Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 17, 2021

Goat is in the penalty box and Rat is on a power play.

For Rat’s time to be wasted, it has to be worth something in the first place.

Go ahead and climb right out, Goat.

On my wedding day I arrived late, but my (ex) wife didn’t put me in the “Penalty Box”. On the contrary. But she reminded me of it until we separated.

Looks life Goat is the ultimate winner. Don’t need to deal with Rat for at least another 20 minutes.

No penalty kicks for Rat?

What to do when a lot of Rat’s tardy acquaintances are put into that box? Like the Jaws boat, he’s gonna need a bigger box, but where to obtain such a box?

What was Goat late for anyways?

If this becomes a reality, I’m in trouble.

Justice leaves everyone equally annoyed, just like compromise.

Punctuality is common courtesy but I also get disappointed when everyone else is not in my hurry!

I would’ve pegged Goat as the perpetually early type.

I like sitting in boxes!

Rat if we do this box thing we will have " NO " Doctors !

goat eat box

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

it’ll be invigorating if you be the judge.LOL..not so if you be the accused.

Goat is an intellectual. They tend to live in other time spheres.

Rat delivers, wait for wait!

Best to tell the perpetually late to be a half hour or so before the actual time!

I wonder if Rat would be interested in going in with me on a little project I’ve been working on. At the “10 items or less” checkout, train the cashier to ring up ten items and then stop and ask for the total; send everything else back or tell the customer to pay and then get back in line for the next ten.

20 minutes later, you’d have to wake me from my penalty box nap, and I don’t wake friendly. Bring hockey stick.

You can’t be “perpetually late”! Lateness is not a never-changing state. Death is a never-changing state. When you’re dead, you’re dead forever. Then, you can be “perpetually dead”… unless you’re Jesus… :D

I used to always be late until we found out our friends started saying the event started half an hour before it actually did, just so we would be there on time. Now that I’m single, I’m usually 15-20 minutes early places. Went in for an MRI on day and made it out of there before my scheduled appointment was to start.

Time and tide wait for no man. Nor do I. Back in the 1960s’, my mother had a friend who was late for everything.One holiday, my mother told her if she was late to our house, she was going to drive over and drop spoonfuls of potato salad on her front yard. The friend showed up with her hair in curlers and in her housecoat but she was on time.

I’m not late. Did you start without me? Well just call the office and reschedule, I’ll be early for my next meeting. Okay, at least we’ll finish on time. I love being the boss.

Justice, Rat’s way.

I’ve always been a touch early to any event, and twice in my life I’ve arrived as the host’s were still dressing. Don’t tell me that whatever, will be at ‘around two’ and not expect me at two.

I like Rat’s thinking.

When you arrive early for events, you can get a good parking place.

I am with.Rat on this one. People who are constantly late are rude, inconsiderate and self centered.

I like that idea. I once worked in a Physical Therapy clinic where we had chronically late patients who would mess up the schedule. My boss always made them wait while we treated the next person on the schedule who was on time. He said “if you’re late—you wait”!

They sell those on Amazon? I’ll need a gross…

I know where I’ll be living from now on…

I’m in Facebook penalty box

You always wait at the doctor’s or dentist’s office. That’s why they call you patients. ;-)

Rats. I is 8 hours late to this comment board.

Actually, I like this idea. There is very seldom a good reason to be late.

Rats hold one heck of a grudge.

Strange. I find some logic to this.

I wish that was a real thing…

Wouldn’t work with cats.

Penalty box? What is this, hockey? If it is, don’t get cross-checked.

my first wife from Thailand was always an hour late for everything so I just started telling her the incorrect time of an hour more than she needed to come.

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Two different women said that to Ryan O’Neal in two different movies. His reactions were somewhat different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gcl2JDxFrQ

“You do that, you go to the box. Twenty minutes, by yourself, and you feel shame. And then you get free.”

- Denis Lemieux

Anybody who’s ever been plagued by a “perpetually late”friend or relative will adore this strip.

The only thing worse than a lack of punctuality is a false apology for it

I agree with rat on this one.

Should have called if you were going to be late. We do have cell phones now.

That’s one big sized Rat!

I’ve never seen a rat carry a goat!

Actually, not a bad idea.

Justice, huh. Ok, then Goayt gets to put you in a penalty box for the next twenty years for wasting twenty years of his life.

Since when can a rat manhandle a goat? Ahh, I forgot, it’s a comic.

Sorry I’m late. I got here as soon as I wanted to.

People who are perpetually late, are selfish, and they don’t value anyone else’s time. I can’t count the number of meetings I attended in which I had to sit and wait for the leader to recap what was said before the latecomer(s) arrived. Had I been the leader, I would have told them to ask people who were on time, what they missed.

Hell, have’t no fury like that of a woman’s memory. After 40 years I should know.

Karma for the perpetually late. If only.

More Rat snarkiness. What got Pastis’s crackles up lately?

I like it.

Rough justice, to be sure! One can see easily why Rat like it that way. Any number of fictional “heroes,” especially in movies and TV, fit that mode, too….

My Drill Sergeant always said “Sorry is a personal statement, not an excuse for your actions”

What if Goat was there to stop Rat from choking? Or to put out a house fire?

I agree with the fact that sorry is a useless word…