For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 20, 2021

A guy has gots to know his priorities!!

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I guess it depends on what appetite you want to feed, Michael.;-D

Rude awakening girlie!

Good for you, Michael.

Serves her right.

M could have asked for something he just read in his erotic book (cf last sunday’s FBOFW)

Michael, that’s life. You will have to deal with it.

You deserved that, Martha, the way you dumped Mike. The best thing is he rejected you not out of revenge but he is no longer interested in you. Hurts, doesn’t it?

Panels 1 and 2… *insert “muh muh ma maw muh maw maw muh muh maaa” underlay*

“Now that I’m free again, tell me what you want me to do”….. Martha, go take a very long walk off a very short pier…

Actually, if Michael is serious about his “I don’t feel it” assessment, his reaction to whatever it was she was saying was about the best response he could have made.

The bloom is off the rose.

Ouch.

She offers anything you want her to do. Beware Mike.

Teenage boys I knew and was had short memories when girls were concerned. She’s a girl of course he would take her back.

Sounds like a future Stepford wife.

Well, she is at work.

Well, I suppose you might as well give her a few orders while you have the chance. That’ll change.

I’d be very careful eating that order of food, Mike!

Way to go, Mike. You didn’t succumb to her feminine charms. You’re maturing.

That’s my boy…lol

Good call Michael. Love the expression on her face in the last panel.

Spit on the cheeseburger, Martha.

Good answer!

I’ll have a Whopper.

Recommend you focus harder in school and with extracurricular activities, Michael. Do so in order to get into the best college and best paying career out there. Remember, women always want a man who can take care of them. As an adult the overarching question will always be “What’s this doing to put food on my table?”

The little wench didn’t get the reply she was expecting…

We’d like one Martha to go (on a date with).

….and a double order of karma! ;o)

Yay! She SO deserved that!

HA!! Good for you, Mike! Because if she played you for a sucker once, she’ll do it again!

Excellent! Then tell her to kiss your ass.

Does not even look the same? She looks the same to me. The difference between now and the last time we saw her is the work uniform.

SPOILER the rest

Mike has an issue with working class girls which will be even more evident with his next girlfriend. Ultimately Michael will only marry a girl with a degree and who is from a well- off family like his.

WHY would Martha have this conversation while she is at work? How awkward!

Martha learns the perils of showing one’s true colors!

talk about your personal life while off the clock, Martha, not “flirt” with the customer

The bubble is burst…

She didn’t think he’d say it out loud in public. And that request may be a request too far.

One thing at a time; you got the right priority kid……

So, now you say you’re sorry, you cry the whole night through. Well you can cry me a river, cry me a river…I cried a river over you.

You made Michael fail his driving test, Martha. Now, you have to live with the consequences.

She’s a silly, shallow girl.

Good move Michael!

Way to go Mike, you da Man…

I am not usually a fan of Michael but he did the right thing here, she will just dump him again if another guy came along. He realized that she would treat him like a doormat and won’t go through that again. I have said that after all the heartache and crap my soon to be ex husband has done to me in the last year and half , if he came crawling back to me on his knees begging to come back to me I would kick him to the curb so hard he wouldn’t know what day it is.

Classy, Mike.

I wouldn’t eat anything she gives me now if I was him… might have a ‘special’ toppong