Today's panel asks the reader to ponder whether it is considered ethical behavior if you do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Burl and Joy are clearly not shrinking violets when it comes to thievery, driving around in the Dodge Bandit with a box of Hampton Inns Kleenex brazenly perched on the back seat shelf. (For what it is worth, I assume the other item in the back seat is also stolen, however the illegible text makes it impossible to be certain.)
Yet, here, in the middle of the act of thieving a pen from the local Savings and Loan, they are suddenly made aware--by a subtly-placed security camera and a not so subtly-placed sign--that prying eyes may have witnessed their most recent crime. It may even be, Burl surmises, a trap designed to end these wanted desperadoes spree of terror.
In the end, they decide to make the ethical choice and return the pen. Though the obvious inference is that they would not have done so if they felt they could get away with keeping it.
Making the right choice, for the wrong reason.
On a deeper level, the reader is challenged to examine their own ethical standards and ask what would they do if they switched places with Burl and Joy?
To which the obvious answer is: never stop screaming in horror at finding out you were trapped inside the world of The Dinette Set.
These marginalia chose to drive off a cliff rather than be captured:
- The Crestwood Retentive Savings and Loan...I don't know how to explain that exceedingly odd naming decision.
- What is the little gyroscopey thing on the dashboard?
- It's quaint to think that somewhere in the USA drive-through tellers still exist and are favored over ATMs.
2 comments:
I believe the other item on the back dash is a Pittsburgh Steelers snow globe.
The item on the front dash would be the suction-cup stick-on floaty compass.
Drive-thru tellers, complete with suction tube thingies, still exist in my town.
I'm going to go bang my head on my desk and whimper, "Why?", over and over again now.
Yes, drive-through tellers do still exist in the U.S. and are used by those in the Burl/Joy/etc. age group. Just saw this yesterday when I stopped off at my bank to deposit a check. They even use the little pneumatic tubes. The more things change...
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