I don’t think there’s a single part of this that I understand.

Okay, so we have the cat and the fiddle, and presumably some dishes and spoons have run off together. But what do the first two panels have to do with anything, is there a reason the other aspects of the nursery rhyme are absent, and… huh???

So… Janis said what she said to encourage Arlo to check his messages and see the reminder about the tires?

(Of course, she could have just reminded him about the tires; and this might make him less eager to open one of her messages in the future)