Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 21, 2015
July 20, 2015
July 22, 2015
Transcript:
Phoebe: Dad, I haven't started my summer reading yet. Maybe I would've started sooner if you'd just BUGGED me more. Dad: I could have, but I'm trying to teach you responsibility. Phoebe: That's what you always say when you don't want to do anything. Dad: I'm not saying it isn't convenient.
Oh dear, Dana! Did you see the story about the 22-year-old who blew through her grandmother’s bequest of $90k for her college education in three years, and then called into a radio station to ask what she should do, and proceeded to complain on air that it was her parent’s fault for “they never, like, sat down, and had a really SERIOUS discussion about money. How am I supposed to know?” And on and on and on…. And said her father was rude when “he, like, chuckled, when I told him I had no money for my next semester” and that it “is like, not true that he has no money ’cuz I KNOW he has a retirement fund.” I have a feeling she was working up to a crowd-funding idea coming from the radio hosts. They never got anywhere near it. And today’s strip is exactly how that starts. Except Phoebe’s parents will never let her go that far.