One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for September 29, 2023

Be careful what you wish for.

Being a princess means being married off to the person your family wants to forge an alliance with, even if he’s in his sixties or looks like Frankenstein.

Mama take this badge off of me

I can’t use it anymore

It’s getting dark, too dark to see

I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

⏩ ⏩ ⏩ [ZIP!]

How’s that for timing? ;-D

I gotta say that if I had spoken like that to my Mother when I was a child, that would be my Dad at the door, and instead it would be KABLAM or whatever sound a door makes when knocked off it’s hinges.