Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for August 13, 2018

Next thing you know, Kate will just reach over and dislodge the cell phone and turn it off. Then she’ll put it away somewhere so Michael can’t find it.

Let’s see! Take the iPod and pull out it’s batteries! That’ll get his attention quick.

I don’t know but my kids learned early that this kind of sass and mis-reading of what they were told got them their biggest punishments. I told them that they were smart enough to know what was meant and that I knew any mis-interpretation was deliberate.