That doesn’t sound so bad. How I long for the carefree days of my teens. No worries about going to work, retirement, health insurance, rent, bills, etc. Although the only video game we had back then was Pong.
Wrong, kid. By the time he’s forty, he’ll be living in YOUR basement with you supporting him out of your youngest child over-developed sense of responsibility.
Baldo does bother to have you help him with his schoolwork, Gracie, and is already holding a job. He has some degree of a work ethic. He goes out with friends, he isn’t a loner. So he does try at the things he does. If the economy limits his choices at worst I see him working with his father and helping Sergio take care of their great-aunt to keep her at home instead of in a nursing home. Or in a management position where he works now. And that is if the local economy and what he can get for job training if not college (he might do better with a vehicle-related technical program than he might do at many desk “college degree required” jobs, temperamentally and financially). Since Gracie will likely get a scholarship and even be given the chance to take either AP courses in high school or one of the arrangements where gifted students can take freshman-level courses at the local community college instead of some at the high school and get credit at both schools (so the English requirement is checked off at high school and she has 3 college credits already when she starts at the college), at least Sergio can be more confident in helping Baldo with college, technical school, or other training.
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
Nine more years for me.
Gigantor over 9 years ago
That doesn’t sound so bad. How I long for the carefree days of my teens. No worries about going to work, retirement, health insurance, rent, bills, etc. Although the only video game we had back then was Pong.
Constantinepaleologos over 9 years ago
No way Sergio’s going to let that happen.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 9 years ago
Wrong, kid. By the time he’s forty, he’ll be living in YOUR basement with you supporting him out of your youngest child over-developed sense of responsibility.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 9 years ago
Oh of course Baldo.
Petemejia77 over 9 years ago
Gracie looks like a fish about to eat something if you remove her body in the second panel!
banjinshiju over 9 years ago
That is close to my situation- except for the fact that I am almost 60, married, and paying a note on my own home.
kattbailey over 9 years ago
Baldo does bother to have you help him with his schoolwork, Gracie, and is already holding a job. He has some degree of a work ethic. He goes out with friends, he isn’t a loner. So he does try at the things he does. If the economy limits his choices at worst I see him working with his father and helping Sergio take care of their great-aunt to keep her at home instead of in a nursing home. Or in a management position where he works now. And that is if the local economy and what he can get for job training if not college (he might do better with a vehicle-related technical program than he might do at many desk “college degree required” jobs, temperamentally and financially). Since Gracie will likely get a scholarship and even be given the chance to take either AP courses in high school or one of the arrangements where gifted students can take freshman-level courses at the local community college instead of some at the high school and get credit at both schools (so the English requirement is checked off at high school and she has 3 college credits already when she starts at the college), at least Sergio can be more confident in helping Baldo with college, technical school, or other training.