Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 18, 2022

I wonder if it is less trouble going for a spaceship ride — say with Jeff Bezos?

Just not pay your phone-bill. Then your phone will just fly away. And you will be stuck with a paperweight.

If you fold it in half and then like this and this and this.

Then hold it here like this and throw with a smooth gentle motion.

Just throw it as high in the air as you can. See, it’s flying!

I worked for many years in jobs that required steel-toed safety shoes. Got used to wearing them routinely. The first time I took a flight, it was hard to say whether I or the “inspector” was more surprised. All the instructions said was “Empty your pockets.”

HA! My very favorite Wizard joke in Shoe was a Sunday strip, decades ago. Cosmo has his computer in for repairs. Wiz says (paraphrased! It’s been too long!) “Well first we have to run an anti-virus, then check to see if the rootkit is corrupted, defragment the disk, reboot the hard drive, back up the data and clone the motherboard…”

Cosmo looks at him and says “And how is this better than just changing the ribbon?”

There are times when I’ve gotten close to putting my phone in airplane mode, until I remembered that I’d just have to walk all that way and pick it up off the floor.

Ii miss the days when you could slam the receiver down…customer service yesterday…

I put my phone in airplane mode, and it started calling me Shirley.

I don’t know if I want Shoe to remove his shoes.