Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 22, 2013

It was indeed something you said, Alice. You insulted your father.

Hey she only gave her opinion. What is this the A&E network?

Sensitive, frustrated, cut to the quick, Peter could not face his daughter’s disappointment any longer. Did he go out and chug a bottle of bourbon?

Maybe he’s got a gin blossom. Who knows what goes on behind the Otterloop’s closed door.

If the people who designed those packages designed our prisons, who world would be a safer place.

He went to cut off his nose to spite his face.

And your head looks ten years older than the rest of your body. Daddy? Put down the gun daddy!

Hi! My seven-year -old “Alice” wants to make a comment:daddy your self! Your a kid! Alice!

(Not quite ready for prime time.)

Amazon now offers an option on a lot of their products of “frustration-free” packaging. And I wonder: who thought people would ever want FRUSTRATING packaging in the first place???

There are actually thousands of emergency room visits every year that are attributable to attempts to open packaging. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrap_rage

(That article also suggests that one can open the hard formed plastic with a can opener. That had never occurred to me before; definitely going to try it!)

Those shoes! Somebody shrunk Dorothy! Did the Otterloops do something bad?

Hahaha!Great strip!