Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 08, 2021

It’s a long, hard climb.

At the top of the rope, there’s a copy of of Adulting for Dummies

Did they just grease the rope?

I couldn’t do it in gym class, and I still couldn’t do it today. I have reduced upper body strength on my right side due to a physical deformity – however such whiny excuses were not acceptable to my gym instructor, nor was it acceptable to my Master Sergeant father – so I was screwed.

This is where I first understood the real difference between an “explanation” and an “excuse”.

I don’t know. That feels like normal street. If, on the other hand, I were born into a family that handed me the best of everything and covered every mistake I made so there were few consequences for my actions, that might qualify as easy.

There is no road that leads there.

Just as easy as thoughts and prayers!

Not even on Google Maps, the most optimistic mapper, which includes streets that aren’t there or are barred to traffic.

In contemporary America the two signs would point to the lower left corner of the panel, over the cliff. Let’s Go, Brandon.

The road should be leading in the direction of the abyss. And people who are looking for Easy Street generally do not follow directions…assuming they bother to read the signs.

Unless you inherit a ton from your father, who ran brothels or something. Then your given endless slack to fail again and again and again and again. While telling yourself you’re a self-made man.

I’ve never walked in easy street.

Convenient dropoff in the other direction….

Seems the Artist is feeling a little down today.

I guess it depends on one’s personal interpretation of “easy street”

only the rope is thinner and no knots

Yeah, it’s usually a hard road to Easy Street, and when you get there the neighbors aren’t very nice.

There are many roads to easy street but most involve a combination of ambition, education, intelligence and hard work. As I told my students over the years ambition is more than wanting. Everyone wants but only some are willing to actually do what it takes to realize their ambition and there are no guarantees.

My kids are still into “Undertale”, so now I have “Hopes and Dreams” stuck in my head….

The smart people are already building stairs so they don’t have to climb up that rope

I never could climb a rope ladder… no wonder I’m not on Easy Street. (although I think the name is a missed opportunity for developments hard pressed to come up with meaningful underused street names)

(wonders about the “REAL WORLD” mentioned in this cartoon)

I just installed an elevator next to the rope.

But there’s still a bug in the controls. When anyone gets in it first goes all the way down to the sub basement and opens the door before going all the way up. Anyone that gets out there has to climb back up by themselves.

that rope is gonna be hard to climb, some will fall, fail or just crash and burn

Looks like the drain pipe for one giant toilet!!!

Definitely a political comment, but surprisingly at the other end of the spectrum from his usual tilt.

Reality can be a real bummer.

I suspect that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hire people to climb the rope for them. Oh, and also pay them minimum wage to do it too.

It’s the Cliffs of Insanity!

Is the rope made of braided boot straps?

I climbed that rope all my life and now I’m retired and on easy street. Wiley is spot on with that comic.

At the top of the rope the wall continues – the obviously cut rope end is attached to the wall with peeling cellophane tape, and there’s a note which reads"discontinued".

In an unincorporated area of Alameda County, CA near San Leandro there is an Easy St.

Easy Street is in Mountain View, CA – just off E Middlefield Rd

Hope can give you false readings. Go with a goal that will hold in better stead.

That’s knot Easy Street. That’s bull sheet!

What they cannot tell from down there is that the Rope is a bunch of Sheets used by a former Hope & Dreamer to escape from the prison his life had turned into.

Once they get to the Top, they will find themselves Trapped.

At the corner of Ho Hum Road & Easy Street is a blind alley.

Rd The door should have a sign above it saying abandon hope all you who enter here? Or this is a Rose garden we never promised you.

Wouldn’t do to have a fear of heights.

What? You might have to climb and work for success? What a concept!