Just check out the garage sales tomorrow and buy Mike a better bike. If you look around you can always find a good selection of bikes at garage sales and they are usually cheap because parents don’t want to deal with bikes that the kids have outgrown.
With the amount of money that John charges for fees in his dentistry practice, THAT’S NOT A PROBLEM!! The family can afford to buy Michael and kind of customized bike he wants!!!!! I remember in later years of the strip they bought an antiques store that cost them a pretty penny, but the investment quadrupled their income!!!
If only you could really sell nearly everything at a yard sale! You can’t give half of it away and have to move it back into the garage. Or put it on the curb for free. That’s why I don’t have them anymore!
The bicycle probably got stolen in all the confusion of the yard sale. Had it had been for sale, there would have been a price tag on it. Without a price tag, the donor of the bike should have been tracked down and asked how much they wanted for it (even though all the money raised was going to the library). Surely to God someone wouldn’t just arbitrarily assign some dollar amount to it otherwise if it wasn’t theirs to do so . . . but then, with some people, there’s no rhyme or reason as to why they do some of the weird and/or stupid things they do sometimes!
It happened in Pensacola, FL about a year ago, that a guy had his expensive bike sold while he was busy looking around at a yard sale. Someone helping at the sale sold it really cheap, & I can’t remember if he ever got it back.
I stopped subscription to a newspaper when they stopped featuring this comic strip. I have been clipping the episodes and I wish to complete until the end.
legaleagle48 almost 11 years ago
Oops!
Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
At least it wasn’t John’s pants.
nickel_penny almost 11 years ago
“Well Mike, I told you to put it away three times. Consider this a lesson in taking care of your things.”
luckylouie almost 11 years ago
A new bike will cost about as much as they made at the yard sale.
cdward almost 11 years ago
But wait, yesterday they had sold out and were looking for more stuff.
loves raising duncan almost 11 years ago
Ellie, you have some explaining to do!
Sportymonk almost 11 years ago
Elle would have been better off just donating money. This is going to wind up really costing her.
bigal1010 almost 11 years ago
She was so focused on selling junk….
57-Don almost 11 years ago
Just check out the garage sales tomorrow and buy Mike a better bike. If you look around you can always find a good selection of bikes at garage sales and they are usually cheap because parents don’t want to deal with bikes that the kids have outgrown.
Can't Sleep almost 11 years ago
I’m sure the bike will turn up. This is a humor comic strip, not “Adventures in Bad Parenting,” as some here would have it.
terek almost 11 years ago
With the amount of money that John charges for fees in his dentistry practice, THAT’S NOT A PROBLEM!! The family can afford to buy Michael and kind of customized bike he wants!!!!! I remember in later years of the strip they bought an antiques store that cost them a pretty penny, but the investment quadrupled their income!!!
danlarios almost 11 years ago
just go to a yard sale somewhere and buy it back or one like it
twinsoniclab almost 11 years ago
If only you could really sell nearly everything at a yard sale! You can’t give half of it away and have to move it back into the garage. Or put it on the curb for free. That’s why I don’t have them anymore!
Gretchen's Mom almost 11 years ago
The bicycle probably got stolen in all the confusion of the yard sale. Had it had been for sale, there would have been a price tag on it. Without a price tag, the donor of the bike should have been tracked down and asked how much they wanted for it (even though all the money raised was going to the library). Surely to God someone wouldn’t just arbitrarily assign some dollar amount to it otherwise if it wasn’t theirs to do so . . . but then, with some people, there’s no rhyme or reason as to why they do some of the weird and/or stupid things they do sometimes!
charliefarmrhere almost 11 years ago
It happened in Pensacola, FL about a year ago, that a guy had his expensive bike sold while he was busy looking around at a yard sale. Someone helping at the sale sold it really cheap, & I can’t remember if he ever got it back.
nesnjul almost 11 years ago
I stopped subscription to a newspaper when they stopped featuring this comic strip. I have been clipping the episodes and I wish to complete until the end.