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Randie isn’t a kid person. She’s not terribly fond of kidlets. Usually they are doing something to annoy her. Here we see a non-annoying child interacting with a kid-a-phobe… and it seems to be working out alright for the both of them. AIL. Three sizes… maybe four.
awwww
Nooo! Randie, it’s a trap!! RUN!
Actually, I like kids, but the bad ones are some of the best arguments for never having kids, ever.
Any kids that I should ever raise would be warped for life with things like stuffed Cthulhu toys and a crib mobile featuring polyhedral dice….
The Auld Grump, the baby falling asleep, looking at floating dice while the music box plays March of Cambreadth…. It’s just so… Disney! Black Cauldron and Dragonslayer Disney, but Disney….
You think the age of “Terrible Two” is behind you forever, and all will be well… But then the child turns 14, and it starts all over again.
How can you NOT love Randie’s face in the last panel?
Awwwwww…. they are so cute when they are nice…
I loved that. We had a young man who came in every few months with his mom to buy comics. The mom wasn’t nice or not nice; she was just being a mom, doing something for her boy that she wasn’t interested in too much.
One day they came in and he was asking me a ton of questions about various comics so he could buy the EXACT ones he wanted with his limited funds.
Suddenly a business man comes up and interrupts him and asks a question that’ll take a couple minutes to answer. I turn to him and say, “If you’re willing to wait a few minutes, sir, I talking to this customer right now” and went back to my conversation with the boy.
The man was a little put off and (I think) he just left without buying anything, so I lost a potential sale. Didn’t matter; I treat all my customers with the same respect. The mom saw that and thanked me for my treating her son the way I did.
The boy continued coming in every few months, but the mom was now happy to bring him and he always seemed to buy more after that.
This is also based on some real life… those dang little kids melting my heart! Dang it! Stop it. Stop being friggin’ adorable. I want to be callous and unfeeling!
All funny aside. Kids are so impressionable… if you treat them with respect and love, they will mirror this behavior. That’s what we want more of in this world… respect and love.