Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 21, 2017

Rat, maybe you can get a loan from the Bank of Vito.

I wouldn’t give that rodent credit for anything.

Funny, that’s what MY credit score is!

And he can only pay cash with 3 forms of I.D.!

If he needs money perhaps he can apply for clinical trials. I hear there’s a lot of work available for rats in that area.

His credit score is so low only Dante Alighieri can find it.

The interesting thing (to me) is that if you stop borrowing money, the rating goes down instead of up.

Children, the credit score is a marketing ploy. Shakespeare had it right.

My score is available on a credit card account site for free. It was 835 until my wife forgot to pay our state taxes. Without notifying me, the state put a county tax lien on my house. She paid, but the record of the lien stays on the credit report 7 to 10 years. Also, a card I hadn’t used in about ten years was canceled. The card company changed hands, my account number changed, the card benefits changed, and the first I knew about it was when it refused to accept a payment under the old account number. So now my credit score is 692, due to things unrelated to making regular payments. I wouldn’t care, except my insurance company uses the credit score in calculating premiums. Everybody always got their money for 45 years, but that doesn’t count for much anymore. I’m not playing their game.

You ain’t there until you’ve had an ATM laugh at you.

And yet, as President Rat, he no doubt has access to presidential planes, trains, and automobiles. Keeping these realities separate is getting to be a pain.

That seems an appropriate way to put it.

Another one could be “When Hell Freezes Over”

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Probably just as well that Rat does not get behind the steering wheel of a car! And, yes, that probably does signify a low credit score….

No Comics Censor?

A new low, that’s what it is.

Still better than “Hahahahahah!”