Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 21, 2010

Just take his lunch over to the school Rover.

Someone predicted this would happen two or three days ago.

Maybe the other kids will share their food with Boog.

Shame on you forgetful.

Hoogy is obviously a great housekeeper. The kitchen is sparking clean. The least Rover could do is put away the now clean and dry breakfast dishes.

I don’t think I’d touch that lunch. It looks radioactive.

Aren’t they out in the woods somewhere? Not so easy to go to the school with forgotten lunch, books, homeword assignmnets, etc. Why did it take so longto notice it? I don’t think we cn assume Hoogy does all the housekeeping.

there may be a mystery here.

I believe that little TV in the corner behind Rover is a Microwave and not a TV

But I too am curious as to why the dish drainer is on the stove instead of next to the sink??!

Better eat the evidence.

The lunch looks radioactive? That’s what you get when the only house you can afford is downstream from the nuclear sludge factory.

Better not take the lunch to him now…

That spoiled mayo on the sandwich might make the kid sick…

What’s the problem? It’s noon. Take the freekin lunch and drive it over to the school. It didn’t get any more spoiled sitting on the counter than it would have in the kid’s backpack.

Something else I don’t get. His kid’s going hungry and his first thought is that his wife will give him hell if she finds out? What kind of parent is this?

And that fluorescent purple outfit, yipe…

I used to have an old stove twice the width of the modern ones. There was plenty of space for a dish drainer to the right of the burners. There may also be a counter directly beside the stove. As to placement-everyone has their own little ideas.