Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for October 02, 2019

That was a good plan

Kevin can spy, but Miles can plan. Neither of them can figure out long-term consequences worth a darn.

Kevin’s mom would probably pay to have him sleep over.

These two under one roof for an entire night!!! I hope their home owner insurance policy is up-to-date and covers “natural disasters”. My mom knew better. There was no amount of begging that would cause her to give in to me and my friends having a sleep over.

“Phase Two” is always easier. Always.

When my kids do this, the answer is automatically “No.” They have learned not to try to manipulate me this way. (Meaning they learned to get more subtle.)

It was almost six months, but finally following through on the idea suggested in the third comic strip, on April 10.

Miles’s family must be one of the best-off in the neighbourhood. In 1985, we had two landlines (one solely for my father’s study) with two corded phones plugged into the mainline (which was even still pulse-dial only, and I think both phones hooked up to it had dials), and a tone-capable line for the study with a beige Model 2500 hooked up that I think was actually one of Mountain Bell’s last rental phones (though we never gave it back and it moved houses with us). I don’t think there was a cordless phone in the entire development, and certainly not with any of the families whose kids my sister and I visited.

It still might work. Anyway, is that a Motorola?

Really, if they knew that the answer would be “NO! Cause I said so!” the first time they ask, why did they even bother?