Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
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M2MM said, 8 months ago
Sad, but true in most cases of widowers.
unnormal said, 8 months ago
@M2MM
I’m not a widower, but I’m Old & Alone (snif), and I have really enjoyed getting creative in the kitchen; creative, quick, and clean.
And NO MICROWAVING!!!
But then . . . my case ain’t MOST cases, huh?
unnormal said, 8 months ago
Hm . . . one reason I’m Alone, I suppose, is that I never — well, RARELY — cooked before I was.
sea-green said, 8 months ago
@unnormal
Awww… well, it’s never too late, especially now you have your culinary skills to recommend you!
unnormal said, 8 months ago
@sea-green
Yeah . . . and I growed up some, too!
dotweasl said, 8 months ago
My mom died when she and my dad were 54. He’s now 76 and still waits for someone to fix him a plate when we get together for dinners. I don’t think he knows how to turn on the stove.
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Not meant as a slam on him, but he’s of a completely different era. He’s shocked that my husband can and will put together a complete meal on his off days.
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I love Frank—he’s like my dad in so many ways. It’s like you have a front row seat in our house, Greg!!
celecca
said, 8 months ago
my husband has cooked exactly 2 meals in our 10 years of marriage. he’d live on lunch meat sandwiches or chicken bar-b-q hot pockets if it was up to him.
david_42 said, 8 months ago
My mother got herself a big pile of paper plates after my dad died. One of my nephews made her a holder in woodshop. It says, “Grandma’s China”.
david_42 said, 8 months ago
And on topic, dad never had any problem cooking when necessary and did most of it when camping. Born in 1922, but always felt people should be able to take care of themselves.
OldestandWisest said, 8 months ago
In my family it was just the opposite, my Mom’s father was a doctor, so they always had servants, so she didn’t know how to cook at all when she and my Dad got married. But she developed into quite a good cook by the time I could notice, although she didn’t particularly like to do it.
treesareus said, 8 months ago
The problem is “cooking for one” isn’t easy, no matter how good of a cook you are. Doing it day after day is a pain. Why make all that mess for just a small meal?
Allan said, 8 months ago
I just bought a Panasonic Microwave (refurb, on sale for $60) and I can hardly wait to buy a bunch of
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Perkycat said, 8 months ago
My husband loves to cook – has even cooked a whole Thanksgiving dinner. I’m a good cook but not my favorite thing to do. I’d do the microwave thing but too much bad stuff in those dinners.
chromosome
said, 8 months ago
My dad is a 97-year-old widower, and regularly eats lunch at a local diner (good for social contact) and eats microwave dinners, supplemented by fruit and desserts. I think those microwave dinners with meat and vegetables can be pretty good. I eat my main meal at work or scrounge together mainly vegetarian meals when I’m off work.
blather046047 said, 8 months ago
When my niece moved from dorm to apartment, her mother gave her a cookbook called “Help, My Apartment Has a Kitchen!”