUN watching the “TJ Fan Club” explain THIS FUBAR away! Hey Smiley? Why don’t cut your losses and give a shout out to your fellow business associate, Al Gray? After, all He KNOWS people, and he can have this little “project” knocked out in no time! While YOU do that, I’ll call SERVPRO. ;)

In the spirit of the rapidly-disappearing art of daytime drama, I propose the following titles (with apologies to Irna Phillips and other soap creators):

The Young, Restless, Impatient, and Stupid

Misguided Light

The Edge of Insanity

As the (Couple’s) World Turns (Upside Down)

The Secret Storm (of Water in the Laundry Room)

One (Less) Life to Live (in Our House)

The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Unthinking

T.J. you ever heard of a plumber.

Lookit the way Toni is holdin’ the wrench. Sure fire way to break it off, turnin’ it clockwise. She needs to turn the wrench around and go counterclockwise to loosen it. Too late now.

Can’t wait to read the flood of comments from this strip.

You know, many people appreciate a laundry room…

There’s no shutoff valve somewhere?

Ringsy did ask yestiddy if Brad and Toni were gonna help.

Inadvertent happiness!

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Shannon is going to want it left that way.

The Three Stooges Reborn….Nyk, Nyk, Nyk!

I’d like see a speeded up version of the next 10 mins. with “Yakety Sax” (of Benny Hill fame) as the soundtrack. Pass the poocorn!

Yep, a Whirlpool. Climb in.

And just like that, the Maytag repairman became a lot less lonely.

Somehow, I don’t expect this project to be finished by dinner time the way TJ promised…

Maybe dinner takes a lot longer to get there than here.

Not happy. I was hoping for a continuation of another arc next week and there is no suggestion of this.

The pipe wrench is reversed.

My neighbor would borrow my shopvac everytime the washer hose broke. I finally talked her into getting stainless steel shielded hoses and a quick shut off valve.

I know it’s just a comic strip, but “mollycoddling” children is at the top of my pet peeve list. I sure wouldn’t want to lose my laundry room for the few times a child is sleeping over. Like we all have been saying, she should “camp out in the living room”. Make it an adventure. This story line is too reaching to be plausible.

Piece of cake!

They didn’t shut the water off first?

Underneath Shannon’s arm – is that a sleeping bag??? Or at least her very own blanket? If so, then why can’t she just… Oh, never mind. Obvious solutions to simple problems are never even to be mentioned in the strip, lest the reason for rejecting them in favor of some multi-layered convoluted scheme then be made to seem like a poor choice.

I’m surprised that the very competent TOni Daytona-DeGroot didn’t think to shut off the water to the washer BEFORE starting to disconnect the hose. Sounds like something Brad, or, TJ would do.

And “wah lah”, we have Larry, Moe, and Curley.

I wish I had a nickel for every project that I thought would only take a few minutes that ended a few hours, a gallon of sweat, half a pint of blood and a six pack of beer later!

Yeah water!!!!! Kids don’t care where it comes from, they just love it. “Bwad is Mwad!!!!!”

Plumbing, the projects that have no ending! Personally I hate tackling ANY plumbing project cause the odds are (for me) are that it will go wrong!

Meanwhile back at anywhere!

I’ve done several “household” jobs. Of all the various thing, electric, framing, carpet, roofing, etc…, nothing worries me more that working with the plumbing.

“Water Under Troubled Bridges” (♬)

“A ‘Get Wrench, Quick!’ Scheme”

“Hosed!”

“Not-So-Flexible Terms”

“I Come Tumblin’ " (♬)

“Gonna Have To Bang On Dis Drum Part, All Day” (♬)

“You Can Cal Me H.A.L.” (♬)

or

“The Machines Don’t Like It, When You Do That…”

Know it’s a comic and standard fare on strips to have idiots mess with plumbing, but it’s really not that hard. As said above, “the idiots didn’t even shut off the main water valve!”.

It never occurred to any of them that they don’t really know what they’re doing and maybe it’s not a good idea to mess with this stuff?

Can’t wait until they try to disconnect the gas line to the dryer.

Uh Oh!! LIke I said hilarity ensues! Call in Al Grey. What a case of good intentions gone totally awry. Emergency plumber please.

There’s your problem, Toni, you’re turning the hose connector the wrong way.

This is getting stupid even for a comic strip. Same old thing over and over with TJ

This reminds me of that show Zombie House Flipping, where you have four house flippers who somehow manage to forget to turn off the water in EVERY house they remodel. And have ridiculous “accidents” that always happen exactly when a camera is there to record it all.

I find it a stretch of Greg’s that no one would think of the shut off.

Ha!

This is Nothing, Folks.

Just wait until They tackle the “Electrical” part of the Project and forget to shut the power off first……., ;)

Why, oh why, wouldn’t they bring SHANNON??! Now TJ will be drawn away by the princess, leaving Brad and Toni to clean up this mess…

Uh, you have to turn off the water first, Toni.

Shannon needs some discipline. She should not be permitted to speak to adults as she does. She’s downright obnoxious in her self-centered and entitled… precociousness.

Okay,that’s enough of that. Now, let’s get back to Tara the art class model, or little Fay working the glamor thing, or Tiffany mistaking Leslie’s intentions as romance rather than revenge. This is summer and the hormones do not turn to Mr. Fix-it adventures. Greg’s biological clock is ticking and soon he may not remember what this romance stuff is all about.

I hear you gotta replace those washers hoses about every five years or so (at least Shannon didn’t pull it off here)!!

Somehow they get it all done. During dinner, Shannon starts crying, “I don’t wanna sleep in that room – I wanna sleep with Aunt Toni!!”

I hope they don’t have several loads of laundry needing to be done before the next work week.

If TJ thought this would be done before dinner time do the only eat dinner once a week to save on groceries?

Have you ever witnessed a Disaster in slow motion before? Know any “TJ” in your Real Life?

I don’t know how long I will able to bear the pain…..

TJ has real affection for B & T and they for him.

tomorrow: Knute and Crystal throw a beach party.

You’ve got to turn off the water main.