The Grizzwells by Bill Schorr for May 19, 2023

She doesn’t work the ground, she doesn’t get a crop.

The coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, took me a beat to get it…sigh, looks like it’s going to be one of those days.

I remember one time in Junior High, my algebra homework had really gone well. It was usually really difficult — algebra problems really were problems — but this time I understood it and breezed through. Then came the next morning in class when we all, as per usual, traded papers and checked them. The kid who got mine was amazed. He’d never seen anyone get all of them wrong. They were worth five points per problem, but there were just over 20 problems. I got a negative score on my homework. The teacher gifted me enough points that it registered as a D, so it was clear I’d done the assignment.

as a married man, i know that it’s possible to get it wrong 100% of the time…

Hmm. Girls usually would score better than “absolute zero,” Fauna….

I was horrible with history in high school. I had to go an extra half a year to graduate. But that just delayed me joining the Marines and going to Nam in ‘68.