Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 17, 2022

“Where are you”?? Didn’t he read the note?

In place of fun and frolicking by Teens at Milford Town Park City Lake, we get that lying Mimi who probably didn’t visit her mother. What kind of daughter writes that in a note and fails to follow through?

Ya think Pedro is confused and beside himself?

P2 Is Gil wearing high tops? Keds? Red Ball Jets? Other? What are the odds he’s wearing white tube socks too?

P4 “The kids are fine honey, they’re making sand castles on a fire ant nest, they just can’t seem to sit still!”

Mimi definitely has the mom bod thing going on, not that’s a bad thing, just sayin’…

Mom, can we stay a little longer? We’re trying to build a recreation of the building we worked and lived in the past decade. It’s almost- oh crud, I sat on the east wall again.

Gil’s house looks like stately Wayne Manor. Those windows are enormous.

I am about to go find a comic strip about sports. I don’t enjoy Mary Worth or the other soap opera comics either.

“Oh, and have you seen my new sand wedge? I put it away and now I . . . hello? Mimi?

P1: Don’t talk ti you see the whites of her eyes.

Also: Albatross! That should satisfy both the Monty Python fans and the people demanding some sort of golf reference. An eagle would have been less obscure, but you could just call them three birdies.

Story tone might change but still a giant hand in P1 and tiny hands in P2

Gil knows that Mimi’s note about “visiting her mom” was a load of crap. He’s not as dumb as he appears. And speaking of being dumb, today’s Mopped Up Thorp may or may not be dumb, you never know.

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“Where are you? Can I see you?” “That depends on whether you’re within stalking distance, Gil.”

P 4 (Emily’s voice): “….sorry…I can’t hear you …Gil? …Gil? …are you there?…oh well, I guess the call dropped..”

Hi guys, just got here from Mimi’s mom’s place. Man, that took a long time. It appeared that her pool hadn’t been cleaned in quite a long time. Sayyyyy, who’s the new chick in the black bikini?

Enough of this story line!Get back to sports and stop trying to tug at heart strings.One day Gill and Mimi are sitting at the CC sipping tea,the next they are separated?

Miss the family? Of course, since it’s been about what 8 – 10 years.

Coaches Held Hostage: Kaz, Day 54. Not to be confused with Car 54 — There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights, there’s a traffic jam in Harlem that’s backed up to Jackson Heights, there’s a scout troop short a child, Khruschev’s due at Idlewild … Car 54, where are you?

kids look too old to be making sand castles

So Gil couldn’t just call Keri?

Why is Mimi wearing a one piece suit if she wants to look like she’s 25?