For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 19, 2022

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    Just on what has Michael been spending his grocery store pay cheque all this time?

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    red_tape  over 2 years ago

    Missed your chance to grab the keys back, Dad.

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    capricorn9th  over 2 years ago

    Geez, John, if he has done this before, I think you’d wise up and hold the keys, have him give you the cash before turning over the key. If he says he doesn’t have the cash, put the keys back in your pocket.

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    dcdete.  over 2 years ago

    Panel 1, a question for science experts. If you loosely hold a board like that in one hand and you try to pry a nail that is stubbornly stuck in the board with a claw hammer, what is likely to happen? Will the board swing up and smash the father in the face?

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    Susan00100  over 2 years ago

    It seems "de rigeur " for cartoonists to depict teenagers as lazy and selfish.

    Not all are, y’know!!

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    littlejohn Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Just feed Michael a large bowl of beans. That will fill him up with a lot of gas. And then he could go and have a rooting-tooting night out on the town with all those beans in him.

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    bittenbyknittin  over 2 years ago

    My neighbor deliberately kept his gas tank on empty so his teenage son wouldn’t use it.

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    ppatches  over 2 years ago

    Watch him run out of gas!

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    Gen.Flashman  over 2 years ago

    Unreasonable request, the station wagon likely has a 20 gallon tank so if it is 1/2 full that would be 10 gallons at say $1.25 gallon which would be about $25 in 2022 $. Why would dad have the keys in the pocket of his work jeans?

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    Prey  over 2 years ago

    I never got to drive my dads car, I left home before I was old enough to drive.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Sure, but you can’t have the car next time until you fill ’er up from last time.

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    USN1977  over 2 years ago

    Michael is to gasoline what Wimpy is to hamburgers.

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    John Jorgensen  over 2 years ago

    Remember Mike, with a tank of gas you get a discount at the car wash. . . .

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    Johnnyrico  over 2 years ago

    F-L-I-T-H-E-A-D

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    I think Mike will stick to sponging in the driveway from now on.

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    cmxx  over 2 years ago

    Same old problem: no spine.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Michael is a fast talker with a quick exit.

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    Daltongang Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Typical Teenager, nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

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    kamoolah  over 2 years ago

    This is the time of Bidenflation and Trudeaunomics.

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    JanLC  over 2 years ago

    “Michael, NO” “Get your a$$ back here NOW.” Simple really, John. You ought to try it.

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    meowlin  over 2 years ago

    And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon

    Little boy blue and the man in the moon…

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    bwswolf  over 2 years ago

    I know the feeling, I had friends that would borrow pickups and they never seemed to be able to stop and fill the gas tank ….. the worst of it was I had accounts at all the local gas stations ….. all they had to do was stop and gas them up on my account …. :(

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    comic4matt  over 2 years ago

    But how do you expect a teen to have a 100 bucks to fill a tank?

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