Notes: Given how well they reacted to the previous strip, I had to do a follow up just to get my parents' collective goat. For some reason they weren't nearly as put out by this one. Probably because they never asked me to do things like paint or fix the plumbing, they were better able to see the whole thing as a snippet of fiction. Still, I think that it's probably for the best that "mom and dad" didn't show up again in this incarnation of the strip. (Although they did pop up briefly in my proposal for English In Action, a comic about teaching in Japan.)