For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 16, 2023

She is hazardous to his sanity

The 1994 colourist coloured the stain on John’s shirt in the final panel. In 2023, John drinks transparent coffee.

John looks like a bum! Makes me wonder how “Aypo” was ever conceived!!

From Lynn’s Comments: It’s the little things—those goofy slip-ups in life that make a great Sunday page. Again, this really happened, and when it did…I couldn’t wait for it to appear in the paper!

Just wondering, either John actually sleeps in bed with his bathrobe on, or, how did a guy who can’t even see that a coffee cup is upside down, actually manage to put on and tie his bathrobe? I mean you have to stick your arms into narrow arm slots without seeing them!

You need to wake up before you have your coffee, but you need your coffee to wake up, but …

Stop the upside down storage of drinkware madness.

I’m nice to my caffein-addicted family members (my husband & older daughter). I have a cup set out – open side up – in front of the coffeemaker in the morning for each of them.

Just like the toilet seat, the ultimate resposibility for the position rests with the one who is about to use it…

That movie Arachnophobia changed the rules a bit. Still a great jump-scare of a horror movie after all these years.

That was a dirty trick.

You’re suppose to use your eyes, bozo! :D

Cups/glasses are always stored bottoms up so dust not get in them.

YOU have to turn them around, John.

Make a cup the night before and pop it in the microwave in the morning

I think it was a sudden decision when she swallowed a spider yesterday.

Walked into work cafe and followed the coffee stream to the coffee maker where no one put the pot under the brewer.

But it woke him up.

Our coffee maker makes that exact same sound!

Comics constantly show people, usually men, unable to function even to the level of knowing how to use a coffee cup. Are people with this low level of pre-coffee motor skills actually real?

I think I’ll have a nice cup of coffee now.

There’s another way to store them in a cupboard?

Never heard of the ‘Coffee Whiz’ coffee maker… Must be a Canadian brand.

Hes awake NOW!

O heavens! To have thought of that one means it must have happened in Real Life. Pour John! :-)

That’s a real waker upper…

Must have been a quick trip to the college. Or did John leave Michael to stay while he headed home?

it’s not part of her job description!

He could do the dishes himself and put them away. Learn to look first if you are lucky enough to have them clean and put away for you.

The danger of needing coffee to wake up. It is better to be able to wake, just so you can drink coffee.

John, the revenge is easy, leave the seat up from now on. Elle will get the hint.

Coulda been worse. John coulda married Andi Fox!

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Right… blame the woman. You won’t make that mistake again will you John?

Tomorrow morning he turns his cup over not realizing Ellie felt bad and put them in right side up! Ha!

No need for caffeine today.

I’m trying not to break my arm patting myself on the back for never being so out of it, even when I’ve just woken up, that I’ve ever done anything like that.

Lovin the details, like how John is scratching his rear. Talk about the devil in the de tails!

No worries, turn the coffee pot upside down, too.

OMG…. Ladies and gentlemen, a dentist…

Most mugs, cups and glasses are not the same between top and bottom. He should have been able to tell by feel of the handle alone that something had changed.

That’s the smarter way to store them. Keeps them cleaner.

Elly: I’ve told you five times! Weren’t you paying attention? Ugh, you’re just as bad as the kids! Of course, it’s clear where they got it from.