The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for June 07, 2024

There’s a severe learning curve here…

And that’s a fact…

In fact, don’t even put it in your comics!

The two unwritten rules of life:

1.

2,

First rule of life club, don’t talk about it

It may be more like the myth of life. At the least, seems malleable.

Many have had to learn the facts of life on their own.

Many have “learned” the facts of life from people who don’t know the facts of life themselves.

Well, we can try to tell our youngsters the facts of life and lessons from the school of hard knocks but they don’t like to listen.

Was on big trip a couple years back. My youngest (about 8 then) kept wanting to touch the hot waffle maker handles at the hotel and I kept reminding them that it’s hot and they’ll get burned. Well about the 23rd time after telling them and them not listening they grabbed that hot handle and received a burn to the palm of the hand. First words out of my mouth (I’m a dad so it’s a given) were something like “that is what you get for not listening. Are you OK”. Take guess how many hot items they have touched since.

I served another Marine that kept visiting the employees of cat houses and got “his bore punched” a few times for STD testing. He obviously didn’t learn to wrap it up from health class, or even after the first time.

As for my children, after 28+ years in medicine, I just tell them stories of things I’ve seen and treated after other guys went dipping their wicks in every knothole in a fence. I also have a clinical book that has chapter after chapter of photos of STDs and their effects on the body. I’ll scare them straight.

Yeah, he hated that show.

Well let me tell you about the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees……………..

uh…go ask yer mother…

I’ll I know is how to wear these oh-so-fashionable slacks. I’ve never had them off and you’re adopted. :)

You’ll have to attend the school of hard knocks to learn the facts of life.

“Fact number two: you’re not my son.”