Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for May 23, 2024

Staycation just got my vote.

he airlines will appreciate that.

Not a good idea to make a disturbance on a plane. You could get put on the no-fly list.

Don’t even.

Just think, instead of just you and Dad getting to enjoy our fighting, we can a few hundred other people to annoy!

Or camp. Send the kids away for a week or two and then go to the beach without them.

We’re going to Gramma and Grampa’s, you and Hammie are staying there.

Send her to camp. Summer Camp. Then enjoy your vacation.

Give them both a couple of ’ludes before the flight.

The boys just got out of school and we are already going on our first vacation of the summer. They are 16, (just turned 16 yesterday), a 13 year old and an 11 year old. My wife insists that the boys need to see the Atlantic Ocean, (they’ve already been to the Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Atlantic)," but it’s a different state". She wants them to walk around historic places and “learn” history.

Now, keep in mind that we have a 20’ by 40’, 8’ deep swimming pool, a hot tub, a large estate with a creek, and pond. We have a 3 bedroom lake house not more than a 20 minute drive from home. We having a shooting range, and a state park within 20 minutes that has canoeing, horse riding, a very large swimming pool, hiking, climbing and camping. We have a 40’ boat for the lake and river, and 10 computers in the home.

BUT, MY WIFE SAYS THE BOYS WILL BE BORED OVER THE SUMMER AND WANTS TO GO ON VACATIONS!!!

Not helping your case, Zoe!

As kids we rarely had a vacation. I remember only one. We went camping and it rained the whole time. Kind of hard to entertain 9 children in a tent in the rain. We went home early. Besides, we preferred to be playing pick-up sports, climbing trees, playing tag, playing in the plastic pool, or just “hanging around”. We had more fun making our own entertainment. The guys usually didn’t want us girls playing sports; we were as good as they were, and that was not supposed to happen. lol

Fight for your “right” to fight.

Given how young she looks, she probably won’t remember it anyway. We took our kids to lots of places. To be fair, they loved it a the time, so time well spent, but it’s depressing now when you ask them if they remember it and they go ‘No’. At least they were happy.

That would get the whole family kicked off the plane Zoe. And your whole vacation would be spent in the terminal while your parents try to book a flight back home on another airline.

Summer camp never looked so…nice.

Oh boy, you kids, once you’ve been through O Hare Chicago or Mexico City airport, you’ll be way to tired and stressed to fight. Nothing breaks someone down like not having slept in forever and going through security and customs and all the hoops.

Late 60’s was about 10 years old, Northeast Ohio, our vacation was Cedar Point one day and Sea world the next. I was satisfied with that.

Zoe is right on fights.

I wonder…

Have some of Zoe’s friends been bragging about the fun trip they’re going to take over the summer and Zoe is feeling envious and wants to brag back?

You’ve got one of three choices :Christmas, European or “Vacation” all staring Chevy Chase

Interesting that Jeremy on Zits wants to go on vacation too.

When I was a kid, our vacations was camping.

Air Marshall’s frown on fighting on planes Zoe. Just sayin.

Plane, boat, train or rent an RV!!

“Or ship, maybe a submarine, sled dog? trains are nice….”

I always wanted to do a River Boat vacation or even a train ride with those sleeper cars, neither ever happened though due to no money. My toxic ex MIL promised to take us on a train trip for one of our anniversaries but that never happened either.