For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 03, 2009

I remember those days, seems like forever ago, although I am only 21. Sitting in alphabetical order, people getting held back. Good times….glad they are over.

What are the odds that Mike will marry Deanna?

The odds are 1 in 1.

If I’m not mistaken the For Better or for Worse comic strip started exactly 30 years ago today. Happy birthday!

This also happens to be Nermal’s (from Garfield) 30th birthday

We never sat in alpha order, we sat shortest in front, tallest in back.

How much time do we have to wait until April reappears? Wasn’t Elizabeth about 10 when she was born? That would make it about 2017…or there abouts.

Even in high school we had to sit alphabetically at least in home room, but also in many of our classes. It gets tiring to have to sit near the same people all the time year after year…..

I only had to sit alphabetically in calculus. I was too far back to see the blackboard and it was dark there, and I like to sit next to the door or I feel trapped. I fell asleep and even got a C once! If I were a teacher, no way I’d ever do alphabetical. There are reasons kids sit where they do.

That’s not fair to make kids sit alphabetically. What if the kid whose last name starts with a W has a problem seeing the blackboard because of poor eyesight?

Mike is just like that David Jones song, “Put Me Amongst The Girls”. He’s getting an early start!

Mike, Yeah Right! LOL! :-D

We sat alphabetically in school and when I got bumped from the front of one row to the back of the next by someone new coming in, we finally found out I needed glasses! That also explained my headaches and stomach aches I’d had all year up to that point.

because of alphabetical order,the same girl sat in front of me for years.she wore thick glasses and braces.My junior year she showed up @ my house while I was mowing my lawn with no braces& contacts& told me she’d always had a crush on me.She was the most beautiful creation I have ever seen.It was the best summer of my life!

Isn’t it interesting how we hated having assigned seats in grade school, we always thought we should be able to sit where we wanted to whenever. Now that I’m in college, we sit in the same spot every day, sometimes by ppl we don’t even like! But we continue to sit there, as if we were trained that way or something!!

Even cartoonists suffer human frailties. Sad, but c’est la vie.

My H.S. biology teacher, Don Bonamy, had us sit in order of our test result grades, the top grade level students closer to the front and graduating to the back. I was further back…waaaaayyy further back. Just too many long stupid Latin terms. NUTS!

I had a freshman science teacher do that and I was generally in one of the first five to eight chairs, but our class basically made it a contest! We STRUGGLED/FOUGHT over the first chair all the time! The flunkies, no offense Earl, made it a joke to see who got the last chair to mock us smarties! Jr High was so great!

Knowing the problems some kids have with eyesight, hearing, and concentration, sitting alphabetically doesn’t work well, except for the teacher when he/she is taking roll.

in some classes you ( I ) sat in the back of the class if you were a mischief maker

I am with bald on that last remark. Noted it in many a class. I always sat upfront, keener that I was ….

pibfan868! Great to see you off the Couch and checking out the Canuck way of life! Have some poutine….

In my high school geometry class, Father Winterscheidt had us sit by test grades, only the best grade got to sit in the very back of class. By the end of the term there were two competitions going on. One to see who’d sit in the backmost chair, and the other to stay away from the frontmost chair. I think his method worked well because the geometrically challenged folks didn’t want that front seat so they studied harder. I was in the back chair for most of the term. Dunno why but geometry came easily to me.

Misng, thats a good idea actually, have the lower grades sit closer, so you can see if they are paying attention, and the higher grades farther back, because you know they are paying attention. However, being in college and being able to sit where I want, I’m always near the back, or closer to the door. It depends on where the teacher is in relation to me, I stay away from the teacher. That is an interesting point Nicole.

I was rather surprised to find out we have assigned seats in law school!

Nicole, I disagree. Jr. High was the pits. The only good thing about it was my school was 3 blocks from home so my brother and I got to go home for lunch sometimes. 8th grade science was the worst. That’s where I was when Kennedy died.

in the last panel, Michael suddenly looks like adult Michael! LOL! And since Lynn has changed the Deanna storyline at this point, maybe she’ll change the later story, too! She might even drop April entirely, since she was the ficticious child anyway.

April was the “ficticious child”? They’re all ficticious, but have become real to many of us. April was a surprise! Is Lynn actually changing the story? I wish they would give the original publishing date.

I think Lynn should keep April, and the rest of the family storyline, the way it was, but change some out of family story lines.

I don’t remember sitting in alphabetical order at all in preschool, kindergarten or elementary school. I just remember sitting close to the black-/whiteboard when I got into middle school, high school and community college for my eye-sight was a little bad.

Of course she moved back to be near you. She even left her family behind and moved all by herself!

As for April being “fictitious” above the others, I think it just means that she didn’t have a counterpart in real life. Mike and Liz are loosely based on Johnston’s real life kids.

Marvee - Michael is based on Lynn’s son Aaron (Michael is his middle name); Elizabeth is based on Lynn’s Katie (Elizabeth is her middle name); “Ellie” is a tribute to Lynn’s childhood friend; “April” was based on nobody.

So, where is everyone from?

Oh no, Deanna’s back, what’s going to happen now?

LOL!!!

Susan, maybe April wont go to the river in the first place, and Farley will die in his sleep? Its just something to think about, roll around in your head for a while.

As a matter of fact Susan, yes, I do.

I’m from Frisco

JosePeterson said: “I’m from Frisco”

I didn’t think any resident of San Fransisco ever refered to it as “Frisco”.