Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 30, 2022

Aha! NOW we know the secret!

Just hope it’s not the list of what Ms Plainwell said she wanted for her birthday.

I used to make a list before every vacation, as I had more vacation weeks than my husband and used those days to catch up on large tasks like painting, wallpapering, handiwork around the house etc. But it was always too long a list to finish in one vacationweek.

Making a vacation list is like taking your laptop to the beach.

Well you can’t fail something that doesn’t exist.

They make paddle boards that will hold at least six. They’re great when the kids come home for vacation.

Biggest paddle board I’ve ever seen was in fourth grade elementary school, circa 1963.

High school phys ed.teacher drilled holes in his so he could swing it faster.!!

Laminated lists. Left in your pocket. On shore.

After a certain age, each wake-up provides its own list and each evening shows what’s been done. The two seldom match. And the older one gets, the greater the difference between start and finish. Acknowledgement of one’s shortcomings then becomes a whole other list.

Clever. ;-) Writing down the list is a valuable exercise — it gets you thinking. But following the list isn’t necessarily useful, so writing it down in a way that’s self-destructive means you don’t have to worry about being held to it.

Frazz has his priorities in order.

As you age the ink doesn’t matter because you either forget where you put the list, or forgot to write the list.

I have just the pen! The ink smears if you so much as sneeze in its general direction.

Some more wonderful Frazzian advice for you, little kid: “If anyone recommends that you check out the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, run like hêll in the opposite direction.”

Frazz, you are a man of wisdom.

Alternatively, stick it in your pocket and then go to a nude beach. (She can wait a decade or so before following that advice.)

Guess you don’t mind ink smearing the inside of your pocket.

I seem to remember, from the service, that some sensitive information was printed on water soluble paper.

And listen to “Beginnings” by Chicago.