Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 13, 2021

What’s life if you can’t annoy an adult?

Being annoying is his mission statement in this strip.

He’s cruisin’ for a bruisin’!

But being annoying on purpose is different from arguing for the sake of an argument?

Didn’t they clean out her supply last year with the Mega-Sale?

End game beats me today. ???

“Honing” in was hard enough, but at least it makes a kind of sense if I think about it long enough. Now with the “phoning” in?

I remember working out how to make the chalk make that high pitched squeal so that the teacher would be less likely to call on me to write on the board.

I also remember going to school to help out with my granddaughter and not seeing a piece of chalk or a chalkboard anywhere. So where is this, 1983?

I don’t see how it matters how many different coffee mugs she uses. In my experience they accumulate depending on how many worthy causes one gives to or how many friends one has who can’t think of a better gift. I have two dozen in a box in my basement that I’ll be happy to hand over to anyone who needs a few.

Now, how many mugfuls per day she drinks may be a valid cause for concern.

This is one of those strips where Caulfield’s devotees see that the excuse of “He’s just a misunderstood, bored, precocious prodigy that isn’t being challenged enough” doesn’t cover his cheerful admission that he does things intentionally to upset his teacher, so needs to be upgraded to “its just a comic strip, don’t take it too seriously” mode.

I just reused the same mug. The build up inside it enhanced the flavor.