Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 20, 2024

Welcome to life.

I wonder if Stephan is making a family comment..

If he wanted to return Junior, why didn’t he go to the hospital?

LOL. Gotta love dem crocs.

Junior is much smarter than dad. He might need that boy when he gets older.

Many UNhappy returns?

Just take away his phone.

Since he doesn’t return texts, take his phone away. If he gripes too much about that, just eat him.

Sorry Larry, no deposit, no returns!

What would he respond to? Whatapps? iMessages? Tweets? Toots? Belches?

I’m curious what kind of store Larry is trying to ‘return’ him to.

Stoopid croc. He shoulda return to the stork.

In my experience, the kids are more often upset when parents don’t respond immediately to texts.

Croc Power !

I’ll admit, I’m somewhat guilty of this. I’m so busy with work (in some cases, ending my shift around midnight) that I forget to text home to let them know I’m on my way. It’s not whether I care enough, but that I am so focused on what I do, I just forgot. That, and I’m busy driving home.

Yeah. Yep. … Well, we have this one who will not stop. The youngest.

With mine, it didn’t get any better with age

Never mind children, many adults don’t respond either.

More crocs!

Junior, respond to his texts! He loves you! Reply to him, darn it!

Those crocs always make me laugh.

OMGosh! The Count and Larry are Simpatico!

Response is never guaranteed

You don’t do that to your children. You love and cherish them.

He went to the IRS hoping for a text return.

He might have better luck on Ebay

Junior does not look happy

heavy lifting between frame one and two

it used to be “you never write”… then it moved on to “you never call”… then, “you never email”… now it’s “you never text”… can’t get much easier than that!

A hairy reptile … reminds me of science combining an abalone with a crocodile … a crock of baloney.

When did Larry learn to text?

Oh yours too?

Did you save his egg shell ? Returns require the original packaging.

Huh. Usually Walmart is pretty good about returning Croc’s®.

Love the crocs!

Yeah! Any day with Crocs is a good day. Unless you are a Zeeba of course.

Pro Tip: There’s an unused feature on phones where you can actually talk in real time with a person. What would take an hour of text messages can be exchanged with this feature in only a matter of minutes.

Larry needs to check out todays Kliban, if he still wants to make a return.

I’m sure I gave several desires to return me, to my parents. Good thing there wasn’t ebay, no telling where I would have ended up.

Well, isn’t he in college?

CROCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Crocs please!!!!!