Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 28, 2021

Rat should get a job where he works the weekends and gets Monday off.

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, the train.

How did Garfield squeeze himself into a Rat costume?

Rat sees a sign, but chose to ignore it.

It said STOP and got nailed by a taxi.

Hope won’t buy beer.

He and Garfield have the same outlook!

I remember one Monday when I told my mother I wished it was Friday and she said “Quit wishing your life away” so I said, “OK…I wish it was last Friday”

Mondays are my favorite day! I get so much accomplished.

Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day!

Rat could never be a lawyer because he can’t pass the bar, any bar.

Every once in a while I hear someone say, in all seriousness, that while things were going downhill for them before, they managed to turn their life around three hundred and sixty degrees.

If he feels like he’s going to turn right into an oncoming bus,

… maybe he should turn left.

Perhaps you’ll find comfort in knowing the bus driver loathes mondays even more than you do, Rat.

There is no hope like no hope.

So I suppose there’s no Crosby on Mondays??

From the left there’s a speeding cement truck. While I’m stuck in the tracks of a bullet train.

Well Rat that sounds like something Pig would say …

The silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload.

For those first few hours driving in Australia or England, turning a corner is when you are most likely to pick the wrong side of the road, and meet that oncoming bus!

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train. Just ask the Coyote.

Is Rat related to Garfield?

Being retired who cares what day it is, as long as it’s not my last day.

one can hope. :D

The only slim hope on a Monday is that somehow it goes by quickly

Rat: Turns a corner

Bus: Hey

Oh calm down. Have a snack and a walk.

Rat doesn’t plan on living life to the fullest. He’s a rat. What’s he got? Like five years?

PBS Trivia: What is Goat’s real name?

I used to work four 10-hour shifts with Wednesdays off. It was like having two Mondays a week, but still only one Friday.

I owned three businesses, ( One at a time) and my days off were "Sunday, MONDAY! I loved that the stores weren’t crowded, and Sundays visited family etc. I closed the business, retired during the pandemic in 2020 and don’t have to worry about being off on Mondays! Love it!

“Just another manic Monday…”

Rat is channeling his inner Garfield, I see…

I love Mondays now! That’s when all the noisy people go back to work!

" Come day go day, I wish in my heart it was Sunday

Drinkin’ buttermilk through the week and whiskey on a Sunday "

Probably more accurate

This needs to be on a (de-)motivational poster…

Rat and Garfield seem to have something in common.

There’s no hope in life…..

I had one of those.

Garfield would concur

My crews were all at their happiest on Mondays … they all had kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b83I55GDEyo

That soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way.

My mondays don’t turn into an oncoming bus, they camp at the bus depot overnight.

Don’t worry… nothing’s going to be alright.

I always have hope on Mondays… I hope I can get through the day, without going totally insane.

Monday, Monday! …The Mommas & the Papas had it right! And so does Rat….

https://tinyurl.com/7d2qckh

I need this on a tee shirt

I knew it was Monday when I hurt myself fixing Malt-O-Meal for breakfast.

Rat’s becoming more and more like Garfield.

I turned a corner, walked half a block and was home.