Close to Home by John McPherson for August 18, 2024

Can’t she just use an Acme Inflatable Porta-Potty Model 2100, like most people?

I need one of those.

…because attracting MORE attention is just what you want in that situation.

if you have one, urine luck!

A blow for women everywhere

Which was an awful surprise for Santa, that one year…

My kids were never that shy.

Just get on a part of the road that bends to the left (in North America), pull over and then stand by the front passenger-side tire. The bend in the road will make the car a great screen for you!

[Monty Python’s Knights who say Ni] You will bring us a shrubbery! :-)

Bleeb stows away.

She got the shuberry.

If that was pre-used would you put your mouth on it?

She’s going to need a bigger shrub!

I would prefer an inflatable wall. That way I would be less likely to find myself sharing it with a stray dog.

In the 50’s and 60’s with less populated areas, fewer interstates, fewer “quick stops” and/or service stations, this was a real problem when my family traveled. Many a time we had to stop along the road and go behind a bush. Easier for the guys than the gals. Nowadays, there are rest stops and fast food places, etc., etc., at every interstate exit practically. “The good old days!”

Bleeb hard to see today. Like finding Waldo!

Ni.

… and then the wind blows it away, and you become an idiot on YouTube forever.

(John and Bleeb are back… everybody act normal!!)

Years ago, my husband worked for ODOT and their crew was working on the highway, one of the crew needed to relieve himself so the driver was to hold the vehicle still, another person guard behind him while the open door was to remain cover. When the time came everything went according to plan except the driver took off, thinking it funny.The funny part was the guy’s wife was driving by just at the moment he was exposed! This story was shared at his retirement roast.Nowadays they’d all be in trouble and written up, but things were different back then.

By the time she finishes blowing it up, she will have blown it out her ash.

Ewww

No Bleep! 2024. Unless he’s that off white spot under the left front tire of the passing motorist! Hope not.

I hope it doesn’t get a leak.

Our five year old grandson was on a road trip with us. We were stuck in completely stopped traffic on an Interstate, a wreck up ahead. He announced he had to pee, we took him down to the ditch. To hear him tell it this was the highlight of his life, peeing in the side of a road.

Step away from the wack job….eww

Just hide behind the car

I have to get one for my bicycle!

A bush in the hand is worth going #2.

4 door car. Open both passenger side doors and you don’t need a shrub.

I see another problem, no leaves.

Pull over next to the grass, open both passenger side doors…You’re welcome.

Inflatable shrub: “I gotta take a leak.” PSSSSHHHHHHH.

aw c’mon! go ahead an’ moon the traffic! (brings back memories many years ago on a very cold winter morning when we passed a guy who had pulled over and was standing by the side of the road with a cloud of steam emanating in front of him… lol!!)

Unless it has clips to attach it to the grass, the slightest breeze will blow it away, leaving her exposed.

Strips like this convince me that if he were not a cartoonist, John McPherson would like to have been an inventor. I have clippings from when his strip was in our newspaper, and a lot of them involve ideas for clever products.

Wish I’d had one of those for myself when I was driving back and forth between Denver and Phoenix.

Shouldn’t it be more properly referred to as a shubbery?

Disgusting, but ingenious. Someone could make a million.

Should be a peony.

Bleebs hiding behind the passengers seat and door today.

Hmm not a bad idea

Good to see you again, Bleeb!