Comic #3289: 2014-05-20

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Panel 1: Person A: "If you could change anything about how we parent the kids, what would it be?" Person B: "Oh, that’s easy. I would’ve done all the diapers."

Panel 2: Person A: "Why?" Person B: "Diaper's got the best chore score! Chores have two qualities: E is level of easiness, P is level of perceived difficulty. If you put that on a scale of 1 to 10, the perfect score is E:P = 100."

Panel 3: Person B: "I had it to do over, I would’ve called doing diapers. It’s the easiest thing about parenting, and everyone thinks it’s the hardest. While your spouse is diaper-naïve, it has a chore cross section of 100!"

Panel 4: Person B: "But, once the diaper-naïve spouse does a diaper, E falls to 1, making the cross section E = 10."

Panel 5: Person B: "So yeah, if I could have it over again, I’d have done all the diapers and told you how gross and terrible it was, and you’d have been none the wiser. Wow! What a life it could’ve been."

Panel 6: Person A: "I was hoping we’d have a moment there." Person B: "You didn’t?"

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