Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 22, 2013

I’m sure they feel the same way about you, Rat.

Why not the bus, Rat? Oh, wait. Commoners. Or how about a taxi if your bank account can afford it?

Perhaps if you removed your crown first, Rat…

I thought Rat was going to say “I didn’t feel like sandwiches for lunch.”

Rat meet Jarvis.

And here I thought rat didn’t mix well with ANY people!

Shh! Don’t spread it around! Rat’s goin’ to town! He’s gonna take that town and do it His Way!

I feel Rat’s pain

If Rat doesn’t like subways, he can try Hardee’s or Wendy’s or…

..My experience rats feel quite comfortable in the subway…

Do what I do, call the car service. Of course they laugh at me when I do.

Just add a bit more Vermouth to the Gin it will mix better.Or Rat you could just get in the blender. Then you would mix well.Shaken not stirred.

Rat is much smarter than common subway rats.

It is commonly known that rats are commonly put to death when their appearance is made known in a subway.

..there’s a thing with those colors..

Must think he’s King Rat.

Cause the commoners form a mob with pitchforks and torches when they see him.

Where I live, the buses, light rail and such are expensive and useless unless your poor and you live in the dumps along the routes.

Example, it takes me 12 minutes to drive to work and 12 minutes to drive home. If I take the bus, I probably have to wait approximately 12 minutes for it to even show up. They sometimes come early, sometimes late and never on time.

The bus then would take me to a light rail station west, where I’d then get off and wait for the train…it then takes me up a 5 miles where I get off and wait for another bus and ride it to the nearest stop to my work which is approximately a 1.75 mile walk to my work from there.

It takes me around 2 and a half hours each way using mass transit. We have NO subways here either.

So I could ride mass transit for 5 hours a day, or use my car and drive for less than 30 minutes round trip.

Ironically the farther I go away from home the better mass transit is, I can make it 120 miles away in less time.

Oh I should mention that a monthly pass it more than I pay for gas to drive my car around…I only fill it up once and I only go to the grocery store and work, no where else.

On another note this reminds me of a time I was on vacation in San Fransico, riding one of the old time trollys we were packed in like sardines and this guy lost it and started yelling he had a knife and was going to go crazy. That got the trolly car to clear out fast…I stayed on cause I did not know the area and the guy smiled and said “Ah breathing space” and he said he really wasn’t armed at all he just did not think the driver should have let so many people get on.

Out here it’s more like a two day drive (20+ hours) to the nearest city with underground trains—and then they are actually Chicago’s El (“Elevated”), so are they really subways?

Any excuse!

LOL xxx

Last time I was on MetroRail I was offered services by a juvenile prostitute.

I’m the bombardier! I’m all right!