Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 11, 2024

Things like this happen all the time between my better half and myself. Comes with spending 50 or 60 years together.

I’m never sure what my wife wants or is thinking. If I ask her answer is always whatever you want and then the process of elimination of what I want begins.

Janis, now it’s time to listen to Arlo.

Tsk……neither one wants to be held culpable for the outcome of the decision to be made….which is why they each want the other to make that decision.

Here’s a thought, buy one of those vintage old fashioned motor court with about 10 rooms on the coast, could be a whole new series of ideas for a comic strip for Arlo and Janis and could be closer to “the kids”.

My hubby likes to eat at “it ’s up to you” , “wherever you want” or my favorite“It doesn’t matter”. I prefer to eat at " I don’t care." But I could decide easily this situation. Go home and start packing and call a realtor in the kids area and describe what you want. I’m not getting any younger and neither is this strip!

It’s better they do what both of them want rather than being so divided. Something favorable will spring up for both, and they’ll be a lot happier!

My wife has been completing my sentences since before we got married. I don’t mind, I’m a man of few words.

LOL! Looks like one of those “Let’s go out to dinner.. Where do you want to go?” moments!

NEVER attempt to understand a woman. Once you think you do, we change our minds…a woman’s prerogative.

’Jinx"??

I’ve lost track of who wants what.

Synchronized thinking.

“Jinx!” you owe me a coke for synchronized speech. “Padiddle!” for one eye cars got the other person a punch in the arm or a kiss on the cheek. Corny? Silly? I suppose but ya’ never grow up.

Bored with this.

Bored also. Send A&J back home to Ludwig and let them be happy there. If JJ wants to retire, let him do what Lynn Johnston did with For Better or For Worse, start over at the beginning with re-runs. At lot of us were not around in the early days.

We say “Blessed”.

Ho no…

About what?

WHY would they even consider living in an alligator and serpent-infested neck of the woods? Just stay wherever the hell it is they live.

When we are looking tile for the bath, if I start off with a "Babe, what do you think of this? He will always respond with “Well what do you think about it.”

This will go back and forth and then the “Do you like it” comes up. If I like it, it does in the like pile and if I ask him if he likes it I get “Whatever you want, put it together and let me loolk then,”