Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 30, 2021

So every team in the school has a car wash on the same day?!?

And after Tevin does a nice favor for Mom, her response is “get going on Dad’s car?” And get to the drugstore…chop chop! She treats him like a person who is expected to do her bidding without any financial consideration or time to do what he wants to do.

What we’ve learned by P3 of the new story arc – Tevin is a new player in town, and not necessarily an athlete, though he sure goes out of his way to admire the girls sports teams!

“Take out the papers and the trash. Or you don’t get no spending cash. If you don’t mop that kitchen floor. You aint gonna rock and roll no more.”

Obviously, it’s School Spirit Day at Milford High and all the clubs, teams and organizations are doing fundraisers. Gil and Kaz are at the football team’s Sloppy Joe Bake-Off and Mimi and Pedro are involved in s rather spirited, uh, “discussion.” Heather Burns covers in the breaking edition of the Milford Star. Meanwhile, New Thayer and Oakwood have been holding two-a-days for over a month.

In all reality , and stop at Bud’s Liquors and get me a pack of Luckies and a bottle of Old Grandad , here’s a note to give to Bud. Ok Ma !

P1, Sorry, Tevin but Vic already beat you to the girl’s volleyball team. Good luck with the gymnasts.

P2, Long as it’s not SwiftyMart, Mom.

P3, This reminds me of the parking lot scene from “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” when Brad is pulling into the lot in The Cruising Vessel.

Tevin Claxton appears to be a cursed neatnik, ala Felix Unger. Nahhh. The kid has raging hormones, he’s a pantie chaser. I know Mimi has coached volleyball. Who coaches gymnastics? Hopefully someone with a flexible schedule.

Well, we now meet the newest all-state athlete, however, his mom seems normal and he has a dad so Rubin is throwin a curve ball into the mix.

Tevin must be a pretty old freshman to be driving already. I don’t recall his name in any of the previous 3 years sports.

R.I.P. Ed Asner. Your retirement from the Library Board was short lived, as was your tour of the summer pie eating contests.

Are the fingers on his left hand chopped off? Not only p3, but the bizarre hand meshing in p1 raises the question.

This wouldn’t be a bikini car wash, would it?

I like Tevin. Polite, helpful, no facial hair, drives with his hands in the 10 and 2 positions… I see bullies in his future.

I’m such a good poster, but this one leaves me without comment

Damn, Tevin, wash the cars yourself!

Cheerleaders and “Drill” Team is next; hope he has enough cars to keep up with teams!

Next, snarkers discover if Tevin is an athlete or scholar. If a footballer, the backfield is set with Rut-roh and Blow top mad. Could he be a receiving threat, the likes we haven’t seen since the speedy Max Ortiz? Or a secondary thumper like Terry “The Smiling Irishman” Gallagher? Will he soak up and absorb Gil’s simplistic team first philosophy like a fresh loofah? In Milford, lie is just one damn thing after another.

A gymnastics car wash! This should be interesting. The people doing the washing will be using his car like a pommel horse as they clean it. Dismounting from the roof, sticking the landing!

And speaking of sticking, you should be sticking around and reading today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Wash the cars himself, there won’t be any bikini car washes then

“Was that a left or a right? Dude named True, with his shoulder all bandaged up drinking beer outside the QickE Mart, said driving through Central City is the way to Hawaii. He was sure of it!”