FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 10, 2019

Jason, your mother and grandmother are having a serious conversation; don’t get all greedy of what’ll be on your Christmas wish list.

Horrible timing, Jason! Just horrible…

I wonder if Bill wrote this arc from experience.

Sometimes the “perfect” Moms aren’t so perfect.

Andy would give her friends her famous kale/parsnip/tofu snacks in a room that was around 33 degrees F. How could they not like her!!??

Her friends liking her mother more than herself is interesting. How is that her mother’s fault? Andy should have been asking herself why that is. So far I am not feeling her pain. Quite the opposite.

One time I was playing with my friends – 2 sisters, who were a year apart – at their house. One time their mother actually said to them, “Why can’t you be more like Karen?” I wanted to die.

She had friends?

My mother had excellent social skills and I was autistic (we didn’t know at the time that this was my problem). I struggled to develop basic social skills because I wanted friends! When I would ask my father if I were doing better, he would say I was doing better, but LOOK at your Mother! She’s amazing" (or something to that effect). I found that extremely discouraging. I also took to finding skills I could do better than my mother and flaunting them.

Andy, you shouldn’t steal money from your mother’s purse. Did she think her friends would agree that was a good idea?

I feel like everyone’s missing the point of all this.

My mother was just the opposite. She would say nothing in public but at home she would heat up the wire hanger and apply it to my back, arms, or legs and would continue until I stopped moving or flinching. I thank dog for emancipation at 16.

competing with one’s parents (or children) is inevitably useless

@RobertRomero @Furienna

Wow! All that energy wasted in putting each other down when you could have combined forces to ridicule the ghastly solecism of the misspelled “embarassing.”Isn’t that embarrassing?