Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for November 14, 2021

Getting a little ahead of yourself there Adam.

today has enough trouble without bringing up tomorrow dad!

Giant super-evolved rats… with ray guns!

At the very least the kid’s still hopeful for the future

and the rats are winning

You’ve got a job for life in this comic strip kid. You haven’t aged in 37 years. (It was either point out the obvious or refer him to Denis Leary’s song Life’s Gonna Suck.

Baby steps,Clayton,3 cups of coffee a day.

That’s why you shush and let the child talk.

Only if you’re lucky… Better to race real rats than human rats.

Yes. Rat racing. It’s the future…

Jetpacks and flying cars! What is this, the 1950’s?

Okay, not to be pedantic here, has anyone ever seen a real rat race? How do you handy cap a rat? Is there a rat derby? Do rat breeders produce thoroughbreds? Rat breeders?

Try listening more and talking less Adam.

Yeah, I remember being a kid dreaming of a future with flying cars and jetpacks, even though George Jetson made it quite clear it would be just another way to race the other rats.

We have enough idiots on the road as drivers right now. Last thing we need are flying idiots who would fall from the sky……

We were supposed to have had flying cars and jetpacks TWENTY YEARS AGO!!!

Thanks for the anxiety!

Here’s to the crabgrass,

Here’s to the mortgage,

In fact here’s to suburbia.

Lay down your briefcase,

Far from the rat race,

Where nothing can disturb ya . . .

—Allan Sherman, Here’s to the Crabgrass

The problem with being in a rat race is that you have to be one of the rats. Find a life where you don’t have to join.

Only Super Duper Extra Premium members got the last panel, but I’m letting you others in on the punchline:

Clayton: “I’m gonna have to race rats??”

Adam: “Yeah, but with the flying cars and jetpacks, you should be ok.”

You’re welcome.

“I’m gonna have to race rats??”

Especially if you join a race for a political office.

Don’t project your past onto your future. The past is a life lesson, not a life sentence.

I’m still waiting for the Jetpack I was promised in the 60s.

Jetpacks and flying cars have been about 10 years away for the past 70 years.