Edits to errors in my previous post (caused by connection problems): random characters should read !$%*!$%*!$%*!$%* last sentence should read "honor and dignity".

I have seen myself in this comic strip, but never more so than the strips that involve sailboats. My husband and I bought a sailboat for our honeymoon (25 years, two weeks and four days ago, but who's counting). HE loved it. So did I, as long as it was attached to the dock. Sold it. Then . . . he started in again. Arlo all over. Bought another one. Bigger. Arlo has got to understand that time and commitments get in the way of spending time on it. He has also got to understand that when the say a sailboat is nothing more than a hole in the water that you throw money (and cell phones, and glasses, and GPSs, and handheld marine radios) into, that is the absolute truth. Janis needs to take up a hobby that is addictive and expensive. I'd recommend knitting! And, she should collect more yarn than she'll be able to knit in her lifetime!

That last panel is priceless! I'm not a boat person either so that would be my response. Although growing up I did have a short lived fantasy about living on a houseboat. Then I was actually on one and decided it wasn't for me. Besides, I get seasick just looking at one. So it worked out really well when I was in the Navy. Luckily I spent 99.9% of my time on shore. I had a bad reaction a few years back when my then boyfriend took me out in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego. I was so violently ill from being in the 17' boat I was lying on the bottom of the boat with a blanket over me. I lifted my head up for a minute and he asks "Would you like a peanut butter & honey sandwich" and the imagery sent me to the side of the boat and then......well....you get the picture. So I don't like boats!

I get those now and then too. They've never gotten me to buy a schooner though. :)