FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 10, 2022

oh, the horror

Paige should be cleaning the mirror

She’s scary enough without the pimples.

I want you and other girls in school will notice it

Andy… you should have wait for her to “take care” of this pimple, then make HER clean her mess. Yuck!

I think the one good thing about hitting 50, my acne finally cleared up. Replaced with wrinkles, but cleared up.

Ah, to be a teenager again. My skin cleared up the summer after high school. I was on the wheat harvest and worked outside .

Or don’t use so darn much toothpaste!

When the biggest problems in life were pimples and whether you had a date for the weekend.

The horrors of hormones.

Did you ever have to sneeze while brushing your teeth or gargling?

Picture day?

At least she didn’t have a mouthful of peas at dinnertime when she noticed her zits

I was a real pimple popper at that age.

Acne doesn’t believe in convenient timing.

You can’t really “notice” something on a schedule. “I noticed three things before noon” doesn’t compute.

Paige is too shocked.

This makes me think of a feature in an issue in MAD magazine, probably from back in the 1970’s if not earlier. It was “You know you’re a parent when…” and one of the panels stated “… you discover that you have been brushing your teeth with pimple cream.” My initial thought in seeing Paige’s activity here was that she was doing that very thing.