‘Home Showing’ Hughes really has “awkward” down to a fine art, hasn’t he? I don’t know the outcome of this visit, but you can bet it’ll never happen again. She was caught off guard to the point of curtains not covering ANYTHING for her. The car in the background looks like a new Ford Falcon. Mom had a light green ’61 Falcon station wagon back in the ’60s. Absolutely!

LOVE ‘Sunday Visitors’! What a dilemma THIS unfortunate woman has found HERSELF in! She has to be ENRAGED with her husband but trying to hide it all the while thinking “Oh God, what am I going to do NOW?” “This can’t possibly be happening!”

‘Dog Walks Down the Aisle’ might engender a few ‘what ifs’ per your notes, but it’s pretty mild compared to the top 2!!

‘Hitting the Buffet’ is an all-time personal favorite of mine, just like ‘Doggy Buffet’ (by Richard Sargent). So it’s the HOUSE that’s the unexpected guest. Huh. And all this time I thought it was pajama boy! I also loved all the nuances Hughes put in that were state-of-the-art 1961, and look better than ever NOW!

‘Bridge Party’ Yeah, I think this husband needed to turn around immediately and kill some time checkin’ out the brand-new flashy ’54 cars just coming into the showrooms. I wish I could do that NOW!

‘No Chance to Be Alone’. Great cover!! Really, really awkward, BAD situation though. If they tried on purpose to have this happen it wouldn’t. You know that. Someone has some equivalent Karma coming his way. Dirty pool I say, even if it’s at the beach!

‘Sunday Visitors’. Great cover too. The irony of it is they probably had none or just a few visitors on the Sunday’s preceeding and following this one. Well, reflecting on such covers helps us tolerate our own versions that make us want to scream–but, alas, only up to a point.