Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 12, 2019

Over at the corner of Ballard St. & Mullberry St. Tipy Twit wonders why nothing ever happens.

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It’s amazing how engrossed people get while texting.

Just learned a new ‘word’ last week “fomo” (fear of missing out).

Yes! Crazy nakedness returns to Ballard Street for the final days! Albert figures he won’t have time to spend his money before the end, and the Sheriff can only put him in jail for 18 days, so what the heck. Meanwhile Ralph has still not learned that his pen and pencil go in the INSIDE jacket pocket; the outside pocket is for a decorative handkerchief.

Wheel of Fortune (X)

I’m not sure HOW much money he’d have to be throwing around for me to regret not seeing that sight go past me!

SHERIFF!

Sheesh, Albert is off his meds again! Or maybe he thought : One Last Time…. sigh

A streak of good luck.

Somethings are better left unseen.

As life’s raw encounters pass you by….

That does it, I’m moving to Ballard Street.

Jerry Van A heads off into the sunset with the rewards of a long career.

But people’s obsession with their phones have provided us with so many great videos: impacts with ponds, holes, curbs, poles, etc.

He was barely able to control his jubilation.

AwlRite…!!! ALburT izzin teh HooseGow fur a liTTLe Koolin Off… (not ta Imply Heez HOT, contrARy ta wut Rose Sed aBowt Albert At teh LAST Eppi Sode of Hiz Air-in Owt). Ya Nose, Sumthinks Nevre Change round Hear… butt His Fine Will cover a Round Of Nanner Daks at the TIKI… c’mon Buy..!! o.0

Wow…..just wow

“Mm, hmm, says here that the pressures of modern living are getting to some people. Hmph, well, I haven’t seen it…”

Naked guys throwing money away is not unusual on Ballard street, now had that been Alice….

Funny how retirement affects some people.

Would have been even better with a hot naked lady

If he is throwing away his life savings, then we have seen two examples of his short comings.

Does it count if it’s Canadian dollars?

“Reginald misses out on another neighborhood event due to his cheap scheduling app.”

Back when I worked retail I kept a few uncapped Bic pens in the pocket protector of my shirt and at the cash register. Why, you ask, keep UN-capped pens? Well, often customers will absent mindedly (but sometimes on purpose) return a regular retractable ballpoint pen to THEIR pocket instead of to you. I’ve never seen that happen with an uncapped Bic.

Don’t look, Ethel!

…

Too late

Bernie Sanders …….FREE, FREE,FREE

I do not get the joke part.

Hey, hikers! You should walk over two blocks and get a load of what’s going on on Penny Lane.

I’ve seen things, I wish I had missed.

If I were Ralph, I would have ralphed had I seen what just passed him by. But the money might have eased the discomfort, just a little.