Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 17, 2022

Backhand the wolf.

what’ll be tomorrow, Snoopy?

Oh Snoopy, abide and all will be well!

Some people worry that they don’t have anything to worry about; they worry that they should be worried.

Wolves get a bad rap.

Tomorrow it could be the Red Baron.

What about the cat that lives next door?

Challenge the wolf to a tennis match.

What does a backhand have to do with a tennis racket and wolves?

You stopped worrying about your backhand? Did you stop sucking at tennis?

There a two tricks to worrying:

The first is to worry only about those things over which you have control.

The second is to be so busy fixing the things you can control that you won’t have time to worry about them.

For example, I do not control the cost of gasoline however, I do have control over how much I spend on gasoline, by what I drive and how I drive it. Every time I see an SUV pass me on the highway doing what I estimate is about 85 mph, I think, “He’s happy with the price of gas.”

Zero miles per hour is the best speed: the trip you never make saves you the most gas. Brainpower, in the form of planning, can eliminate some trips. That’s what I spend my time on instead of worrying.

What’s next? Animal control?

If you don’t get any sleep, it’ll be something else you’ll have to worry about!

We all worry too much. I find that worry about something and it tends to show up.

It’s good to see Snoop keeping all his problems in perspective.

Eurovision was this week. One of the entries was a song called “Give That Wolf a Banana”. I can’t recommend listening to it…it’s pretty bad.

ah, the pre-internet days when worries were so much simpler…

I can identify with that.

Wait ‘til you have to worry where your next meal comes from, that’s when you know you’re in trouble!

When his house burned down, didn’t he have insurance? Did they cancel the policy after that?

Tomorrow, The Red Baron.

What? Me worry?

Next thing you know, he’ll worry that a tornado will take his house and crush a witch.

Probably the Cat next door …

“Cry wolf Time to worry” (A-HA)

Don’t worry about the wolves, Snoopy. It’s the queen sakes you need to worry about.

That backhand can come handy when the wolf happens to come.