For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 18, 2009

And here I thought it was just old age getting to me.

Oh Elly! That wasn’t very nice.

Mothers shouldn’t lie. However here is another case of “use it or lose it” that is true.

Oh, I say stuff like this to my kids, and they think it’s funny.

My mom and dad always did stuff like that to me as a kid. I’m fine! ;)

Or they will just get fat and weak, unless they have a really good metabolism, then they will just get weak.

my mom used to pull the old line that if i ate watermelon seeds one would grow in my stomach . haaaa it only looks like there’s one there

Oh heck I heard them all while I was growing up!! But it’s the only way parents get through to kids………

Alternatively, one could always choose simply to remove it from one’s subscription cache.

Oh stop reading if you don’t like it Chubsy. What an irrational grump you are.

Did they feel tingling on their legs?

That’s true! We have some rollypollies here, at work, that have gotten so big they no longer walk–they just use the scooters to get around. Someday they’ll have to be rolled from their desks to their cars parked right outside in the handicapped area.