Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 31, 2022

Very cute and a good chuckle.

Schulz turned a building into a multi-faceted character. Sort of.

Naughty School!! Looking at awnings!!

He has an edifice complex?

No, it’s just getting along with his own kind, like apples and apple cake, like oranges and orange juice, like men and women, like Charlie Brown and the Little Red Headed girl. Some mesh and others, …..well, you get the idea.

A lot of these older schools had their own boilers to heat the school. Does the school do a wolf whistle at the “cute little dress shop with the beautiful awnings”, with the steam from those boilers? The school might be getting hot under the eaves.

What about the glory days of five and dime store rival chains like Woolworth’s, Kresge’s, Murphy’s, Kress, Newberry’s, Grant’s, and TG&Y (This was pre big box and Dollar Tree/Dollar General/Family Dollar)?

Flirting with the dress shop? Who knew?

My backyard faces an elementary school. Weather permitting, after school hours and on the weekend, the neighborhood kids use the playground and the field, so I don’t imagine a school would get too lonely.

I didn’t know schools could hit on other buildings.

Yes! Return of the second-best Peanuts character: School Building!

And enormous…bay windows

“Hey buddy, my signage is up here!”

Ahh the school has been checking out the shop’s porch and patios I see

It’s sad. The shop is all dressed up and can’t go no place.

Hey, this is a family strip.

They way they billow in a soft breeze. Very fetching.

I heard she paid to get bigger awnings.

she’s a brick house

Uhm… Are you sure it’s just the awnings you’re looking at?

I always think that awnings look like eyelashes.

so if the school and the dress shop had a kid, would it be a school uniform shop?

The school building is the one adult in the strip who has a speaking role.

?/10 don’t know

Does the slight personification of buildings represent the vast imagination of a child?

I’m sure she does…..

Way to get yourself out there, dude.

Interesting. None of my schools were ever in an retail environment — always surrounded by homes.