As a youth, many of the students at my school used to play a game called “shins”, where we’d take turns kicking each other in the shins until one of us gave in.
In some ways, it was a valuable ascetic practice for developing stoic resistance to physical pain. In other ways, it’s a bit weird we spent so long kicking each other for fun.
When I was a youth, we played hockey on a frozen pond. One of the kids didn’t have a stick so he brought a garden rake. I caught it in the mouth, a glancing blow, which chipped a tooth. Looking back, it could’ve been much worse. But – young a foolish…
A kick in high school gym class soccer (no shin guards) broke my fibula and tibia. I wound up with a hip high plaster cast on my leg for 2 months. I feel for you, Petey!
My brother and I used to play a game called “splits”. You would throw a knife, usually a pen knife, into the ground and if it stuck the other person had to do the splits to reach it. If they could reach it then it was their turn. We stopped playing when I stuck it in his shin.
Will Madeline recognize the error of her ways and save her son from the abuse called “soccer”? Or is Petey doomed to suffer the slings and arrows and kicks of outrageous fortune? Alice is not being very kind today….
monkeysky over 1 year ago
As a youth, many of the students at my school used to play a game called “shins”, where we’d take turns kicking each other in the shins until one of us gave in.
In some ways, it was a valuable ascetic practice for developing stoic resistance to physical pain. In other ways, it’s a bit weird we spent so long kicking each other for fun.
mccollunsky over 1 year ago
Get some boots first, Alice.
jmolay161 over 1 year ago
Alice is getting a kick out of all of Petey’s tribulations trying to play soccer.
jmolay161 over 1 year ago
Will the Otterloop parents just leave Petey alone and let him go back to his Little Neuro comics. Petey has his own creative universe of the mind.
JudasPeckerwood over 1 year ago
Personally, I’ve always thought that soccer would be improved by the introduction of sticks or clubs or rackets of some sort.
L'Europeo Premium Member over 1 year ago
One of RT’s best.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 1 year ago
Petey’s whole life? How long does that take? Like five seconds? Ten, tops.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 1 year ago
Alice cuts to the chase.
uniquename over 1 year ago
When you get a little older Petey, it does hurt when your shin gets kicked. Those kids learn to kick pretty hard.
A.Ficionada over 1 year ago
Alice sees an opportunity :O
JohnRitz over 1 year ago
Just wait until they enroll him in a sport that requires wearing a cup
WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago
When I was a youth, we played hockey on a frozen pond. One of the kids didn’t have a stick so he brought a garden rake. I caught it in the mouth, a glancing blow, which chipped a tooth. Looking back, it could’ve been much worse. But – young a foolish…
peter.rampo over 1 year ago
A kick in high school gym class soccer (no shin guards) broke my fibula and tibia. I wound up with a hip high plaster cast on my leg for 2 months. I feel for you, Petey!
GG_loves_comics Premium Member over 1 year ago
Alice is always so helpful.
6turtle9 over 1 year ago
The nightmare just keeps getting worse for Petey. Hopefully with seven Petey’s on the field, they won’t know which one to kick.
Classic Alice! Always so helpful when mayhem is called for.
jonochsendorf over 1 year ago
My brother and I used to play a game called “splits”. You would throw a knife, usually a pen knife, into the ground and if it stuck the other person had to do the splits to reach it. If they could reach it then it was their turn. We stopped playing when I stuck it in his shin.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Will Madeline recognize the error of her ways and save her son from the abuse called “soccer”? Or is Petey doomed to suffer the slings and arrows and kicks of outrageous fortune? Alice is not being very kind today….
JH&Cats over 1 year ago
Petey: What’s my motivation? Why on earth would anyone want to engage in any of this?
j.l.farmer over 1 year ago
Should have never said that with Alice around. She always wants to be the 1st to try out new things!