Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 28, 2013

Hopefully grandmother Evie’ll understand.

Well, it is funny – in a weird sort of way.

Well at least Aunt Joan got a sense of humor…

It’s always funnier when it happens to someone else’s kid.The same way it’s funny when someone else’s kid misbehaves, yet I’m mortified when it’s mine.

Of course it’s funny! That’s why it’s in the comics! :D

really that is funny!!!

Well, let’s just hope Holly learned her lesson.

I never considered what Holly did to be funny, Aunt Joan is right, Holly gets caugth even funnier. Never happened to my daughter in college not sure of HS. my son not sure of HS.

I’m sorry I wasn’t here last week.

Nowadays this would be even harder, thanks to certain online search features.

Since this misbehavior-in-school arc may be coming to an end soon, I gotta put in a spectacular misbehavior that might not quite fit in with today’s strip. When she was nine and in fourth grade (skipped kindergarten because she could read anything), our brilliant, otherwise-stable oldest granddaughter took a Swiss army knife onto the school bus and passed it around! We may have thought this had its funny elements, but were mainly mystified as to why she could have done such a thing. The middle-school principal was not amused, but they finally settled on a parent conference, an industrial-strength talking-to and a brief in-school suspension. That was four years ago; she hasn’t gotten into trouble since. No telling what might have happened to her in some school districts.

Remember when a Cub Scout jack knife was considered to be part of that uniform?

When my son was in 2nd or 3rd grade he had a Batman utility belt that had a “gun” that looked like a bat that shot foam pellets that he took to school one day & got it confiscated because it was a “gun”. I also got a call one day because he was playing with his umbrella like a rifle or sword or something & the principal had confiscated that. I live in a small town in MT, where we actually have some common sense, this was not seen in these cases at all.

I understand Val’s concern, it isn’t bad enough that she was so lazy she cheated, but she was too dumb to do it “right”. However if she’s lucky Holly will learn the first part of the lesson instead of the second, but knowing Holly she’ll see the “don’t get caught” part as being the most valuable lesson.

“Sad indeed.”Yes. Thank goodness, though, that it wasn’t a gun.

How about a Chinese army knife?Our teen son got caught sneaking a fold-up one out of Mexico. Good thing he doesn’t have kids.

I laughed when I read this strip in the newspaper this morning. Not my kid, though. LOL!