For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 15, 2009

This can only end horribly for both parties involved. You NEVER have a family member, especially a spouse, go to work with you. Especially when they will fill in as a secretary.

Sometimes it can work, as long as both parties are willing to compromise.

Elly just seems glad of anything different at the moment. But typical of John to not realise WHY she’s so happy about it. Duh!

Oooh SHUDDER! The terror! This page is not long enough to list my fears.

Flight Suit, whee, maybe people are learning how to handle trolling ;)

Hugs for you, Flight Suit. :-)

Oh, oh, a husband and wife working in the same office, that’s always a recipe for disaster, that’s one of the major factors that drowned the last company I worked for. And you’ll notice that the wife is always related to the owners.

Its not permanent; just a week of “vacation” for Ellie. She’s bored, this is a change! Have to wonder if Jean suggested it :)

Oh no this is certainly not going to work. He will be bossy because he’s the boss and she will get fed up.

My husband used to manage a pizza parlour and I thought he was probably a good manager and easy to work for since he’s pretty easy for me to get along with at home. But a couple weeks ago he was heading up a barbeque at our church. He asked for someone to open the hamburger and hot dog buns so they’d be ready when the meat was done. I said I’d do it and started to but then he started getting all in a tizzy about making sure the burgers didn’t end up with two tops or two bottoms. I had to walk away before I said something nasty to him.

We will see if Elly still feels like hugging him at the end of their working together week. I vote no.

Flight Suit - Well, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion.

I know of a number of doctors who work side by side with their wives in the same office, & it’s fine. In some cases the wives are also doctors, in others they are nurses or secretaries.

Of course, this is a comic strip, & it won’t be funny if things go well. :)

My cousin has worked with her husband who is a dentist for about 20 years now. They’re still married, and they still work together.

I remember how this pans out…………

I’ll keep it to myself ;)

Yes I remember this strip too. John wishes over and over by his expression he had not done this. When FBOW first started the author did a great job in my own opinion of covering up as the cuppel (sp) marriage has endurded over the years. I have seen family own business thrive. One medical practice or I should say Chriopractor the children took medical in the same practice as the dad. Except the daugther and mother. But all work at the same place. The dad is still in charge.

i’ve known a few couples who worked in the same place and the only way they got along was to be on separate shifts so they rarely saw each other

This is a good comic strip, and it’s nice to see the old ones again…but I wish my local paper would drop it, and Peanuts, for something new.

Sometimes couples can work together and sometimes they can’t. We’ll see what happens with these two.

My husband and I work very well together, and it doesn’t matter who’s the boss for a given project. The whole family used to run a restaurant, for over 40 years without major problems, just the occasional quibble now and then. Folks got tired so the restaurant was closed, but we still work together for haying, sugaring season, and whatever else needs doing around the farm.

My Doctor and her husband own a practice together. She’s a GP and he’s a cardiologist. They seem to be doing just fine.

remember when you were dating and you couldn’t bare to be one minute apart? well, this is the best thing then!

Elly can become a substitute worker at her husband’s dentist office if she wants to be or not.

Burgundy2, if done right, it can work, but if done wrong (John acts like Elly is the full time secretary, and not his part time secretary and wife) it will fail.

Burgundy2, I couldn’t help but noticed you wrote “worked”

I love being my BF’s sexretary! Chase me around the desk, catch me and kiss me!! Yummmmmm………

You can’t tie down a Banjo Man.

fritzoid, what does that even mean?

Thank you Hildi and Lightenup!

Very funny, Cleokaya!

Now then:

For those that are wondering what the above people were responding to, it was a post from me, conceding defeat and complimenting all of you for being wise enough not to take my troll-bait.

My question now is, why on Earth would anybody have flagged that post for removal? You folks have demonstrated that you’re not going to be brought down to the level of somebody trying to antagonize you, and that was the least offensive thing I’ve ever posted here.

Ah, well.

I seem to remember Elly telling someone, ( when she was older ), that working for John was difficult. She didn’t enjoy having her husband as her boss.

Flight Suit, I dont even respond to trolls. That stuff happens, just odnt do it again, and it shouldnt happen.

Don’t do what again? Trolling? ‘Cause the deleted post in question was the exact opposite of trolling. I am the first troll in history to admit that my intended victims vanquished me simply by taking the high road. That’s all I said, really, and the post disappeared.

Hmmm…

Maybe somebody was upset ‘cause I said you were all Canadian at heart?

I remember this week of Elly working with John. By the end, both are going to wish they had never thought of it. Bwahhhahahah.

Don’t do it Elly! It’s a trap, I tell you. A traaaaaaap

Yeah flight, trolling. How am I Canadian at heart?

Not you specifically, but you as in all of you here who follow this strip. My point had been that your collective approach of polite pacifism had defeated my attempts at trolling.

I concluded, therefore, that although some of you were not Canadians by birth, you were all Canadian at heart.

Which, of course, was a compliment, ‘cause Canadians tend to not go berserk and resort to combat as their first option the way we Yanks do.

I wouldn’t mind being Canadian :) And can’t understand who flagged this and even less why the moderators listened to the flagging…

mroberts, it means he’s a Banjo Man! You can’t tie down a Banjo Man!

(click on my avatar, or check out “Cul De Sac” for 9/15/09)

Hey, how do you make a banjo player slow down?

Put sheet music in front of him!

How do you make a Banjo player stop?

Put notes on it!

I got those from Garrison Keillor.