Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for November 11, 2020

Aim for the car! Dual exhausts!

Nothing to add but I “Like” today’s strip.

Yep, it’s all downhill from here on out.

Count your fingers and toes when you’re finished.

I remember when i was really young wanting to do the laundry because i thought it would make me feel like an adult and when i finally got to my mom also let me do the dishes and mow the yard so i could feel like even more of an adult and i realized after a short time that being an adult sucks.

Wait…we get a strip three days in a row? The pod aliens have body-snatched Tauhid!

When I was a toddler, I had a toy plastic lawn mower….the dull plastic blade spun as you pushed it. I really thought it was cutting grass and I was helping Daddy. I didn’t realize I was being trained.

dad is obviously a fan of the book “Tom Sawyer” but hasn’t let his son read it yet.

When we were children we were soooooooo stupid… I miss that.

when I worked in an afterschool program we always ran the vacuum at the end of the day. One vac got replaced by a model that looked like a something from a space ship. Suddenly the boys wanted to take turns cleaning the carpets. I have to admit, it was a cool looking vacuum.

Age and guile … :-)

That excitement should wear off any minute now…

Back before safety police, I had a self-propelled lawn mower that you to manually shift out of gear to stop and push a metal bar to short out the spark plug to shut off.

My middle child wanted to earn a few bucks mowing the lawn, so I said sure. About 15 minutes into it, I went into the house to get her a drink and I heard a blood cuddling scream from the yard. I rushed out the door, leapt over the railing and got to her as she was running across the yard toward the door. I stopped her and started checking her all over. Nothing. The only word she could get out was “Snake!”

While this was happening, the mower was still happily chugging across the yard. I walked over, stopped it and shut it off.

Apparently it when she saw it, screamed and let go, it was in front of her because when I looked back along the path it had just mowed, sure enough there was a snake. Some assembly required, but you could tell.

You fell in his trap… sigh

A chance to operate a big noisy machine with spinning blades? Who says no!

Well played, Dad!

Pretty smart dad.

My youngest nephew loves using my riding lawn mower. I love letting him. :)

And tomorrow he said I can dig up and clean out the septic tank !

Ah… I regret to say that I fell into this exact trap myself as a kid.

I just wanna say, I am a kid and I would BEG to do the dishes. After the first couple of times, I realized washing the dishes was going to be my least favorite chore for a long time.

Stupid kid! He’s trying to stiff you! You need to go on strike!