engineer

A four-panel comic. In the first panel a glum dark-haired man tells a red-haired woman, "I don't want Davey to become an engineer like me," and she asks, "Why?" In the second panel he explains, "Too much drudgery. Too much working on other people's dreams. Wish I'd been a poet." In the third panel the woman says, "I understand, but how can you stop him if it's his calling?" and he replies darkly, "I have my ways." In the fourth panel the man points sternly at a worried young red-haired boy and says, "What's the matter, boy? Remember: lefty latchy, righty removey" -- deliberately teaching the engineering mnemonic 'lefty loosey, righty tighty' wrong so the child will fail at it. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the boy's anxious face as the father's speech bubble continues quizzing him: "And do you know about PEMDAS?", implying he is being fed misinformation about that too.