Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 27, 2016

“I just have to get used to taking showers with my clothes on.”

Has he never heard of a microwave or toaster oven?

WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO WHEN YOU CAN’T ENJOY A SIMPLE WIENER ROAST IN YOUR OWN OFFICE?Poor Mike.

You see the lengths we guys will go to in order to avoid a confrontation! Mike’s behaving in typical guy fashion. If he were a woman, he’d avoid the confrontation by sulking and insisting that nothing was wrong when his partner asked if something was wrong. How do we ever manage to reproduce ourselves? Or get a cup of coffee at Starbucks with our partners?

MW ovens are less expensive now because they are made by slave labor in third world countries.

Microwaves are also just more common these days, not so brand new. Many of those manufacturing jobs have gone overseas and they aren’t coming back, regardless of what some politicians like trump say. Many jobs could be created to help fix our crumbling infrastructure and there are many technology jobs out there, as the world keeps changing. If trump/Putin have their way, the manufacturing jobs will still not find their way back to the United States. Amazing that Putin has already made his mark on politics in Europe and is now trying to do the same in the United States!

We had a fire alarm go off and evacuated the building. When we got back in I saw some women laffing and asked why. It was one of their birthdays and the candles on a cake set off the alarm.

Did they have George Foreman grills back then?

But not exactly an impressive environment for entertaining clients.

In 1986 we’d had a microwave oven for several years. We were poor, but it was worth it. We probably saved the cost in two years of being able to reheat left-overs.

Anyway, in 1986, microwaves were common and fairly cheap (or we wouldn’t have had one).

On microwave ovens. Didn’t this comic show Mike just walking out with a suitcase? He didn’t move out dividing up possessions. He simply left. And once out, the fact he’s camping out in the office to save rent says it all. He’s not about to run out and buy appliances.

We bought our first MW in 76, my BIL had one in 73. Yes they were expensive, but by 81 or so, many of the younger middle class had one and they were in mini markets everywhere. By the end of the decade, they were everywhere, everyone knew what they were and the term “nuke it” was in the lexacon.