Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 09, 2021

Reach for the box of cookies on the kitchen counter!

♪♫Fly me to the moon♪♫

Pig’s got a point: set your goals high and face a lifetime of disappointment…

Pig, another saying is, Your reach should always exceed your grasp. So if you reach for the Moon, you may grasp those treats on the top shelf!

Can’t get a step stool, Pig, in order to reach pantry’s top shelf?

That’s why there are food delivery services.

Spouse, who like me is shrinking, but who started a lot shorter cannot now reach anything on the top shelf. I got her one of those grabby things. Guess who uses it. Yup. It’s a lot more convenient for her to ask me to get it down.

I use it to get into the 12 inch deep cupboard that’s over the fridge. Works a charm, particularly since when (not if) I drop the jar of whatever, it only falls an inch or two onto the fridge.

Maybe a long lost champagne cork is up there.

I reached for the moon and fell over.

Reach for the canned beans, Pig.

I’d have thought Pig’s goal was to reach for his toes and touch them.

Pig, it doesn’t matter if you can’t reach the top shelf; there won’t be anything there BECAUSE you can’t reach it.

Strive for the impossible and accomplish the improbable.

Just reach for the bottle of well hazed IPA beer!

Then all your problems will drift away!

“Have high apple pie in the sky hopes” !

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. – Casey Kasem

You and me both Pig ::sigh::

I don’t know about you, Pig, but I only put things I hardly ever use up there. All the important items (food) are at eye level.

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,. Or what’s a heaven for?” Browning.

That said I tend to think expecting too much is a road to disappointment and disillusionment. Reaching for the unreachable might be fine as an exercise in self-improvement. I just don’t tend to expect it to happen. Or at least not in this life.

I used to be able to reach the top shelf… then old-age shrinkage set it. But I can now reach my goal with a little step stool!

He’s gonna need a stepping stool.

Reach for the top of your head and scratch it in bewilderment. That’s obtainable.

“Dreams come a size too big so we can grow in them.” Josie Bissett

I reached for the moon, but she pulled her pants up.

Keep your feet in the ground and keeping reaching for the top shelf!

Shoot for the moon. Reach for the stars.

Goals should be a slight stretch from what you think you can do. I never ‘reached for the moon’, but I did retire comfortably at 52.

LOL! Poor PIG….he just will never get it!

My wife can’t reach the top shelf of the pantry. That’s why she’s got me.

Reminds me when a boss told me I had unlimited potential and I said – so no matter what I do I could have done it better?

I can’t, either.

Umm, 12 astronauts DID manage the trick, and a whole bunch more will likely get there before the decade is out.

Don’t reach for anything you don’t need. You’ll be fine.

Aim far, make it matter. But measure how you far you’ve come, not how far you have to go.

Set realistic goals?

Get one of those long “grabby” things on a pole. That should reach it !

You go reach for the moon. I’ll just reach for your picanic baskets.

I heard a comedian say the sky’s the limit, and his son asked “why do people say that when there are footprints on the moon?”

Where I live, if you reach for the skies, they’ll steal your wallet and your cell phone!

Note to self: tell Pig to reach for the bucket of ice cream in the freezer. He can reach that.

Who says ‘Pearls’ is a depressing strip?

I’ve always felt my greatest attribute was that I can reach high shelves and lift heavy objects. Of course, I’m older now so perhaps “semi-heavy” objects is more accurate.

I have a similar saying but mine is more practical (and easily fulfillable): “Reach for the chocolate cake donut”

Me either.

You are a pig you should be groveling in the mud where you belong.

Try a lasso. It worked for Jimmy Stewart, in “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

it’s not the achievement, it’s the striving that counts

I’m 5 feet tall (or more accurately, five feet short). I can barely reach the outer edges of my second pantry shelf, let alone the back of it or any part of the third shelf. And why do they put microwaves over stoves? I can’t even reach the microwave buttons, let alone pull out a hot bowl of soup.

Or just reach for the moonshine.

REACH! Pardner…

Short people know this dilemma

Pig is right. Goals like that only cause loss of self esteem.

More troubling to me is that I can no longer reach my feet.

Go ask Po for the secret to getting to the top shelf of the pantry.

4’5" person with dwarfism here. I had to flag down the barista at Starbucks this afternoon because they put my mobile order on the edge of their side of the counter and I couldn’t reach it.

Ironically, Pig the Dim is acutely perceptive today!

Beware, when your cliché explodes in your face, Goat….

Alice Kramden was slated to be the first person to reach the moon, but Ralph never worked up the gumption to launch her.

That’s why I have step stools

Pig actually has a point here

All I got from reaching for the moon was a pulled muscle.