Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 08, 2020

But, then again, Ted is rather simple.

Note: It’s not plugged in.

Chair will be removed tomorrow.

Come on, Ted; get vigilant – there’s still room in that box of yours!

Simple gadgets for simple people.

Hopefully it will occur to Ted that someone is needed to push the button.

And that children was the birth of technology.

Ted was told he had to make a simple switch…

but he couldn’t do it

So … someone else made a simple switch…

and they discovered that it could replace Ted.

Mr. Sherman says it isn’t plugged in…

well, maybe…. but then again… neither was Ted.

Ted wonders if he has a mouse trap in his box……

For heaven’s sake don’t touch it!

Ted will wake up night after night and wonder.. was his worth.. really that small?

Ted probably should have seen it coming when Foster got replaced by a Widget, Dandridge by a Thingamabob, and Winkler by a Whatsit…

He’d feel worse if he knew the knob was just for show.