Of course, the important question happens to be why Liz is there in the first place if there's a Halloween dance.
The answer bears a marked similarity:
to the stupid reason Connie left town:
There are twenty thousand people in Milboring but Connie convinced herself that everyone would be deriding Generic White Woman Wearing Eyeglasses. All the other kids are going to see is three Grade 10 kids being idiots but Liz absents her because of derision that doesn't exist. It's as if there's a family history of people reacting to implausible catastrophes:
based on an idiotic misreading of other people's motives and a rock-headed refusal to understand how little the people they see as condemning them matter.
If I had a dime for every strip featuring a parent looking into a room at a child, or walking into a room which already holds a child, as if being in a different room is the default situation for parents, I'd be very wealthy after thirty years of For Better or For Worse. If this strip has a running gag, it's "unsupervised kids do something, parent inquires or happens to notice what they are doing, parent is aghast or confused or both, lather, rinse, repeat."
"Elizabeth, Alexa just reminded me that I haven't asked you a question about your life this week. Here's one- 'aren't you going to the Halloween dance, and don't you have a costume?"
"Sigh. Maybe, and no."
"Maybe and no what? I forgot what I just asked you. See you next week."
This is because I would be rich if I were paid a nickel for every reminder that the doughy moron with the hobby job thought it is a humiliating defeat to be forced to be invested in her children's lives.
"Elizabeth, that talking clock you got me reminded me that I haven't talked to you today. I don't know why you bought it for me, there's already a clock on the wall, plus there's a sundial in the yard so I don't know why we even have a clock. You kids with your newfangled devices. Seem like a huge waste of time to me, like that computer thingee that can make a guy on a screen jump up and down. I don't know why we have electronic mail when stamps and paper are still a thing, and ink is so personal. Well, that's more than my quota of time spent talking to you, probably covers next week too."
This is a woman who thinks that her children believe her to be stupid, old and obsolete......and spends her every waking minute being all of those things.
Of course, the important question happens to be why Liz is there in the first place if there's a Halloween dance.
The answer bears a marked similarity:
to the stupid reason Connie left town:
There are twenty thousand people in Milboring but Connie convinced herself that everyone would be deriding Generic White Woman Wearing Eyeglasses. All the other kids are going to see is three Grade 10 kids being idiots but Liz absents her because of derision that doesn't exist. It's as if there's a family history of people reacting to implausible catastrophes:
based on an idiotic misreading of other people's motives and a rock-headed refusal to understand how little the people they see as condemning them matter.
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If I had a dime for every strip featuring a parent looking into a room at a child, or walking into a room which already holds a child, as if being in a different room is the default situation for parents, I'd be very wealthy after thirty years of For Better or For Worse. If this strip has a running gag, it's "unsupervised kids do something, parent inquires or happens to notice what they are doing, parent is aghast or confused or both, lather, rinse, repeat."
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All that idiot has ever heard coming out of her kids' mouths is AGLAGLAGLAGLA!
She doesn't want to really know much about what they do because the bonehead wants to show off about the big, important things she cares about.
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"Elizabeth, Alexa just reminded me that I haven't asked you a question about your life this week. Here's one- 'aren't you going to the Halloween dance, and don't you have a costume?"
"Sigh. Maybe, and no."
"Maybe and no what? I forgot what I just asked you. See you next week."
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This is because I would be rich if I were paid a nickel for every reminder that the doughy moron with the hobby job thought it is a humiliating defeat to be forced to be invested in her children's lives.
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Alexa is way too high tech for Elly.
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"Elizabeth, that talking clock you got me reminded me that I haven't talked to you today. I don't know why you bought it for me, there's already a clock on the wall, plus there's a sundial in the yard so I don't know why we even have a clock. You kids with your newfangled devices. Seem like a huge waste of time to me, like that computer thingee that can make a guy on a screen jump up and down. I don't know why we have electronic mail when stamps and paper are still a thing, and ink is so personal. Well, that's more than my quota of time spent talking to you, probably covers next week too."
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This is a woman who thinks that her children believe her to be stupid, old and obsolete......and spends her every waking minute being all of those things.
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