Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 10, 2020

We all pick our role models, is the key takeaway here

the things you learn about parents from TV

And to think once upon a time parents felt comfortable letting their kids watch TV without a V-chip…..

Don’t make me turn around, you don’t want me to turn around, I Will turn this car around…(she never did!)

A bunch of us from church used to go to the cathedral in DC from time to time. One couple had a van, so we’d all pile in, and act very much this way for the first couple of miles. “He’s looking out my window!” And the driver would reply, “Don’t make me come back there.” “She’s touching me.” “Do you want me to turn around and go home?” Nothing like a bunch of Senior Citizens reliving their childhoods.

Alice’s dolls are lucky TV doesn’t show parents pulling over to the side of the road and the kids getting spanked.

Alice does a nice little rant.

I did all those things, especially the last panel.

Kids at that age simply aren’t interested in anything that’s out of their reach, no matter how fascinating adults would find something in the passing scene. Which is just as well, because “interest” on the part of little children is another term for “curiosity”, so if Alice were to focus on something out of reach, there would be endless chatter of the “Who lives in that house? What is that cow doing? Who is that man? Why is that cow lying down?” and on and on.

BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiya Happyx3!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

As a father, I thoroughly enjoy pointing out all the boring things passing by.

i really miss this guy’s brilliantly depicted childhood views – never the expected – and yet somehow poignant – while still being funny

This was the brilliance of Richard Thompson’s writing—he never seemed to be working in the familiar, usable cliches that Alice prefers here, but instead found ways to make the mundane, realistic details of human behavior seem unexpected and funny.

I guess my husband and I were more like Alice’s parents… we didn’t have to threaten our boys, as we kept them busy with music and “I Spy” games when on road trips. I always got the impression that they liked the journey better than the destination. :D

Reality bites. Nara and Alice both have had a dose of it, but there’s way more to come….

If only Alice had control of the steering wheel in her daddy’s car…