Mr. Nutley has issues.
“Issue” is an outdated term for a kid.
Mr. Nutley has issues of the other kind, too.
He’s gotta calm down. Y’know, without actually passing out.
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So if we all rebel against our parents (and sometimes it’s not so much rebelling as just not really being bothered to take them as seriously as they’d like to be taken…) and your parents are all loosey-goosey and outdoorsy, but they TELL you to be all orderly and indoorsy, WHICH thing do you rebel against? And what if it’s the other way around and they work office jobs and tell you to become a flower child and join a commune?
Well, you rebel against what they SAY, of course… unless of course, they say it with a wink and a nod, then they’re HOPING you’ll rebel against that, in which case… Ah, forget it. Do what you do. They’re gonna say you’re rebelling anyhow. Turns out, it’s not up to you, but to whoever’s talking about you.
I’m just guessing that the talk with her mom went more toward Dad’s interests.
And that only the last few words of THIS talk were of Steven’s interest.
Oh, what we learn about our folks as we get older.
It’s never GOOD, is it?
Hubris’ subconscious is pretty adept at conjuring up a Dad. Good Advice, Upbeat Manner, and a Heads-Up to be careful.
I guess when Dad’s not there in person, your subconscious has to work overtime… or overwork sometime. Like Naptime.
“Hubris-ish-ness”
That’s a word, now.
Nice of him, isn’t it? Steven, to step in and ask the question that Kara needs asked.
It might have been awkward for her to throw that out to Hubris and have to admit she really never asked about his family.
Steven’s a nice boy.
Kara is putting two and two together.
I have no idea what her math skills are like.
What do you think?
Someday, I reckon, there’ll be a Nutley in the Olympics.
Not one of these, probably, but maybe a grandkid of the littlest Nutley. A proud Nutley, who got a bike as a child… because he or she WANTED it!
A lot of my humor comes from people being oblivious about themselves.
I still get tickled at a lot of comments under my other strip The Buckets on GoComics.com. A lot of commenters seem to think of comic strip characters as somehow ‘Other’, meaning ‘not themselves’. When, in fact, I’m often poking fun at the attitudes I’ve come to expect from them in the very comics they don’t see themselves in. I find it very satisfying.
The idea that Bob is like his dad and doesn’t see it is funny to me.
