Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 10, 2022

Life in the limelight

and everyone’s afternoon, Adam.

What til you get the second game Clayton, parenthood!

I’m a retired teacher, and I subbed after retiring. I was in one of our high schools when they ran a simulation like this. The students got to choose how much education they wanted. After that they got to choose a job. The available jobs were determined by the level of education. Then they got their first months pay and had to budget for rent, groceries, car payment, gas, etc.

Clayton quit “Real Life” now back to real life.

Stop clogging the toilet, Adam.

Wait until he grows up and finds the IRL “game” has no PAUSE button or ESCAPE key.

“Real Life III: The Neverending ToDo list”

Some days you get the anvil, other days the anvil gets you. (Hmm. Not nearly as reassuring as Taz hoped)

Sorry to interrupt… but Plods has asked me to deliver a message to a few strips.

(I apologise if anybody already read it, but there’s bound to be some overlap.)

Some people have been worried because he hasn’t been around….

So I just want to tell you he’s OK…

He’s currently at home, recovering from a lung transplant, and will come back as soon as he’s able… and in better shape than before!

I remember when I was I college (and grad school), people constantly told me, “Oh, you’re hidden away in your little ivory tower. It’s going to be so much worse in the real world.” This is a lie. Everywhere you live is the real world. While in grad school, I had to earn money, secure a place to live, feed a child (got married and had a kid while I grad school), pay taxes and put up with ridiculous belittlement of my chosen life. Once I graduated and got a “real job,” life got much easier.

I know it’s from a discredited celebrity, but there were a lot of funny moments in “The Cosby Show”. This thread reminds me of the conversation Cosby had with his on-screen son, Theo, about finances:

https://youtu.be/nFY0HBkUm8o

The Douglas Adams game “Bureaucracy” was like that. I gave up too, before I gave it a chance to become either interesting, funny, or more annoying.

I would much rather deal with a clogged toilet in a video game than in reality

So basically, real life is no game. I get it.

Did he add the inflation suddenly reducing your score feature? More like flushing.

Which shows, life is not a bowl of cherries…….

And Clayton handled it the same way you did, he walked away.

High school is just organized babysitting…they should teach a lot of practical stuff. Remember Home Ec?

Simply more, much more real than these garbage (un)reality shows infesting and infectingour TVs now.The other day here in Australia the TV channel hosting the inexecrable show MAFS pu lilly warned somecontestants about publicising things so that the viewers would know the “storyline”….Once upon a time there was a whole load (5h1tload???) of television writers and producers who had absolutely no talent in producing quality television shows so they decided to get a bunch of wannabe obliviots to follow scripts supposedly about real-life but in fact we’re pure rubbish……