Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 23, 2019

alternate facts

At least you got a mastodon. When I was young, we had to hitch a ride on a Yeti. The problem was in trying to find one.

Lovely – we have a Parenting fact. (Those small little flights of imagination parents have to keep their kids pointed in the right direction!)

A school I went to in the 2nd grade is now a historical museum.

But it was a stinky mastodon.

My primary school was in a old dark building with wooden desks looking like church benches . This was in the first Italian 60’s .

You had a Mastadon? Lucky bastar……..nevermind.

We had it tough. There were 150 of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road!"

https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE

Is the sabretooth waiting on drop-offs?

That’s a mammoth…

Umm, sorry to be a zoo techie, but I think that’s a mammoth…

I see someone who doesn’t know the difference between a wooly mammoth and a mastodon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

That’s silly. Nobody now living rode to school on a mastodon. But we did get to carpool in a stagecoach.

The truth is..Oh, never mind. Seems most people don’t want the truth, just “feel good” lies.

“Cavern” … still just ‘ole in t’ ground.

You had a Yeti?!… so did I! … it was a loaner, though…

That doesn’t explain what his Dad had to ride to school on when he was a kid. T-Rex?

I would have loved to invent stories for my daughter but I found out it was too easy to tell the truth. You should have seen her face when she found out that as a kid growing up on a farm in the 50’s I picked cotton, emptied bed pans, limed the outhouse and rode into the coop to fill our tanker truck with drinking water before county utilities reached us. Young people today don’t understand that the tech in their hands today is a very recent development and that history unfolds faster than you can imagine.

I can only claim a narrow, dirt road in rural Florida that cut through a large cypress head. We had water moccasins and the occasional alligator sunning on the road.

Dad stories are the best.

Hey, it could have been a Wiley bear….

schools? what are these schools you speak of?

I walked to school everyday from kindergarten until I got into college. I didn’t start driving to college until my 3rd year.

Best strip today!

When I started school my folks bought a house on the school side of the street one block away. I walked everyday until high school graduation.

I grew up mostly in Colorado. School buses went through snow flawlessly. I now live in NC, and school is called off for 3 days if someone discards the ice from their Big Gulp on a city street. They call this “ice on the roads.”

Our school board couldn’t afford Mastodons or caves. We had to walk to the dead mammoth carcass for school

The grandfather of one of my patients had his school bombed out in WWII. They used what was left of a wall of the main building, painted it black and were able to find and make chalk (or something to write on the wall). Little town in Japan called Nagasaki.

Sam the Sham,and the Pharaohs ;)

At least you had a school …

In the olden days, I took a school bus to school. I had to wait for it.

I just love it when Dad and her sister “get even” like this !

I once walked twenty miles in a blizzard to avoid hearing my father tell me how he used to walk twenty miles in a blizzard…….But he caught up to me, and I had to listen, anyway!

And, just like that, Dad is cool.

On a daily basis I have to forward this to those unlucky folks whose newspapers have 86’d the stripl

The phosphorescent mold died at my school.

Now I know where Luci gets her wild imagination.

A snow skimmer would be neater.

When I was a kid, it was a 10 block walk to the church to attend mass and then go next door to the shcool and 10 blocks back for lunch and 10 blocks back after lunch and 10 blocks after school.

Except on First Fridays when we walked 10 blocks to church, attended mass, had communion walked home 10 blocks home for breakfast and then 10 blocks back to school and then 10 blocks back for lunch and then 10 blocks back to school and then 10 blocks home.

I think they were training us for a marathon.

You go dad.

And our teacher, Miss Noogah, was the sweetest Neanderthal you ever met.

And the sabre-tooth cat is eye’n ’em off in the corner ready to take his pick.

Geeze, all you youngsters. When I was young, we had to dodge meteors all the way to school, and forget about riding something: They hadn’t even invented “riding” yet. Heck, in those days, they hadn’t even invented language! (Sure did make school interesting).

I would’ve enjoyed the days when you had to ride horses.

To think we only had polar bears…

I can’t believe the wiley Danae didn’t catch that!!! Now that dad knows that he can be one up on her all summer! What fun he’ll have!!!

Our school was so far away (there wasn’t a large enough population to merit more than one) we had to wait for an asteroid strike and hope it knocked us in the right direction…