Come on dear, those shelves need putting up... And you said you'd paint the garage doors. While you're at it, can you put the bins out? She's a hard taskmisstress!
Uh, sure, if he does that then he not only gets to do all the things she mentioned he also gets to cook for himself and the kids, clean the whole house, take care of the yard, take care of both dogs as well as the kids, and chauffeur the kids around without any help. Nope, best just to do the chores.
I don’t recall seeing kids in this strip. And no, the shelves DON’T ‘need’ to be put up at any particular time, and NO the garage door DOESN’T ‘need’ to be painted at any particular time, if at all.
And if he ‘HAS’ to do all that, he probably ‘HAS’ cut the grass too.
And I rarely got ‘chauffeured’ anywhere when I was a kid, we only had one car and Dad had it to work! I had a bicycle which didn’t require a chauffeur.
By the way, before some women’s libber gets the mistaken idea that my Mom was not both EXTREMELY talented AND very much appreciated by Dad and me, I will say that such an assumption is completely wrong. She was so talented a seamstress and tailor that she not only made her own clothes (dresses to Edith Head quality) but ALSO the business suits that Dad wore to work and that I wore to graduation from both high school and later college and later that I wore to work as an engineer. She also reupholstered the house’s furniture and the car’s seats and made the canvas walls for a camping trailer that Dad and I built the mechanical parts of. And she was an extremely good cook. The average woman today wouldn’t survive ten minutes to her standards! In fact she told me that I’d be better off just staying single than to marry the girls that existed in the 1960s when I’d bring home some wacko girl of that era.
But she ALSO had the philosophy that “it’s SO nice to be a REASONABLE person” which she used on herself at least as much as she used it on other people.
That’s why she and Dad stayed married for 61 years – and it would have been longer had not the Great Depression prevented their getting married until 1939. They met when she was 15 and he was 17 in 1929 and went together exclusively (each living in their own parents’ homes) for ten long years until the Great Depression ended. But then they got stuck with wartime rationing. Later, in the 1950s, if I wanted to get drowned in the bathtub when I was a kid, a good way to have it happen would have been to come home from school and repeat something ‘good’ about FDR that I had ‘learned’ from the school teacher!!
See here http://www.marriageuncensored.com/showPages/season4/410.php
You’ll find a LOT of my Mom’s philosophy expressed here ( no Laura Schlessinger is NOT my mother! )
ladywolf17 over 14 years ago
Snap to it! get to work.
BigChiefDesoto over 14 years ago
Trade her for another dog!
ejcapulet over 14 years ago
BigChiefDesoto said
Trade her for another dog!
Uh, sure, if he does that then he not only gets to do all the things she mentioned he also gets to cook for himself and the kids, clean the whole house, take care of the yard, take care of both dogs as well as the kids, and chauffeur the kids around without any help. Nope, best just to do the chores.
BigChiefDesoto over 14 years ago
I don’t recall seeing kids in this strip. And no, the shelves DON’T ‘need’ to be put up at any particular time, and NO the garage door DOESN’T ‘need’ to be painted at any particular time, if at all.
And if he ‘HAS’ to do all that, he probably ‘HAS’ cut the grass too.
And I rarely got ‘chauffeured’ anywhere when I was a kid, we only had one car and Dad had it to work! I had a bicycle which didn’t require a chauffeur.
I’ll still go with the dog! ;-)
BigChiefDesoto over 14 years ago
By the way, before some women’s libber gets the mistaken idea that my Mom was not both EXTREMELY talented AND very much appreciated by Dad and me, I will say that such an assumption is completely wrong. She was so talented a seamstress and tailor that she not only made her own clothes (dresses to Edith Head quality) but ALSO the business suits that Dad wore to work and that I wore to graduation from both high school and later college and later that I wore to work as an engineer. She also reupholstered the house’s furniture and the car’s seats and made the canvas walls for a camping trailer that Dad and I built the mechanical parts of. And she was an extremely good cook. The average woman today wouldn’t survive ten minutes to her standards! In fact she told me that I’d be better off just staying single than to marry the girls that existed in the 1960s when I’d bring home some wacko girl of that era.
But she ALSO had the philosophy that “it’s SO nice to be a REASONABLE person” which she used on herself at least as much as she used it on other people.
That’s why she and Dad stayed married for 61 years – and it would have been longer had not the Great Depression prevented their getting married until 1939. They met when she was 15 and he was 17 in 1929 and went together exclusively (each living in their own parents’ homes) for ten long years until the Great Depression ended. But then they got stuck with wartime rationing. Later, in the 1950s, if I wanted to get drowned in the bathtub when I was a kid, a good way to have it happen would have been to come home from school and repeat something ‘good’ about FDR that I had ‘learned’ from the school teacher!!
See here http://www.marriageuncensored.com/showPages/season4/410.php You’ll find a LOT of my Mom’s philosophy expressed here ( no Laura Schlessinger is NOT my mother! )
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Who cloned JOE? Sorry Joe.
treeologist over 14 years ago
Oh poor sod
Simon_Jester over 14 years ago
And hurry up, Fred wants your chair.
And Joe?
It’s only a cartoon.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Crack that whip.
NE1956 over 14 years ago
And her arms and legs are broken?
Pick one, honey, any one. I’m sure that marriage is equal in the UK too.
firedance1 Premium Member over 14 years ago
Fred could use his tail as a brush and paint the door.
Scrum over 14 years ago
… and knock back a few at the pub when you’re done!
persil over 14 years ago
Bossy or what eh??
Wildmustang1262 over 14 years ago
The master needs to do the unfinished chores immediately! :-)