It’s a rare day that finds Dot in a bad mood, but this is one of them. She’s dead-dog, bone weary, exhausted. She’s at work for the big sale, but it’s “raining pitchforks” outside, and recent weather patterns have not inspired the locals to buy shorts and swimsuits. The customers are apparently as crabby as Dot. One of them even inspired her to draw an unflattering caricature.

Dot’s plan is to write a longer letter while she’s babysitting tonight, but if she’s this tired now, I’m not sure that plan will work at the end of a long and frustrating day.

So nice to know our cheerful, Princess of Positive Thinking is, after all, as human as the rest of us.