Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for August 20, 2015

No, son, like you’re doing with your father… right now! (I don’t have a Skype account.)

Oh dear, with Bev in Ohio, how will we know the question of the day?

OK, OK…when Bev refuses to do her job, and Tony doesn’t show up on time…it seems to fall to ME….

Just remember…this is TONY’s question, not mine:“Do you Skype?”

Now don’t expect me to answer it, too.I mean, how much work is one person supposed to do around here?

Anyhow….Skype, shmype.I have enough trouble walking… and breathing and … like… I dunno…. holding a fork, and typing, and stuff.

They’re always thinking up new things I’m supposed to do.

Do you Skype?

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Hmm… Skype… Sky-peeDid that once. On a plane.

No, it makes me look fatter than real life!

Neither do I. After that business with the school spying on the students, I’ve been afraid to even consider letting somebody have a look at my face – or this messy room I call a den.

I do not Skype, Facebook, Twitter or any of that other social butterfly nonsense.

LOL! I have a Skype account, but I uninstalled Skype a long time ago.

Five years ago I gave my then-79 year old father his first computer, and showed him how we could talk face-to-face on Skype even if we were hundreds of miles apart. It was a revelation to him; he is about to upgrade to Win10 and hardly ever looks at the television now. And we still Skype twice each week.

Omg. I have an relative like this. So annoying. She prefers text instead of talk. When I confront her she’ll pull out her phone and read the text to me instead of talking to my face. Oh, and by the way, we live in the same house.