Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 18, 2018

what made Estela think Baldo was talking about her food?

It was love at first bite.

You’ve got to look her in the eyes so she knows you are talking to her

That’d be pretty dumb if he actually was

Go with the burger answer, Baldo. It’s MUCH safer (says the man whose eyes, after years in the military, are immediately drawn to anything that moves, especially shinny things… like necklaces and pendents)

“He said to her,

’I’d like a cheeseburger.

And I might like some French fries, as well.’

She said to him, ‘I can’t give you either.’

And he said, ’Isn’t this Burger Bell?’

She said, ‘Yes, it is, but we’re closed now.

But we open tomorrow at 10.’

He said, ’I am ex-treme-al-ly hungry,

But I guess I can wait until then!’

…

“’Cause he loves you, Cheeseburger, with all his heart.

And there ain’t nothin’ gonna tear you two-ooh apart."

From “His Cheeseburger” by Mike Nawrocki

Someone’s been watching too many McDonald’s adverts …