Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 23, 2013

Even Bill Gates and Donald Trump had to start small.

Woman’s work!

SNERK ! That’s definitely my laugh for the day. All too true in life, Danae. That’s what parenting is all about…

Get him a cup of coffee and charge him 5 dollars.

Wield that butter knife proudly!

Whatever she brings back in that cup, DON’T DRINK IT!!! You should know your daughter well enough by now to know not to trust her!

Half a loaf is better than a kick in the knee,Is there going to be some tea or just more sympathy…?A whole loaf is better than a kick in the head.If you tell me what you mean I’ll tell you what I said.……I send you for jelly, you come back with jam..Who exactly do you think I am?……….(Hunter, Kick in the Head….)

And Danae, go clean your room…and get that nasty sock off the end of the bed…..Yeah, like that’s gonna happen…..

What happened to the woman Daddy was engaged to? I haven’t seen her and I think I have kept up. But I am old…….

Whatever happened to that lady he married?

Little things like that might come back to haunt you! Fifty years from now when Danae visits you in assisted living, don’t let her wheel your chair near any stair cases… Um, I’m giving advice to a cartoon character…

better to spread it around…..

After a while she can move to Starbucks.

And so it begins. No mater how good she becomes, her destiny is to fill her bosses coffee cup.

Design an app that hypnotizes people into doing what you want. Nothing to it.

I asked for a lot of things when I was a kid, but I never got them.

“Which father among you would give his child a snake when asked for a fish”—or for that matter, when asked for a snake would hand it over?

I’m reminded of a line from “Gone With The Wind” (admittedly, not the most enlightened movie):“Wantin’ ain’t gettin’.”

Danae is being awfully sober and practical this week. Surely that won’t last.

She will get back at him for this…..as far as $5 a cup for the coffee….I hear Starbucks is $7 a cup…..with “gratuity” she’ll charge him $10

The girl friend thing. I think she’s just been put in storage by Wiley. I read this every day and I haven’t seen any formal split. I continue to believe that she and the less glamorous girl that Dad carefully sidestepped for years are the same person.