Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 03, 2013

Geesh, just go back inside and ask to use the store phone!

Oh wait! Is that Tony Perkins behind the counter with that eerie looking house up on the hill?

The last time I saw a real live pay phone was 1998

If you’ve noticed, the pay phone has been sabotaged….or simply disconnected due to lack of public use. Right now, Bernice and Delta are exceedingly vulnerable to criminals. It matters not about the whys and wherefores. They should always have a backup plan for such situations. They should at least have a shrill whistle to attract attention to themselves should anyone nearby get obnoxious or suspicious.

From perspective’s glance, that’s a long, lonesome, uncertain mile to the phone….

LOL

Quit panicking, girls! Panicking solves nothing.

Not to mention that cord’s frayed!

Good one!

That’s the spin off… 902…whatever code Pitts is in….

Yeah, I know… several comments popped in before I could finish “announcing the sponsors”… and finish my comments….

That is so true. People are especially prone to making this mistake when they’re young and going out on their own for the first time. They’re so giddy with the excitement of finally having a taste of independence that they completely forget that that independence comes with a certain amount of responsibility. A classic example is that of a teen wanting a car so badly that they don’t even think about all the costs and responsibilities that go into having one.

They will eventually call AAA or a locksmith. It will be a young, good looking guy. The girls will go GA GA over him and then ? ? ? ?

“End of Drama.” Heh. I think Greg has something up his Speedball that will make “Comedy of Errors” look like a visit to a morgue.

In agreement with you and kfccanada, This is time to keep your head on a swivel, and notice EVERYTHING around you… and it doesn’t hurt for them to hold their keys in their hand “Wolverine style”… of course, prevention was in order, here… as in keeping a charged phone… and in all seriousness, a whistle… hopefully she and Delta will use the “Buddy System” effectively to watch each other’s backs, literally AND figuratively, by looking around in each direction in a teamwork sort of way, and not letting each out of the other’s sight….

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This is going to get worse before it gets better.

“For some reason” hmm… maybe because it’s a family strip that is meant to be comedic satire about the life of an AVERAGE teen. Obviously Mr. Fogarty won’t be unmasked as a porn star.

Yes, call triple A. They will dispatch your call to the nearest subscribing service station or garage. -Could be Click & Clack. Could be Bates Full Service Motel and Auto Plaza.

They just bought lunch in the store and now they’re stranded at the gas pumps at night?

I carry a spare key to my car in my billfold; this ensures that if I should ever lock my keys in the car, I can still get in. I also carry a spare house key there, too.

what should they do ?

Just shows you, teens without their cellphones are completely lost. And yes, Delta, WHY would you leave your purse in an unattended car?!?

and suddenly it’s dark outside!

Why would you leave your keys in the car when you know you are going into the store?

You walk into the store, you tell them what’s going on, they call their guy and he slim-jims your car door. From the time he pulls into their driveway till the time he leaves takes less than 30 seconds. I’ve seen it done for myself. It wasn’t even terribly expensive.

Welllllllllll, its Too Bad, You Snooty Broads didn’t bring “Luann the Drama Queen” along.

She ALWAYS has HER Phone Handy and Fully Charged, even when going to the john.

…..,Of Course, You’d have to WAIT Her to finish talking to Her Imaginary Boyfriend, but STILL….,

A weak comedy of errors. I guess it will do. Pay phone? Really? Broken metal cord? Really? And the handset still in existence and hung up nicely? Really?

And the whole key thing. As if.

They just need to go inside and use the phone. They call mommy or daddy and the solution gets mobilized.

Plot contrivances must occur I guess. How else can we have fun?

Puddles becoming like “Ol’ Yeller”

what the…..do you ever read a comic strip for the sake of reading a comic strip?

Surprise!

O_o

Perhaps this will result in a divide between Delta and Bernice. It happened to me; two of my best friends stopped talking to each other one day…not clue why and just made my first week away from home by myself to camp hell.

I never see phone booths anymore. I think they’ve all been converted into espresso stands, like the old Fotomat booths.

you’re missing the point, comics are meant to take us away from the everyday realities of the world. they are suppose to make us smile, chuckle and laugh.

Whew! Karma is really having a good time with the girls! Keys locked in the car, dead cell phone, live cell phone locked in the car, damaged pay phone!! Let’s see what else she can think of next!! :-)

1) How did it get to be night so fast?2) Before wandering off, notify the clerk.3) What, drama without Luann???

Feye, what creative ideas! How about your starting a spin-off comic— “Social Luann”?

you really expect me to believe that not one but two girls got out of a car without a phone in their hand?

Hot policeman ought to be coming along any minute now

Good God Feye…this is a COMIC strip…supposed to be FUNNY!!!

This is the time for Mighty Mouse to save the day!Have no fear . . . Our hero drives up in two more episodes.TAA-DAA . . . .

OMG… theyre going to have to call Luann! FCOL… chah!

OMG, the drama……the excitement…..will they find a working phone…….will they, gasp, actually be able to get back in their car? They should’ve brought Luann, indeed….I’m sure her phone never leaves her ear and is always working, ha ha

It looks like the cord has been sawed in half :(

Let me guess, Bernice is “book smart” but dumb as a rock otherwise and Delta ain’t that great a help either. Am I right or am I missing something?

This is where they could have used Luann on the trip to send the DRAMA over the edge.

Nobody can say anything because I bet just about everyone has been in that situation before.

The phone cord may have been merely vandalized, not sabotaged. I’ve seen examples. The phone itself might still be working, in which case the girls could at least try dialing 911. If they get a dead air call, they’d eventually be able to trace the location and send help. Makes sense to simply ask to use the store’s phone first. Maybe a clueless clerk will tell them at it’s against store policy since there’s a pay phone out front. The girls will argue that the phone’s broken, to no avail.

Public Service Announcement— secrete an extra key somewhere on your car, just in case. I learned this lesson after having to wake my wife up at 2am to come pick me up from work, and I have a 60 mile commute. I take a spare key to the back of my license plate— a quarter works as a screwdriver in case I need to get at the key.

Correction— I TAPE a spare key to the back of my license plate.

And if they’re busy, SuperChicken won’t have any choice. but to help! He knew this job was dangerous, before he took it!

This is Luann, not Funky Winkerbean

I called it “Bates’ Inconvenient Store” with “Fool’s Gold” gas….

Zzzzzzz

Depends on what happens next.

Hexaco is good if it’s generic bad thingsIf they get murdered, it’s BatesIf the gas plugs their pipes, it’s Discount.

Here’s my suggestion for how to end this arc: Delta and Bernice are yelling at each other when they see that the pay phone has been vandalized when a really nice looking guy pulls into the station in a van and offers them a ride. Since Bernice is desperate to get to her interview, she talks Delta into it. The next panel shows the interview group looking at their watches, hours later, and deciding that Bernice is a no-show who didn’t have the courtesy to call and reschedule. The following panel shows Nancy on the phone, apparently talking to Bernice’s mother and explaining that Luann is with Toni and doesn’t know where Bernice is. Drama! Stay tuned.

This is the most unrealistic thing I’ve ever seen. Dead phone? Smart girl like her not charging it before a road trip? Leaving keys in the car? Smart girl like her leaving her car vulnerable to thieves? A phone with a cut wire? No store phone? They just came out of the store!

Highly intelligent people are often absent-minded. Makes sense to me, especially when Bernice has so many other things on her mind.

Kismet

End of drama? In Luann? On a Thursday?!

“Why can’t they ultimately just break a window?”_______________________________________

Why BOTHER?.

The car windows are already rolled DOWN, but in Their PANIC, the Gals haven’t NOTICED that yet.

…..,I THINK……,

Ditto, Levi! Said WAY better than I could have!!

Maybe the Evanses can bring McGyver in for this one….Doors unlocked, Phone calls set, bathrooms even get cleaned…. well, I don’t know if Mac can handle a Gas station situation like that…..

Let’s stop with the quarter-page comments. Extremely boring.

Yeah, 1 second, and the whole strip will explode!!!!! --Not to mention if somehow both he and his “father” both get called to the scene… Bern won’t wanna hear the word drama… ever… again….

Contrived drama from two characters that have no meaning or relevance. Is it next week yet?

Explosive mystery solved!

Hey, Vicky, hand me that… BOOM! (MAC GRUBER!!!!!)

So…how long is THIS going to continue?

I know this has nothing to do with particular strip, but does anyone know why the Sunday pages from November 22 to tne end of December,2009 are missing? I think one of them is the page where Brad makes up his impromptu “Toni-spumoni” poem.

I think they might’ve used it because it is a logo that most people would still recognize, without having to come up with a name to it ….-———And since the break up into the smaller companies, the logo still pops up here and there, like here on the East Coast, in our area the logo is under Verizon…. I think it’s that way for Bell South/AT&T South, too….

At least they have drinks and paper towels.

She paid inside so there must be an attendant, probably a phone and a place to wait. I used to do this a lot and sometimes a security person would jimmy the lock for me. But most adopted a policy to not do that and newer cars are harder to do that way. Using your key to lock it helps prevent that.

Yeah, but I was going on the supposition of waiting awhile, but I forget it might not be that long of a wait, in Luanniverse time…. maybe…. we’ll find out @ 1 (E.D.T.)….

“Out here on the Left Coast, most everything has AT&T’s “Death Star” logo on it.”

Yeah, I’ve heard it referred to as that…. Hoot and a half, if you ask me, cuz it was the “evil empire" to everyone… -———I know the “Baby Bell” companies don’t use the Bell logo for the corporate logo anymore, but they still have ’em in use on the payphones and some of the trucks, etc. around here….

And over here, our landline phones became Verizon, and with the shift from landline to cell for many people, AT&T just became “another cell phone company” to them…

For just such a situation I have car key duct taped up under my bumper. Last time I had to use it I was on a road trip and it took a few minutes to find it but I was able to get back into the car

its only a cartoon good one at thatand educational to all who drive

Bernice ..Delta..did you ever see that movie“I Know What You Did Last Summer?”

. . . This is the kind of strip kids read at the breakfast table, dude.

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In all seriousness, though, sharp senses are just as powerful as self defenses…..

What’s with Bernice’s eyes in the last panel?

…and so we wont get her silhouette mixed up with Delta’s… ha ha!

I bet Luann would have her cell phone handy and charged.

A Payphone? And it’s been vandalized. What a novel concept. You do still see some, and they occasionally work.