Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 23, 2022

Didn’t they have this conversation before?

then how is Sergio supposed to keep in contact with you, Baldomero?

Next, someone is going to buy him a unicycle for Christmas.

But if the d**n thing is in your hand while you’re watching cat videos surely you get an alert telling you a text message has arrived. It might be your girlfriend, idiot, shouldn’t you be checking out who sent the text?

He ignores the alerts unless they’re links to a funny video.

Who pays for the phone? Fix that problem, Dad.

That’s all most teens his age is text. So Baldo is full of it

Geez, just how old is Baldo’s dad?!

I can actually count on one hand the number of times someone has actually telephoned me in the past year.

Baldo, if that is the only thing you use it for, hand it over. You’re done.

OK, but you can uze it for real communication, too. That’s the best part about modern cellphones: they have so many uses. They’re halfway to being technology-powered magic wands.

Not called cell phones anymore. They are portable video display devices.

When a parent calls or texts, you answer!