For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 23, 2018

how about the jerk-wad calm down before he gives the bozo a black eye?

I am not sure where to go with this one:

1. Does the man think they are both ladies because they both have long hair?

2. Does the man think they are both ladies because he thinks women can’t drive?

3. Does the man think they are both ladies because their cars hit each other in a feminine way?

Which gender stereotype is the punch line?

It looks like Ellie is at fault. Well, these things happen.

This has gone from bad to worse. Next stop? Just plain UGLY!

If this accident occurred in B.C., Ellie would be automatically at fault because she was turning left.

Long hair gets my vote !

If this becomes a court case, we will see a very different man show up to court. If the greasy long hair and the goatee are not a turn-off to the judge, the attitude definitely is.

The one where the guy gets punched in the nose.

All of them….

Well, I feel sorry for John. He loves that car! Elly should never have tried to drive it. She wasn’t familiar with it, and you see that she was a danger to others. Her son was in that car! Learn from Lynn’s “humorous” take on it today.

Sounds like more sexual stereotyping to me.

Ellie could either be very afraid that this aggressive person is the one she hit or grateful that he will take care of any other aggressive people who are making a bad situation worse. I’m betting on the last one.

Hey, GoComics! Would you PLEASE fix your formatting? Your justification settings keep cutting words in half.

Fault is hard to determine. We don’t have enough information, yet. What color was the traffic signal? Was there a green arrow, or was it yield on green? Was the bus attempting to turn also? Were there lane markings which allowed the guy to pass on the right?

From the previous strip, we do know Elly wasn’t paying full attention. We saw her ‘wool gathering’ as she drove, but no policeman could know that. If Elly was turning left when she should have been yielding to oncoming traffic, and if the guy was passing on the right when he shouldn’t have been, then they are both partially at fault.

I’m not sure about Canadian provinces, but some US states have ‘contributory negligence’ laws, and others don’t. In some places you have to be 100% right to collect from the other parties insurance. In other places fault is assessed by degrees. (and, a ticketed offense doesn’t always prove fault when a person has to be 100% right in order to have the other person’s insurance pay.)

Every time I drove my husband’s car something weird would happen to it. I named it “Christine.” That car hated me.

I inherited a Mercury Marquee from my father in law; it was a 1970 model, I think. I t was one of those huge boat like cars of that era.My father in law took immaculate care of it; it was always pristine, inside and out. The engine and transmission were always maintained in perfect condition. When he died, I took it over to use as a work car. I admit I didn’t take very good care of it and I really believe that like in the movie “Christine”, it hated me! it would run flawlessly, then in the most difficult traffic situation, it would abruptly stall; the engine would not start. then after a few minutes when the traffic had gotten snarled up enough, you could start it and it purred like a kitten.

Very much is uncertain these days.