Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 06, 2014

Only 18 more pairs to go!

Uh… Alice, the tissue is unnecessary in the shoe after you’ve purchased the shoes.

I thought you take it out as your foot grew? I had such pain.

Mom’s got some patience.

Maybe she’d prefer to go bare-foot.

Remember when you had three choices – black, white, or go without? Honestly, life was so much easier then.

Funny weird or funny ha ha?

This takes me back to the neato foot-X-ray machines they had when I was Alice’s age or thereabouts. Old timers, remember putting your feet inside the bottom of the machine and seeing your foot bones? (Mine were bathed in a green light.) Fun, and I haven’t died yet from bone irradiation from that era. For photos, put X-ray machines in shoe stores into “Google images.” (I would put the url, but it’s so long that people tend to get huffy.)

Oh, neat! I just clicked on “You may also like: Richard’s Poor Almanac” over to the right and got a groovy comic!

I think we had brown before there was a choice. Then came black and then there were saddle shoes. About the early 1950s the boys had white bucks and used a ‘bunny’ bag of powder to cover the scuffs. Kept it in the hip pocket of their jeans- we liked to give it a slap. Then they had a white butt as well as bucks. I don’t remember when loafers became popular- I wore them in HS (1950-54).

The first panel would make neat wallpaper.

Did I detect just a note of sarcasm in Madeline’s voice (panel 2)?

Not too surprised to hear about that. . . .