#576: Packages explain

[Cueball is sitting at his computer.]

Cueball: I love getting packages.

[Megan enters and Cueball turns towards her.]

Cueball: I set up a script to search eBay et. al. for $1 items with free shipping.

[Cueball comes home with a backpack on his back and find a package waiting for him on his doorstop.]

Cueball: I gave it $365, so each day it can buy me something random.

[Cueball, again sitting at his computer.]

Megan (off-screen): What if you just end up with lots of crap?

Cueball: I’ll give it away.

Cueball: But I’m sure I’ll end up with some interesting stuff.

[The next five panels have a caption in a black frame at the top. The caption is written first for each panel. In the first panel Cueball has unpacked a hose. The paper lies in tatters on the floor. Megan stands next to him.]

Day 1: Length of rubber hose

Cueball: Could be handy around the house.

[Cueball stands with a black item and the packaging material it came in. Megan looks on.]

Day 2: Ski mask

Cueball: It’s spring, but hey.

[Cueball is standing alone with a bear trap and the box it came in on the floor.]

Day 3: Bear trap

Cueball: Huh.

[Megan is back as Cueball looks at a piece of paper that came in an envelope.]

Day 4: Tourist map of the Pentagon.

Megan: Uh oh.

[Cueball is standing alone with a bottle of lube in one hand and the box it came in in the other hand.]

Day 5: Lube

Cueball: I’m stopping this before I end up on every F.B.I. watch list ever.