Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for June 26, 2021

People keep passing off his ride. I guess it’s up to the “scientists” now.

Rufus has a tv, if you don’t mind slogging through the Chef’s ad content to get to what’s real.

“Oh! I been on th’ news lotsa times—Usual bein’ taken into po-leece custardy!”

Maybe now we have inadvertently happened upon a couple of answers? I was thinking, “Why does Joel keep a colander hanging on the wall — on the opposite side of his bed?” And knowing his malapropism, maybe it’s because he doesn’t have to change it each year, as he would a calendar. So he doesn’t note the passage of time… and maybe neither does Rufus, thus… they don’t age like the other characters!

Meanwhile I fear the longer we follow their adventures in this strip which historically has been devoted to the Wallet family… that we may be losing more characters “off screen” and when we return to the other ones, eventually…! — possibly if they speak of Walt and Skeezix and others at all… maybe it’ll be in the past tense?

Guess there’s no Uber or Lyft out in the sticks.

I’m seeing a pattern here.

“What about my ride back to town”? Another example of lies and deception from the mainstream media.