The Blondie comic strip, shown above, was first published in 1946. Way back then, I was three years old. Chic Young, the artist who drew the strip, titled this comic, "Lazy Man's Load." If you click that link to the title, that should take you to a website where you will be able to expand the image substantially, which will let you see it better. Then you will see just how big a load Dagwood was trying to cart into the kitchen, after dinner.
For many of us, our fathers have had a truly formative influence on the people we have become. That has certainly been true for me, as I have revealed in these blog postings before. Philips Bowerman Patton, my Dad, isn't named as one of my "Five Guys" for nothing!
Lots of little things that a father says may come back, like a reminder, many years later. Just recently, I remembered my father warning me not to try to carry a "Lazy Man's Load."
My Dad may have learned the expression from the Blondie comic strip, for all I know. The Internet reference I checked, and linked above, indicates that the expression "dates from the turn of the twentieth century and may be dying out."
Well, it hasn't died out quite yet! Here it is, twenty-five years past the turn of the twenty-first century, and I'm still keeping that warning in mind.
It's Father's Day. My Dad, consistently, gave me good advice. Let me pass on this advisory, on the topic of the "Lazy Man's Load." It's good advice from my Dad - and it's a nice day to pass it along!
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