Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 29, 2014

I reminded my niece, “MAY I have…” and she exploded: “It’s CAN I! CAN I! Aunt Susan says can I!”Aunt Susan is not perhaps the go-to person on these things. And don’t ask her to help with your math homework.

A wad of cotton candy bigger than she is – that would be a scary snack to Mom!

Give me an R-38 cotton candy.

Poor Tim! The smoke of the battlefield grows thick around him. This adds a new dimension to his name, Fretwork.

You can’t tie an insulation man down!

Hmm. I wonder if there’s ever been a case where a small child got into an attic, thought it was filled with cotton candy, and tried to swallow the insulation. Something else to be careful of when baby-proofing a house, I suppose. I remember that I could climb the ladder into my grandmother’s attic by the time I was 4 or 5. Luckily it was just filled with old toys and other treasures, and no insulation.

Not a real insulation flashback unless he become insanely itchy

All that sugar into Alice. That certainly is a scary snack,

Nice to see Timmy lending a non-banjo picking hand at Blisshaven. With cotton candy balls that big, there should be a line of kids around the block. Running around the block.

So, the banjo man used to lay that pink-brand insulation in the old days, ehh? Well, he’s making up for it now by giving a doubleplusbig serving of spun sugar to poor little Alice, who will be so jacked that she won’t come down from the ceiling until the weekend! Guilt trip or PTInsulationSD, or just plain frozen by panic, Timmy Fretwork strikes a sympathetic chord….

1. A real danger is getting that stuff stuck in his hair.

2. belgarathmth, a real danger of a kid getting into an attic, one with a fiberboard floor, is that he may fall through the floor. One of my younger daughter’s sisters-in-law (when grown) fell through the attic floor onto the living-room rug. She recovered, but it took awhile.

“Never eat anything bigger than your head.” -B. Kliban