Tantalizing possibilities

Quite a few people sent me a link to this Foxtrot comic with the remote-controlled squid.

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They were all just trying to tease me cruelly, because they knew it would be my favorite summertime pool toy, and they don’t exist. I looked everywhere, but the closest I could get was a remote-controlled robot shark, which is only almost as good.

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Although, if we could mount laser beams on their heads…