For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 14, 2017

A trousers zipper obliviously unzipped is serious business.

Typical man. What is the first thing he thinks about when he sees girls whispering and giggling about him?

And they call it puppy love…

Lighten up, Michael. How do you know for sure they’re even whispering about you?

Michael, at that age it’s a good sign – just try to relax & be yourself.

I remember those days.

Consider yourself lucky, Michael, most of the time, I couldn’t get that much out when talking to ‘A GIRL’ !! ! !

Girls will do that, Michael, just as boys talk about girls.

I could live with the whispering, its the giggling that really gets me!

At least Michael no longer has that widow’s peak like he has in past strips. That would have made him stick out like a sore thumb.

Little girls have just as much trouble talking to boys as boys have talking to girls. That will pass.

Young love. Sweet.

When male misery enters the picture: When the opposite gender begins the transition from girl to woman. After that, all is lost………… logic and common sense become extinct.

To quote Ron Weasley, “Why do they always travel in packs?”

Whatever this “common sense” is. Whatever it means it is used to imply a variety of things. Some of them mutually exclusive.