Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 10, 2024

Is he leaving before he gets his call-out fee?

One hospital had to conceal information from psychologists to prevent them from stealing patients from each other. There are HIPAA laws, but a psychiatrist qualifies as a doctor.

Plumbing pays better than Psychology? Either way, you’re dealing with a bunch of cr*p.

Cha-ching plumbing. Clever.

Word to the Wise Guy: Don’t let your horse into your swimming pool, lest there be results more tragic. You don’t want to beat a dead horse!

Best joke EVER! :D

“The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt notes in his new book, ‘The Anxious Generation’ that there is a striking correlation between the birth of social media and the iPhone around 10 to 15 years ago and a long list of psychological and social pathologies among adolescents, from sleep deprivation to suicide.” (Bret Stephens)

Through coming generations, the tech-savvy but addled will be needing psychologists more and more while those in the “handy” trades like plumbing will be able to name their price.

re the last frame… I had a slow draining kitchen sink. In & out in a half hour… $390.00

I can’t remember the comedian who told the joke but it was the IRS was investigating John Gotti because his income was Five million dollars and his occupation was listed as a plumber. They dropped it when they realized that is what plumbers make.

How did the plumber know that the horse (Lucy) was a her?

When was the last time you heard of a poor plumber, electrician, etc.?Yet schools push hard for students to go to college and avoid the vocational trades.

All Lucy needed was a ‘little’ incentive. Problem solved.

The last panel shows he’s not a real plumber, no crack showing. (I know it’s a CLICHÉ but I figured someone would say it). ;-}

We should send him to Washington to clear the clog in the House.

Has anyone commented on the unusual use of color in the comics this week? Is the regular teem on vacation?

We have class distinctions in the US. We just don’t always acknowledge them. Plumbers, farmers, so-called blue-collar workers seem to look down on people with office jobs, assuming they ‘just sit around all day, they don’t really work’. [People with office jobs may snub blue-collar workers for being less educated.]

When my kids were in school, I volunteered a lot at the school with Helen, the wife of a local plumber. I was an operations research analyst. She and I got along fine, but her husband, Rob, seemed to have a problem with me. Not exactly a chip on his shoulder, but more a dismissive attitude — the ‘what-do-you-know, you’re just a college-grad and you’ve always had it easy’ attitude. One evening when I arrived at their house for a meeting, Helen was still putting the kids to bed. So I sat in the living room with Rob and tried to make conversation.

After a couple of his put-downs, I got fed up and told him that yes, I did have some things easier because my folks insisted on me going to college. They had saved money to help me pay for it, I held summer jobs and got two scholarships, so I didn’t go into debt getting my education. And, after a couple of false starts, I found a career that I enjoyed. I had a monthly salary, health benefits and a retirement plan. Our house [which he knew] and our two family cars were all the property we ‘owned’. He and his brother owned their own business and, along with house we were sitting in, he also had a cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks with a fancy boat and a cabin in the Rockies where they went skiing every winter [they also owned rental properties around town, but that was never talked about]. My family had none of that. Our salaries went towards our kids’ education and activities and our home mortgage. Vacations were spent visiting relatives. We had different priorities, different interests. Different; not better or worse.

March 11, 2005.

It probably does.

Wealthy plumbers? That’s nothing but a pipe dream!

Let this be a lesson to all you college bound teens worrying about financing your education. Try plumbing, instead. On the job training and pay. Followed by great pay and no college necessary. Or, at most a tech school certificate.

OMG, I remember my father telling this joke 60 years ago!

….thanks for checking!

Better than a student loan.

Plus, more job satisfaction. Unlike most people, pipes can usually be unclogged when they´re full of shite.

That’ll be $129.95.

How did he know the horse’s pronouns?

I know a couple of guys who used to be MDs (doctors) and quit to be general contractors.

I had a plumber come by who said he had a degree in welding technology but that the jobs just weren’t there.

How did he know the horse was a ‘she’?

Motivational speaking.

That is least subtly named plumbing business ever.

How did the plumber know it was a she?

Fixed.