Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for June 27, 2018

why do Peter and Stan even talk to each other anyway?

Bring back “Last Man Standing”!!!

Tony asked, about 2 hours ago

Stan! Am I right?

Yes, Tony. And he’s with Pete.

Nicely recognized. Here; have a gold star! ⭐

Then why is he talking to him?

I dunno…. I do think they’re friends.

I like the sarcasm in this strip.

I have friends who would say the same thing, even while they’re lending me the clippers.

Same with Peter and Peg… and with Elliot.

They love each other… but they’re funny.

Even living in the suburbs, they’re still a bunch of sarcastic New Yorkers….

sweetness and light aren’t part of this game…

(except now and then in private. )

All of the time, it would make for a dull strip… and we wouldn’t read it.

And actually… for my tiny yard, I buy cheap garden tools, cos they’re not used much or often…

and by my being careful, they work out fine.

But I’ve lent (non-electric) long handled hedge shears to two different neighbors, and they each wrecked a pair.

It looked like they tried to clip right through half-inch branches, instead of using loppers.

That would have ruined even $99 ones, so I was glad they were $7 specials.

The first ones, I actually gave to that neighbor…

and the second pair, I keep to lend out,

while hiding my newest ones in the shed.

Oh Hell!!! Don’t be so lazy or cheap and go to the hardware store and buy one. Stop bugging the neighbor. He’s a grouch!!!

This crabby neighbor is no Ned Flanders who would have said, “Okely, dokely”

But you do talk to him, with the same predictable results.