Mini comicIf Rassie Did…Episode 2

If Rassie Did the School Run

Team selection at 06:00, cones in the bakkie and a lunchbox thrown in from touch.

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  1. A line of sleepy children with backpacks stands in a lounge at dawn beneath the wall clocks. Rassie, in a green cap, faces them holding a clipboard.Enlarge panel 1
    Panel 1.

    06:00. Team selection.

    • Rassie: Shoes on in three phases. Nobody gets picked on reputation.
  2. Rassie, in a green cap and sunglasses, drives a cream bakkie along a jacaranda-lined morning road past orange traffic cones.Enlarge panel 2
    Panel 2.

    06:52. Pre-planned route.

    • Kid: Dad, why are there cones in the bakkie?
    • Rassie: Traffic is just a rush defence.
  3. At the school fence Rassie throws a lunchbox in a high arc to a child with arms raised. Lerato watches, mouth open.Enlarge panel 3
    Panel 3.
    • Lerato: Did you just throw that lunchbox in from touch?
    • Rassie: Five-metre lineout. Straight throw. Sandwich retained.

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  1. Panel 1

    A line of sleepy children with backpacks stands in a lounge at dawn beneath the wall clocks. Rassie, in a green cap, faces them holding a clipboard.

    Caption: 06:00. Team selection.

    Rassie: Shoes on in three phases. Nobody gets picked on reputation.

  2. Panel 2

    Rassie, in a green cap and sunglasses, drives a cream bakkie along a jacaranda-lined morning road past orange traffic cones.

    Caption: 06:52. Pre-planned route.

    Kid: Dad, why are there cones in the bakkie?

    Rassie: Traffic is just a rush defence.

  3. Panel 3

    At the school fence Rassie throws a lunchbox in a high arc to a child with arms raised. Lerato watches, mouth open.

    Lerato: Did you just throw that lunchbox in from touch?

    Rassie: Five-metre lineout. Straight throw. Sandwich retained.

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