Millie presents: ways to get out of doing work.
Originally published 7 January 1999

Mr. Larnblatt, the music teacher, is a character I wish I could write for more often. Mostly he doesn't show up a lot because I don't have all that much for him to say. But visually he's great. He's a lot of fun to draw. And I like how he couldn't possibly hold that baton with the hooves he seems to have for hands.

Millie, in this strip, is exercising a principle I've actually used--most of the time people aren't invested enough to pry, if you give a nonsensical answer but act as if it's perfectly ordinary. This observation, incidentally, is also made by Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In the Rye.

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