Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on popular culture

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Bagels or toast?

Denise Haversack, 46, municipal ribbon untangler

Allegedly residing at 83 Buttered Cul-de-Sac, Harrisburg, PA

Toast. A bagel makes breakfast feel like a jaw-strengthening exercise sponsored by cream cheese.

Percival Lunt, 62, retired supermarket misting-system consultant

Allegedly found at 211 Pumpernickel Annex, Toledo, OH

Bagels. Toast is just bread that has been frightened into becoming brittle.

Claudia Fennel, 35, freelance waiting-room magazine curator

Allegedly located at 9 Crumbly Outlook Terrace, Madison, WI

Toast. Bagels require slicing, spreading, and commitment. I am trying to keep breakfast emotionally casual.

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The Red Mailbox

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A baby curiously touching a man's face while he lies on grass. — “I told my mailbox a joke, but it didn’t laugh. It’s more of a dead-letter office.”

Every afternoon Harold walks to the faded red mailbox. Twenty years ago, he carried a letter to it, an apology, a confession. He didn’t mail it, and so it grew yellow in a drawer. Today he reaches for the letter, hand trembling with hope and regret. Mailboxes won’t wait forever.

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