Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 15, 2009

Transcript:

Billy says, r"Hey, Mom?Where's dad?" Patty says, "He's hiding. He does it every year on his birthday." Billy says, "What for?" Patty says, "because he believes if you can successfully hide from your birthday cake, you don't turn a year older." Billy says, "Does he succeed?" Patty says, "Yeah, some years I don't feel like looking for him, so I give up." Billy says, "So how old is he?" Patty says, "Forty. But in his head he's twenty-seven." Larry says, "Twenty-seex." Larry thinks, "@#%$"