Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for September 01, 2009

This is getting redundant. She should of been out of that place a long time ago and back with Byrd..

She finds the price of bait breath-taking .

Keep your eye on the prize….Gertie .

Your not alone on that page !

I don’t see this reunion ending well…..

Where (better yet) how long are we going on this storyline. I must be nuts for staying with this strip. Where is Mary Worth when you need her?

Has Byrd arrived at the Savoy yet? Is he over at the Taylor house jammin’, with Andy on guitar?

oldbooger, there is no doubt that - long ago - Mary Worth would’ve dispensed with some sage advice…but it wouldn’t have been NEARLY as funny!

All that money and she hasn’t even had her hair done yet. And I sure hope she’s going to have her hair done.

Wait, is this all happening in real time?

I think Gertie missed her chance with Byrd. She’s in for some heartache and a big bill to pay.

All that money spent, and most guys would never even notice that she had a new dress!

This is stupid.

I’m going to guess that Gertie is using “on time” to mean something like paying for it gradually…?

I am unfamiliar with that usage, so the pun didn’t work for me.

Kreniigh: “On time” meant a retailer’s payment plan in the days before everyone had credit cards.

I recently read that some chains are bringing back “lay-aways”, where the customer makes payments over time before taking the product home. That’s how many families got their first TVs.

What’s the next what’s-old-is-new-again? S&H Green Stamps?

Next, we’ll have a week of Gertie getting dressed for her romantic ambush of Byrd. Meanwhile, who keeps an eye on Walt? Is he in respite care? Maybe, he’ll wander off again and end up living with the Gumps or flirting with Tillie the Toiler.

Todd said, Wait, is this all happening in real time?

Yes.

Real cartoon time. Whatever the artist decides it is.

There’s actually one sentence in today’s strip that does NOT end with an exclamation point! How rare.

But who’s counting?