FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 14, 2011

she’s old enough to iron her own clothes.

Spoiled teenager - so what else is new?

Remember your first apartment when you discovered the ironing wasn’t magically done and somebody forgot to buy toilet paper?

When I was her age we ironed our own clothes … uphill, both ways, in the rain, with a dog chasing us, in a tornado.

Now got off my lawn.

Don’t you just love drama queens?

Typical teen, everything’s a crisis!

^ Typical female teen …

My brother and I never did this to our mom. Two sisters were another story.

The clothes we wore in our younger days didn’t need ironing. Thank goodness.

^???

What’s this thing called ironing???

I do have an ironing board around here somewhere. Don’t know if I have an iron or not… If it ain’t Permanent Press, it ain’t welcome in the house!

I have an iron and an ironing board. I sometimes use them to iron on mending tape.

Some hard working chemist labored for years to make permanent press. It would be very disrespectful of chemists to buy clothes that need to be ironed.

learned to “iron” as a teen then discovered permanent press. Immediately dropped “ironing” from my skill set.

I go through the same stuff, even though I plan the night before, so stuff like this doesn’t happen.