For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 15, 2010

Yup, with your eyes bugged out!

Oh John! Relax and go sleeping tighter!

That’s how my Father was and still is. When he gave her a cell phone one Christmas, she told him she didn’t want it. She kept it, but he calls her all day long on every phone, which was why she didn’t want it.

I have a feeling John would be calling her every few minutes, if Elly had a cell phone. He’d have told her to come home by now too.

My Father wouldn’t go to bed until we came home either. He waited up for us. He wanted to make sure we were ok.

Below the snit, there’s abandonment anxiety. John is not a guy who’s deeply in touch with himself.

Maybe he’s just worried about her. He’s used to her always being there, and he’s a bit jealous too.

Don’t worry John, once she opens her mouth and gets going, nobody else would want to keep her. She’ll be back.

(I’m joking. Calm down.)

Yea, my oldest son once said man mom if you have another week like this one, you’ll be needing me to take you out for a drink. My now x about had a heart attack and wanted to kill his son.. But it was fine when he would meet his dad after work.

Wow, chill out, John…

John should try switching to decafe…

I can go to sleep if my wife’s not home, but the dog and cat go nuts if it’s bedtime and the head count is short.

“…and sleep”

very subtle way of saying what they would be doing there if Ellie was at home!

My parents went to sleep even though two or three of us were out. We were to let them know when we got home. I would always wake mom up but she often did not remember. Dad did not wake up–all those years of working nights sleeping days with 8+ kids running around. I think they went to sleep because the youngest were finally sleeping through the night and they just could not stay awake anymore. They knew to sleep when they could.

howtheduck:

I love it!!!!! Thanks for the biggest laugh I’ll probably have all day!!!!!!!!!!

Funny how he calls her “The wife” in his thoughts.

gene2u: that’s one of the ways you can tell the strip is written by a woman with hubby issues.

And just what is that thing wiggling around in the back of his pants? Wierd!

nice john….. good luck with sleeping

where is today’s edition?

rip off, last I checked it’s Sunday. This is yesterday’s

Bye bye jordan, you’ve been flagged.

Here’s today’s strip, on the FBOFW website: http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/004459.php

Are we to lose Elly and John too? Bad enough Annie’s going away!

Thanks Funky Munkey1.

Re: Sunday’s strip from the link- Wooooooooooohoooo, is John in for it for that one. He won’t even know what he’s paying for as she takes it out on him in little ways, for weeks, as the insult festers in her thoughts.

Don’t we all have days like that? Most all of mine are.

This comment is for Sunday’s comic that’s missing:

John needs to follow Elly around on a day like the one she just had and see if he still thinks that his receptionist is the most organized woman he’s ever met in his life!!!!! He’d see a whole different side of his wife and be completely in awe of her!

The Sunday comic just shows how little married folks know about each other’s day – and, as usual, it demeans the care of children that is usually “women’s work.”

Hey, how come I Saturdays comic and it is Monday!? I call this a failure to update.