For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 22, 2016

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

sounds like something Calvin’s father would say and do to Calvin

Dad is no boob, he understands it all, and so will Mike.

Cruel, Dad. And Santa’s watching, too…

Warmth and sunshine?Its cold and snowing outside.This is Canada,it won’t be warm again until April at least!

At least Dad did not say “And getting exercise”. Of course that might sink the deal.

another new one…. love the “punchline”

Not nice, Dad! instead of being a sneaky so-and-so, why don’t you go out WITH your son? Share the task AND the play? You’d be doing a good thing as a Dad. And it would do good things for you, too!

I never noticed before that Mike wears a hat with pom poms on it; did he grab his sister’s hat by mistake?

Well he needs to get his "BABY"out for exercise somehow

Shoveled a lot as a kid. Became an adult, got a job, got a snowblower. Smart I thought. Realized I was still freezing and moved to Texas. Smarter, I think. But it’s darned hot in Summer.

Hey, Daddy- it’s your walk and your shovel, so it’s your job.

“take advantage”

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Key phrase.

That’s something my Dad would have done.

He had a knack for conning me into doing things.

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Most chores though, especially, as I grew older, like shoveling the walks and driveway in the winter and mowing the grass in the summer were expected of me without asking

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.Not that little hints weren’t dropped. Like: " You might want to get that shoveling done before it gets too heavy " or " Boy, that grass has really grown fast ! You might want to mow it before we lose the cat. " ( We didn’t have a cat ! )

LMAO!!

I saw a video the other day of a guy using one of those long plastic tables to shove snow off his walks and driveway. Lots faster than shoveling.

I think the catch-call caption for New Yorker comics would fit perfect here.

@ Linquist

You just didn’t know you had a cat since it was hiding in the grass!

What warmth, Dad? It’s been snowing. There’s no warmth.

Alpha omega

Vancouver is in Canada and it is rarely snowing.

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Night-Gaunt49

Houston is hardly tropical, but summers are 90/90 (90 degrees F and 90% relative humidity), so the British consulate there pays tropical hardship bonus. Incredulous laugh from those near the Red River.

This is why people have kids.

Where I live warmth and sunshine ≠ snow anywhere.

Sucker!

Alpha omega

That is just one snow. Next you will want to count each flake as a separate storm.

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Night-Gaunt49

Must be that “gorbal warming” everyone is talking about today.

Too bad the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to Canadians.