Vacuuming Day 4
We have gotten to the point where we are barely trying to snark the daily strip. I had Jeremy mention a dust cloud over the Patterson house, but that was about as much as I could do with this one.
As far as personal stories go, I have run out of amusing vacuuming stories. So, let's talk about something else.
In the previous day’s installment, Howard and Becky had broken into the Forsythe home to replace Gerald’s medicine with saline solution in order to return him to normal. The flaw in this plan is of course that unless Howard and Becky are willing to do this over and over again, every time the prescription is renewed, then it would not solve the problem. The second part of the solution was to clue in Dr. Forsythe and have him do it. That avoided having to do repeat break-ins. Then in an astonishing turn of events, qnjones posted her Becky talking to Dr. Schlanger who ordered a hit on Dr. Ted McCauley (the steroid prescriber) by the Israeli mob in order to solve the problem and this did not seem to disturb Becky very much.
We have already established that Gordon and Tracey Mayes, mainly Tracey, run the mob action in the town and Dr. Ted McCauley is a part of their family. The thought that first occurred to me was to have Gordon and Tracey meet with the Israeli mob to negotiate Dr. McCauley’s release. I had a vision in my mind of a meeting between the German clothes-clad Mayes and the Israelis. But I wasn’t fast enough and qnjones had McCauley unceremoniously dumped at Krystle’s Kakes and Pies. Then in an even more amazing turn of events, qnjones had Becky tell Dr. Ted that she was responsible for his kidnapping and beating, and threatened to do it again if he crossed her. Then to top that off, qnjones Becky calls up Gordon Mayes, who surprisingly confesses to Becky to having been involved in Dr. Ted’s release by torturing his friends. Following up this series of posts led me to some questions:
The first question that occurred to me was, “Why were these adults taking all this abuse from a 14-year-old girl singer?” The answer is, “They wouldn’t.” The second question was, “What would happen if there was an Israeli mob invasion of Milborough?” Well Gordon and Tracey would handle it, of course, and send a strong message back to the Israeli mob, that it was not worth it for them to invade. The third question was, “What would the adults do to gain retribution against Becky?” Well, I didn’t want to go down that path, because the whole situation was getting too dark anyway. It was easier to let Howard take the fall for Becky by losing his job, to get some sense of retribution, even if it is only Becky guilt feelings.
Tomorrow: Howard goes job-hunting. In the strip, one of the most horrifying images to ever appear in a newspaper comics section.
As far as personal stories go, I have run out of amusing vacuuming stories. So, let's talk about something else.
In the previous day’s installment, Howard and Becky had broken into the Forsythe home to replace Gerald’s medicine with saline solution in order to return him to normal. The flaw in this plan is of course that unless Howard and Becky are willing to do this over and over again, every time the prescription is renewed, then it would not solve the problem. The second part of the solution was to clue in Dr. Forsythe and have him do it. That avoided having to do repeat break-ins. Then in an astonishing turn of events, qnjones posted her Becky talking to Dr. Schlanger who ordered a hit on Dr. Ted McCauley (the steroid prescriber) by the Israeli mob in order to solve the problem and this did not seem to disturb Becky very much.
We have already established that Gordon and Tracey Mayes, mainly Tracey, run the mob action in the town and Dr. Ted McCauley is a part of their family. The thought that first occurred to me was to have Gordon and Tracey meet with the Israeli mob to negotiate Dr. McCauley’s release. I had a vision in my mind of a meeting between the German clothes-clad Mayes and the Israelis. But I wasn’t fast enough and qnjones had McCauley unceremoniously dumped at Krystle’s Kakes and Pies. Then in an even more amazing turn of events, qnjones had Becky tell Dr. Ted that she was responsible for his kidnapping and beating, and threatened to do it again if he crossed her. Then to top that off, qnjones Becky calls up Gordon Mayes, who surprisingly confesses to Becky to having been involved in Dr. Ted’s release by torturing his friends. Following up this series of posts led me to some questions:
The first question that occurred to me was, “Why were these adults taking all this abuse from a 14-year-old girl singer?” The answer is, “They wouldn’t.” The second question was, “What would happen if there was an Israeli mob invasion of Milborough?” Well Gordon and Tracey would handle it, of course, and send a strong message back to the Israeli mob, that it was not worth it for them to invade. The third question was, “What would the adults do to gain retribution against Becky?” Well, I didn’t want to go down that path, because the whole situation was getting too dark anyway. It was easier to let Howard take the fall for Becky by losing his job, to get some sense of retribution, even if it is only Becky guilt feelings.
Tomorrow: Howard goes job-hunting. In the strip, one of the most horrifying images to ever appear in a newspaper comics section.
posted by howard at 9:47 PM
1 Comments:
qnjones,
I know our scenarios have never been too realistic, I was just surprised you turned the story in that direction, when I thought you had pretty much hit the end of it with the Dr. Forsythe story. As always, you challenge me in my follow up writing.
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