The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 21, 2014

Looks like a smurfwalks like a smurfstep on it like it was a smurf.

Sneaky mom, real sneaky!

I love this strip lately! I’ve always enjoyed it — and appreciated it — but lately it’s belly-laugh-out-loud funny! And Mom is scoring big time!!

Youth and innocence is no match for age and trickery . . .

Yup, we tried this approach, Greg. Our 14-year old saw through it immediately, died it green. Twenty years later, she has rainbow dreads… Marched to her own drummer! Great strip!

When did Sarah become a psychiatrist along w/ a former School Nurse?

Toby would go with never mind.

On my team we have a PostDoc Chemist that dyes his hair with different colored streaks every few weeks. He also has a fair number of visible tattoos, quite flamboyant ones.I guess the rolled eyes from some of the older staff doesn’t bother him too much.

@Greg Cravens & Llywus42:I’m a college professor and long ago learned no to pre-judge based on appearance (one of my sharpest math/stats students had a purple mohawk). You can get away with having odd hair colors if you’re a friendly person, have some real talent/ability, and perform well. But you do have to accept that people can’t immediately see your ability and personality, so those who don’t (yet) know you may make incorrect and unflattering assumptions about you based on your most attention-grabbing visible characteristic. If you can deal with that with equanimity, then go for it.

I bet mom also saying, “Great idea! I’ll dye my hair blue too! We can be twins!” would also have worked.

Not after you’ve put him off… Which was REALLY COOL!

xxx

Mom got mad at me – for buying the cheap dye. It rubbed off on the pillowcases. So I learned to spend a couple dollars more, or wait. .My dentist will sometimes do strips of colour – metallic blues, reds, purples. I like my dentist.

Greg, our daughter then shaved her head at 16 (no lice were harmed) , went off to college in the PNW, grew it back (everybody had shaved heads) and entered her rainbow dreads phase (still in it). But everyone loves the look, and her, and today she’s a Montessori teacher in Portlandia. Perfect!