FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 28, 2009

A recurring nightmare, not having apaper done or going to take a final when I never went to class. This is too painful to read, LOL.

These days, though, it would be easy to just carry an extra copy on a thumbdrive and re-print it out at the school library

Paige was prepared in the first place?

I often managed to spill stuff on my papers right before school or just before the class. And it would always be a the most inconvenient times. I should have learned to take it on disc with me so i could print out another copy at school if i messed up the printed one. I got jelly on one eating breakfast and re-reading through the paper. I had a soda leak in my back pack and soak a paper.

The question has to be raised again, hasn’t Paige heard of a stapler?

Paige may have heard of staplers and CDs, but Bill Amend didn’t give her any, poor kid. The evil that cartoonists do lives on after them…lol

Man, my teachers would kill me if i brought in a essay without stapling it together.

I had a number of teachers that wouldn’t allow papers to be stapled together. They hated having all the staples get tangled together when the papers were all stacked and the pile of papers wouldn’t sit flat (bulged at the stapled corner).

These days, my son (Freshman in High School) just submits his papers to a shared GoogleDocs folder so the teacher and read it online. And he complains at how much of a hassle that is.

Used to be we’d laugh at all the older folks’ stories of walking 7 miles to school uphill both ways. Now our kids laugh at our stories of having to completely retype a paper because it fell in the sink or we found a typo half way through and couldn’t find any White-out. Heck my kids don’t even know what White-out is.

Is there a dust devil on the playground or something?