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WHEN ORDERING FROM A FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT, TRY TO DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT BEFORE YOU GET TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I figured since Dad reads the comics, I might as well write a few that were specifically targeted at him.

当你在快餐店点餐的时候，试着在你排到前面之前决定你想要什么。 我想既然爸爸看漫画，我不妨专门写一些针对他的。

AFTER YOU'RE DONE WITH YOUR SHOWER, PLEASE RINSE YOUR HAIR OFF THE SOAP! I would've written a bunch of comics last night, but Sweetie was driving me crazy and I couldn't concentrate. While I was drawing, the dog was sitting on my pillow licking his paws and his tail, and he was really getting into it. Whenever Sweetie does that, I have to remember to

洗完澡后，请把你的头发从肥皂上冲洗掉！昨晚我本想写一堆漫画的，但是小甜心快把我逼疯了，我无法集中注意力。 当我画画的时候，狗狗坐在我的枕头上舔它的爪子和尾巴，它真的很喜欢。 每次小甜心这么做，我都得记得

flip the pillow over when I go to bed. Last night I forgot, and when I lay down I put my head right on the wet spot. Speaking of licking, Sweetie finally kissed Dad last night. It's probably because Dad had potato chips on his breath, and I think dogs have an automatic response to that sort of thing. I didn't have the heart to tell Dad that Sweetie had just spent the past half hour on my pillow licking his rear end. Anyway, I'm hoping I can write a few more comics tonight, because I'm not gonna be able to get any work done tomorrow. Tomorrow's the Fourth of July, and Mom is making the whole family go to the town pool.

我睡觉的时候把枕头翻过来。 昨晚我忘了，当我躺下的时候，我把我的头正好放在湿的地方。 说到舔，昨晚小甜心终于吻了爸爸。 可能是因为爸爸嘴里有薯片的味道，我觉得狗狗对这种东西有一种自动反应。 我不忍心告诉爸爸，小甜心在我的枕头上花了半个小时舔他的屁股。 不管怎样，我希望今晚能多写几部漫画，因为明天我什么工作都做不完。 明天是独立日，妈妈要全家人去镇上的游泳池。

I tried to get out of it, mostly because I want to make it through the summer without having to walk past the shower guys. But I think Mom's still hoping to have one perfect family day this summer, so there's no use fighting it. Monday My Fourth of July started out pretty rough. When I got to the pool, I tried to get through the locker room as quickly as I could. But the shower guys were really chatty, and they didn't make it easy on me. nkledc. Then Mom told me she left her sunglasses out in the car, so I had to go BACK through the shower area to

我试着摆脱它，主要是因为我想度过这个夏天，而不必走过那些洗澡的人。 但我觉得妈妈还是希望今年夏天能有一个完美的家庭日，所以没必要纠结了。 星期一我的7月4日一开始很艰难。 当我到达游泳池时，我试图尽快穿过更衣室。 但是洗澡的人真的很健谈，他们让我很为难。 然后妈妈告诉我她把太阳镜落在车里了，所以我不得不穿过淋浴区回去

the parking lot. I wore Mom's sunglasses on the return trip to make it clear I wasn't interested in conversation, but that didn't work out so good, either. HEY, GREG, WHERE'D YOU GET THOSE COOL SHADES? Seriously, I wish those guys would just take a shower at home before they came to the pool. Because once you see somebody like that, you can never look at them the same way again.

停车场。回程时，我戴着妈妈的太阳镜，以表明我对谈话不感兴趣，但结果也不太好。 格雷格，你从哪弄来这么酷的墨镜？ 说真的，我真希望那些家伙来泳池前能先在家里洗个澡。 因为一旦你看到这样的人，你就再也不会以同样的眼光看待他们了。

After I got past the locker room, things didn't get a whole lot better. The scene was just about how I remembered it, except more crowded. I guess everyone had the same idea to spend the Fourth at the pool. The only time the pool cleared out was when the lifeguard called a fifteen-minute rest break and all

在我离开更衣室后，情况并没有好转。 这个场景和我记忆中的差不多，只是更拥挤了。 我猜大家都想在泳池里过独立日。 只有当救生员要求15分钟的休息时间时，游泳池才被清空