For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 16, 2024

What, Rhetta?

He’s an equally dense chip off the old block.

Ironic considering who he does end up with… I mean she’s technically not from his home town ANYMORE

Well, Michael, you’re about to!!! For me, it is the opposite…

What’s the comparison between those two events? Is Tracy from out of town?

Dating someone outside his hometown is a crucial point with Michael at this point in his life and should be a big warning sign to Rhetta that Mike is not considering her as his long-term girlfriend because deep down inside he wants to date someone from his university. Rhetta, like Martha before her, realizes that she is no longer Mike’s number one choice.

They are all at a fork in the road of their life. Gord and his fiancé have gone one way. Mike is surprised his friend has beaten a well worn path before he has, and suggests they haven’t dated more girls. Can you blame his GF for her reaction?

Yes, Mike, you did.

I remember that look. “Buddy, you wanna date somebody outside your home town? Be my guest. Oh, and you can drop me off at the next bus stop.”

Like father, like son.

Poor Rhetta!

Mike and Rhetta’s teenaged long-distance relationship just took another torpedo hit… Fired by Mike himself.

Open mouth, insert foot.

Mike, you should have quit while you were ahead.

You are in sooooo much trouble.

Michael wants to be a writer, correct? Thus begins Michael’s education OUTSIDE the classroom as an idea forms in his mind on writing a book called “Things not to say to a woman”….courtesy and influenced in large part by Rhetta.

Open wide insert foot

I don’t get it. All he said is that he’s never cheated on Rhetta.

“He” want’s you to be best man, not “they”.

Eyes on the ROAD Mike!

Open mouth, insert foot.

It is called in the doghouse.

Is that Rhetta or Brian? Why is the person upset?

I’ve only been to a couple of weddings. My cousins when I was a kid and when my mother wanted me to go with her to a coworkers wedding. Why do people (mostly women) cry at weddings? They’re getting married, not buried…

Michael put a BIG foot in his BIG mouth.

If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.

Oh come on, Rhetta! You were a summer fling almost two years ago. Certainly graduation should have been the end of it. A blind man could see it’s not going to last and I don’t know why you’ve kept it on life support as long as you have.

The first of my childhood friends who married did so when she and I were nineteen. There was a baby involved. I was not invited to the wedding and would not have accepted if I had been because I believed deep down to the marrow that she was making the mistake of a lifetime, that she’d have been much better off making a go of it as a single mother. Because she was a kind and generous soul, my adamance on this point somehow did not result in ruining our friendship. And a few years later her husband came out of nowhere and helped me through a tight spot. Just thinking of it now fills me with gratitude and humility. Alas, I haven’t seen either of them in fifteen years now, thanks mostly to an alienation caused by the disgraceful behavior of someone I did think very highly of in those days. I guess you never know.

Another friend of ours followed not long after. I didn’t get an invite to that one either, though our relationship was much less fraught and I could have attended and been happy for him in good conscience. I really don’t mind, he may well have been trying to keep things small.

Come to think of it I’ve been passed over for wedding invitations many times in my life. It would be very hypocritical of me to complain, because my being invited to a wedding, or worse still attending one, always fills me with crankiness at the ostentation of it all. Just the other day I got a save the date from a cousin and realized that the last time I can clearly remember speaking with her, Clinton was in office. Yet she’s invited me to fly across country on a holiday weekend. She should have saved herself a stamp.

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If Gordon is making money, he will be attractive to Allyson Creemore.

Like Madonna said “the man with the cold hard cash is always Mister Right”.

Too many ads and pop-ups hard to read the cartoons anymore

There’s a PEANUTS cartoon where Charlie Brown says: “It’s impossible to be around a woman for three hours and not say something wrong.”

Seems like Rhetta and Michael do not live in the world of television. There people go to public school then marry their prom date.

“Absence in love is like water on fire. A little quickens, but much extinguishes it.” -Hannah More

Typical of ‘young men’ out on their own for the first time and haven’t learned how NOT to insert foot into mouth ! ! ! !

Whoops! Not the right person to complain about not having “played the field” to! :-D

Open mouth, insert foot.

And yet, Michael marries Deanna, his elementary school sweetheart.

Say you’re not in a serious, long-term relationship with your girlfriend without telling her you’re not in a serious, long-term relationship with her.

I blame the beard

dead man driving. . . .

yup. yup you did