For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 24, 2021

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    retrocool  over 3 years ago

    the wagon vaguely resembles a Volvo, but with Mike there it looks like a Mini.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    let’s commence with the car’s outside first, shall we?

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    LeeCox  over 3 years ago

    You walked right into that one, Michael!

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    Black76Manta  over 3 years ago

    Good one Sir

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 3 years ago

    He’ll really get to know the beast when he starts having to “feed” it.

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    GirlGeek Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Shouldn’t he learn how to feed the car first

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    KA7DRE Premium Member over 3 years ago

    It goes with the territory Michael.

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    oddhumor  over 3 years ago

    Well played, John. Well played.

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    stillfickled Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wow, he’s tall.

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    DavidHewlett  over 3 years ago

    Guess ‘Mike’ won’t be so quick to make a comment like that again ! ! !

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    Ambush Kitten  over 3 years ago

    Station wagon? Excuse me while I time-warp back to the previous century. Even then teenage boys wouldn’t be caught dead driving the family station wagon.

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    littlejohn Premium Member over 3 years ago

    One must obey the person who hold the keys. If one wishes to drive oneself with those keys.

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Either Michael is now a giant or that is the tiniest station wagon I’ve ever seen.

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  over 3 years ago

    If this wasn’t a hand drawn cartoon strip the mismatch in size could be attributed to a wide-angle lens.

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    djtenltd  over 3 years ago

    HA!! That’s what Michael gets for trying to be grown! He’ll also soon learn that driving cars is cool, but it’s a royal PITA when it’s time to fix them!

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    freewaydog  over 3 years ago

    Noone drives a station wagon anymore

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    dwdl21  over 3 years ago

    Hmm, my dad had me washing the car with him when I was old enough to walk…lol

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    ctb11365  over 3 years ago

    When I was about 15, I figured out that offering to back the car out of the garage and wash it and vac the interior got my Dad used to handing me the keys. HE was HAPPY to do so for my clean-ups, but the ease of getting the keys did not transfer automatically. OH, we had a clean car!

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    sheilag  over 3 years ago

    Holy CR@P! Mike looks like he’s 7’5" tall there… ;-)

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    rhpii  over 3 years ago

    Wax On, Wax Off.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wax on. Wax off. Learn to appreciate the object of your desire by working on it and for it.

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    trainnut1956  over 3 years ago

    Sure, Mike, but first… you have to get a job so you can afford your own damn insurance and gasoline, and put enough away for the inevitable traffic tickets and for the deductible when you wreck the car.

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    Budman 2  over 3 years ago

    Please don’t plug in the vac (last panel)

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    rshive  over 3 years ago

    Around here, many of the gas stations have car washes attached. They’re usually freebies. Can’t remember the last time I saw anyone washing a car.

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    j.l.farmer  over 3 years ago

    as a birthday gift for my husband one year i completely his vehicle, inside and out, myself.

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    calliarcale  over 3 years ago

    Clever. :-)

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    djmz33  over 3 years ago

    Lynn’s Comments: In the last panel, I think I drew Michael too big. His legs are too long and his waist comes up to the roof of the car!

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    johnschutt  over 3 years ago

    I used to wash and wax my parent’s station wagon. Man, a 66 Chevy Impala was big!

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    Cincoflex  over 3 years ago

    just an observation: that kid drinks a LOT of soda!

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Something is OFF!

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Good one dad.

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    kamoolah  over 3 years ago

    Michael should be able to try out for the NBA in the last panel. After that, he can get whatever car he wants and still have plenty left over to afford the insurance. John and Elly will be pleased too. That is point of having a child, to see that it becomes a monetary success, to provide for you in your old age, and to boast to other couples how their kids are failures by comparison.

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    Plods with ...™  over 3 years ago

    Holy carp! Clown cars come in station wagon? Or is that a mini cooper clubman?

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    homerec130  over 3 years ago

    My brother and I (when we were little) washed mom’s car with Spic and Span – ended up being a dull green. Some years later, that eventually became my first car – a 1958 hand me down which finally died like the Blues Mobile in the summer of 75. It was a great car.

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    USN1977  over 3 years ago

    This is not surprising. Many famous leaders had to get such lessons before they became leaders. A good example was Frederick the Great, who as a child was put to work shoveling manure with the peasants. As a teenager he joined the Prussian Army with the rank of private. Being a prince in those days was something far different than what we associate the term with today.

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    kab2rb  over 3 years ago

    Then Mike will learn to respect after cleaning up outside and inside, to keep it clean.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    Dad sure knows how to make the young lad work.

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    VegaAlopex  over 3 years ago

    I’d rather a small car; it’s easier to clean and I hardly ever have passengers.

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    sheashea  over 3 years ago

    I love it when they bring that kid back down to earth.

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    The way this one is drawn today, Michael will not even FIT in the driver’s seat.

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    rebelstrike0  over 3 years ago

    Hey John time to read the Emancipation Proclamation and realize what you are doing is wrong. Michael is not your sla…

    Oh wait, this is Canada and it is legal there. My bad!

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    BlitzMcD  over 3 years ago

    Just like the Jeepers character in the classic motion picture, Las Vegas Hillbillys (sic), Dad here is practical minded!

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    CoreyTaylor1  over 3 years ago

    John Patterson, you fork-tongued bastard! I hope all the old folks will be laughing with you when Elly’s dead and Michael chucks you in a rest home! You better not ever need blood from him.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 2 months ago

    Still think a car is worth it?

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