The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 05, 2023

There’s a solution: go back home and call in sick.

Or gone

Check the time on your watch if you’re wearing one.

Zone out completely? Do you mean like only draw one panel all day and then just put different words on it 3 times and send it in? No, I can’t say that I have. lol

You’ll find out if the the bus comes. Seemingly everyone is on strike – why not the bus drivers?

Om my goodness.

Sometimes I do that while driving, I don’t realize I passed my exit until I see the sign for the next exit. I don’t call it “zoning out” though. I call it, “Taking the scenic route”.

Can you imagine living in a country where that zone out feeling happens to your very own president of the country virtually once a week!?

At least you know you are at a bus stop…

Sounds like it is time for a vacation Brutus!

I remember an old donut commercial that ended a bit like this. The main line wa “time to make the donuts”

Have you figured out where your bus go is? If not, then what made you stop?

I’m sure being in your own car works the same way too… yeah. Days seem to mix together don’t they. :J

Yes Brutus , I have .

Must be coming. If you were going , you’d face the other way.

Brutus check you watch…oops, you forgot it. Yep, one of those days……..

Join the club, Brutus.

Been standing there all day?!

all the time (sigh)

It’s either been another bad day at the office or another bad morning at home. But at least it’s not raining. Yet.

Before I retired I worked in a facility that never closed. Someone had to be there 24 hours a day, every day. We worked a rotating shift schedule called the rattler because each day had a different start time. It was like working with jet lag. Often our last two shifts of our work-week occurred in the same day, first one starting at 6 AM, ending at 2 PM then the second one started at 10:30 PM and ended at 6:30 the following morning. On those “quick turn-around” shifts I’d come home from the first one and try to get some sleep before the second one. I can’t tell you how many times I’d wake up (mostly during the spring and fall when the days and nights are about equal) around 6:00 and wonder “Is it 6 AM or PM? Do I have the midnight shift or am I late for the day shift?” I loved my job and the schedule did have some advantages but I never realized how much of a toll it was taking until I retired. Don’t miss it at all!

So just another day for the born loser.

Not to worry Brutus – It’s Sunday. What are you even doing or better where you going?

Those days were fun. Now I have that same feeling after my nap. Which time of day is it really – morning or afternoon – the degree of lighting of the day gives me no clue.

Brutus when the bus comes just ask the driver where he’s going.

Zoned out while driving home after still another 12 hour day at work(about 4am) when I finally woke my brain up I was about 30 miles past my driveway, took me quite a while to figure out where I was(pre smart phone days)so after 13 months working 12 hours a day(and on occasion 16 hours)7 days a week that was a real wake up for me. I stopped working OT for a while. when my boss kept begging me I agreed to work 2 hours of OT a day hours a day and 8 hours OT on one of my days off as we were really shorthanded. So much so that about 6 weeks after I was medically retired in 1998 my boss came to the house and asked me to come back as a contractor 8 hours a day 3 days a week for the same pay I got working 40 hours. That plus my retirement kept me around until the youngest graduated HS. As soon as she started college in 2003 we sold the place in Michigan and moved to San Antonio as we were both sick of winter

Perk up, Brutus. Maybe you can sleep on the bus and miss your stop to get off, too!

Neither, Brutus, you are standing still.

Chip, ya gotta take a vacation! Your fatigue is showing…

Just get on the bus when it stops, Brutus, and go wherever it takes you.