Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 08, 2018

Ok, Zonker, time for you to be the responsible one (ha, ha, ha).

Before they kick your trifling butt out.

In few words : “Get out from our sight”

Only thing harder than taking care of your kids: taking care of your parents and grandparents. Your kids will occasionally listen to you!

Nice reply, dad.

Well played Mr. Harris

I don’t think Zonk will be able to deal with moving upstairs to adult responsibility, from his comfortable basement apartment, and his parents moving downstairs. Oh, the ignominy!

Good thing that later on Zonker founds a thriving pot enterprise.

Yeah, Pop, a perfect zinger for Zonker.

Maybe none.

Zonk’s dad remembers the old saying: “be kind to your children, for they shall be selecting your nursing home”.

“I’m sorry to say that I have two pieces of bad news for you.”

“Give it to me straight, Doc, I can take it.”

“First, I’m afraid you have cancer.”

“Oh, wow, what a downer. What’s the other one?”

“Sorry to say, you’ve got Alzheimer’s.”

“Man, that sucks. Well, at least I don’t have cancer.”

“That’s grim, Doc. How much time do I have left?”

“10”

“10 what?”

“9 … 8 … 7 … 6 …”

We did that with our parents; the toughest thing was trying to disavow them of the notion that they should ‘die in their home’, instead of the long-term care facility with 24-hour attention…

He’ll be Gone before Breakfast.

Pop quiz time!

Young Zonker is to Responsibility as our current president is to:

a) Compassion

b) Truthfulness

c) Humanity

or

d) all of the above