For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 18, 2024

Vegetarian cookies?

Now you’ll have to share, Michael, and hope they’ll also share when they get care packages.

Looks like a sudden surge in popularity for Michael.

Nice to see Weed, the poor little rich boy, again.

This brings memories!! Being stationed overseas and receiving “care packages” from mom & sis!!!

:-)

Quick! Eat ’em before those other kids ask you for one!

Amazing how everyone else in the room perked up too!

Ooh… He’s gonna be in a rude surprise when he bites into those…

Weed? Hmmm….

Rookie mistake, never announce that out loud.

We sent my younger daughter back to school with some of my husband’s fantastic home-made spaghetti to share with friends.

Annnnd… there’s Everyone!!

A belated thank you goes out to all of you that sent care packages to service people in the past! When I was in Bahrain, we were up to our ears in cookies. ;-p

You’re always a favourite when you get cookies!

Elly has done a good job demanding her family be healthy and that they will not sponge off OHIP.

She may be allowing Michael to have the privilege of junk food for now, but eventually he will figure it out like the others.

That.. was when postal rates were reasonable, now it’s too expensive to mail anything. Cost me $29.60 to mail a 6 dollar box of Ferrero Rocher® chocolates from Edmonton to Vancouver Island.. regular post. 60 something for expedited couple of days.

Finally, a scene at Michael’s school. We haven’t had one since freshman orientation abruptly dropped off.

“Did your girlfriend send photographs?”

Sending photographs by mail! How quaint. (Back then)

nothing better than care packages from home

This strip was done in 1994. If it was today, they would all be eating bugs.

Now that is a care package.

Oh, definitely! There’s nothing like home-baked cookies!

are they space cookies?

LOL.. Wait until he taste tests the Zucchini cookies.

Bean cookies??

I know they’ve been cookies, but what are they now?

They look like a bunch of starving ghouls in a Siberian Gulag..

Ah yes, care packages from home, always a favorite of GI’s and college kids everywhere.

The only time my mom sent a “care package” duirng my freshman year at school it included a box of cookies she had baked. They were loose in the box, and they didn’t fill it so they bounced around in the box and off each other the whole trip. The result was a box partly full of fairly tasty crumbs. Nice idea with execution issues. I didn’t complain, was frankly surprised she’d sent anything.

Better than gold

COOKIES!!!!

“She DEFINITELY didn’t send noods . . . ha ha ha.” (Self-censored because GoComics is kinda’ a big baby.)