Saturday, January 25, 2025

Get the Heart Pumping

A woman is angrily talking on the telephone. "Oh, it's not that Brutus wouldn't like to attend the PTA meeting with me tonight, Marge...It's just that he's going to have a nasty headache!" Brutus, who is painting the house, has scrawled NO NO NO NO NO on the wall and on his wife's blouse in paint.
February 28, 1966
I'm all for painting NO on the wall, but on your wife? Brutus deserves whatever happens that gives him his headache.

Why is it such a big deal to go to this PTA meeting? Do both parents need to go? If she doesn't want to go without her husband, then maybe she just needs to quit.

Brutus comes into the kitchen covered in snow. Gladys is sitting at the table with a cup of coffee. "Phew! It took me an hour to shovel the drive. I'm exhausted!" "It's Saturday. Where do you have to go today that the drive couldn't wait?" asks Gladys. "I want to go to the gym to work out."
I have never seen Brutus at the gym. Does Brutus think the diner he always goes to is a gym? He should go to the doctor and make sure his brain is okay.

And why is he covered in snow?!