February 10, 2020
Today’s “Hi and Lois” comic strip
annoyed me. Lois’s family is complaining that they’re almost out of clean
laundry. That includes her grown husband and teenage son, both of whom should easily be able to throw in a load or two.
At first I thought the writers
were just stuck in the past. Then I remembered that Ted Forth just made Hilary
shovel snow for the first time, and that while the mom in “Pajama Diaries” was often seen
holding baskets of laundry, her teenage children weren’t.
And then I remembered
the anecdotes I’m still hearing about college freshmen being confused when confronted with actual washing machines.
New theory: The cartoonists
should draw Lois giving a laundry demo. Even Dot and Ditto are old enough to
sort it.
Then all the other cartoon parents
should follow suit.
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