Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 09, 2015

Even Calvin once tried to fix his parents’ drippy faucet until water gushed everywhere.

That’s probably the safest fix a teenage boy can do on his own. I wouldn’t want my kids to do more till I had a chance to look at it, that’s for sure.

So when you need to flush you kneel down with your face right above the bowl and . . . I don’t think so.

He’s flushed with pride!

I guess that’s one step up from filling a bucket with water and setting beside the “throne”.

Hee hee hee!

So am I the only one who has no clue what ‘grotty’ means. I can guess, given the context, and I will look it up but this is the first time I can recall Baldo teaching a slang term.

Okay, even having looked up the meaning of the term I just cannot see it fitting here. Maybe it is taking on new connotations – words do that, you know.

Not having looked at any previous comments, “Grotty” is short for “grotesque,” as defined by John Lennon in ‘A Hard Day’s Night’

Isn’t the saying “Grody”?

my sense of it was a british term meaning lousy quality. just looked it up.going out of style in england. rising in usage here.

If she just means it’s running free, then Baldo’s solution may work. But if it’s leaking onto the floor, then it’s cracked, and that’s a much more serious problem.