Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 25, 2019

But there’s so much more you can blame on being a kid than you can blame on age.

In the words of the old saw, his tongue got in the way of his eye teeth, and he couldn’t see what he was saying!

Whenever we fumbled over what we were saying, my “big sister” DeeDee would tell us to take our tongue out of our eye teeth, so we could see what we were saying!

Don’t wait! “Geez. I didn’t know any better.” “Geez.I got growing pains.” “Geez. I said something pretty immature.”

Mr. Spaetzle sings a familiar song for me. Aging is one of the few things that comes naturally to most of us and one of the few destinations we cannot avoid. One can only hope it is as good for each of us as for the many commuters with whom we share the ride.

But. . . kids CAN blame all their missteps on age. Just not OLD age.

To paraphrase the old saying, "Inside every old man, there’s a nineteen year old wondering What the h*** happened? "

Youthful ignorance will get you out of trouble for just about anything. When you’re old and do something stupid people want to put you away in a Nursing Home.

Panel 2 looks like he’s about to induce vomiting. “Geez, THAT was a mistake!”

I just go with “to err is human”, covers it all

For a moment, I thought the punchline would be, “I can’t wait until I’m old enough to swear in earnest.”

The filter for our mouth from our brain is the frontal lobe. It forms last around 25, then starts shrinking first so when you are young you say things you don’t mean. And as you get older it starts happening again.

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Midway through One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one of America’s most haunting, brilliant books, comes one of its most haunting, brilliant lines: “All the guy had to do was wait.”

It’s a little less haunting this way. Probably a good deal less brilliant, too.

Geez, I’m hard on myself.

“All the guy had to do was wait” may be a haunting, brilliant line in context. Out of context it doesn’t mean anything.

A young geezer.