For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 03, 2020

below zero Celsius or below zero Fahrenheit?

Well, I survived the cold winter, one of Washington’s coldest winter of record, wearing just a jean jacket. Of course I wore sweaters and turtlenecks but did not wear a coat. It is really funny considering that I am a Phoenix native. I lived in D.C. for 6 years and became so acclimated to the cold winters there that I could wear just jean jacket. Looking back, I sometimes wondered “what the heck?” but well, I am still here and just fine. And looking at the present, I see people already switching to winter clothes in Phoenix simply because we’ve entered November. I am still wearing sleeveless shirts and shorts and sandals because it is still in 90s. I don’t care that it is November.

About 12 years ago, I wore shorts for 18 months straight. My boss made me buy a pair of jogging pants to wear over the shorts when I went outside.

She should remember her youth. Girls wore micro-mini dresses and go-go boots in just about any weather in the late 1960s. (I know, I was there and enjoyed the view.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fPkzJsMU8&list=RDm2fPkzJsMU8&start_radio=1

Your boss MADE you?

Is this the age she starts fussing about her hair? When I was ten I barely could be bothered to brush it – I had more interesting things to do.

Unless their going skiing, preteens and teens do not want to wear ski pants

Man, reading this, now I really wanna move to Florida.

It’s 62 right now.

My mom always made me wear a head scarf when it was the least bit cold or windy (we’re talking about in the 40’s and 50’s) and it seemed like I always had a cold. When I finally left home (nursing school, early 60’s) and I could do as I pleased when it came to what was on my head, I quit wearing any type of head gear and amazingly had very few colds. I occasionally wear a hoodie if the wind is cold and my ears are cold, but I don’t even own a head scarf any more.

eh. I went to a Catholic grade school and high school. No pants, just skirts. She’ll be fine.

Sounds like the strip where it was pouring out and Elly ordered Michael to put on his rain slicker. He dismissed that, and when she offered him an umbrella, he mocked it as looking British. “And no one wears rubber boots anymore!” he added.

The final panel shows Michael waiting at the bus stop, staring into space and drenched to the bone. Everyone else is wearing a rain coat, rubber boots, an umbrella, or some combination of the three.

Teens think they are immune to getting sick….until!

I froze in HS because there WERE no long skirts, and you wouldn’t be caught dead in snow pants.

A lot of middle school boys like to wear shorts all winter. Shows how tough they are.

Mom’s always suffer. I remember doing that and I never complained and yes I did get too cold.

Wish they would just leave the original copyright date on the strip. It helps to know when these were originally published.

That’s pretty much the way we were in the 60s and early 70s. Mini skirts, hot pants, and sizzlers (dresses that were so short the matching underwear that came with the dress showed) were what we wore while waiting for the bus in sub-freezing temperatures. Back then in PA, a school might get a 1 – 2-hour delay but was never cancelled because of cold temps or snow. You never knew if the buses were running late so you would walk to the bus stop anywhere up to a 1/4 mile from your home and stand and wait. Of course, you had to look cute for school so you froze your patootie off.

FORTUNATELY, when El says it’s “below zero” she means it’s only in the lower 30s or upper 20s in Fahrenheit.

She thinks it makes her look “HOT”…yet another life’s lesson to learn.

Elizbeth has a point.

Will Elizabeth be thinking about her hair when she gets admitted to the hospital for pneumonia?