Scream! Chortle! Chuckle! Scream! My husband is yelling from the bathroom, "What are you laughing at?" and I'm like, "Kevin! He's killing me!" This is EXACTLY how it feels when they won't cool out! PERFECT!!!! The parental pain is fucking cosmic, right?
Thanks Jen! Yeah, trying to sleep train them is brutal. We've got her to where she only fusses for a few minutes at most, but it still seems like hours from my point of view.
I'm so glad you found it funny. This was always one of my favorite scripts, but when it's time to post the strip I always suffer an attack of, "this isn't funny, what was I thinking?"
Ha, I can see how you got "Terminator" from that. But I was actually going for Mel in "The Road Warrior". Perhaps this is a sign that my cultural references are a bit out-of-date. 25 years ago, that joke would have knocked 'em dead, I tell ya!
It's yours, whenever I get round to it. Thanks for the kind words, and I'm SO relieved to hear that the joke paid off for you. It makes me all kinds of happy!
wish I could say you deserve it for the way you were, but you were exceptionally mellow. It's worth adding, however, that she's never like that when we're sitting her. We just use the same scare tactics we used on you--the bloodstained baseball bat.
09:29pm / Nov 14, 2009