For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 22, 2022

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 3 years ago

    Dreadful.

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    capricorn9th  almost 3 years ago

    Well, your 30 – years – later self will have no need of those clumsy paper maps. Your car will have a navigation system if you buy a Porsche as your dad did. Or just GPS on your phone! Heck, your middle-class car could be installed with a navigation system if you want it aftermarket.

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    JD'Huntsville'AL  almost 3 years ago

    Why couldn’t you just get off at Waverly Street and cross over to the same highway you WERE on and go back to your exit? Is that too easy?

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  almost 3 years ago

    They all ain’t constructed like that. There are a lot of places where Off means just that, Off. Getting back on again is miles away and probably in the wrong direction. Or off lands you on a One-way boulevard.

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    Lightpainter  almost 3 years ago

    A kid his age might not be able to read a map even if he wasn’t crying. And why is he crying, anyway? Just the idea of being lost?

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    Ninette  almost 3 years ago

    This is how those slasher movies begin.

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    Jason Allen  almost 3 years ago

    Ah, the halcyon days before consumer GPS service.

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    Caldonia  almost 3 years ago

    Wah! One late night when I was 18, a cop pulled me over. I explained I was hopelessly lost, so he drove in front of me so I could follow him to the correct highway. Things sure are different in Houston these days. But Michael might be as lucky, because he’s in Canada in the 90s!

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    Strider Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Ah, the days before GPS. I remember those days.

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    saylorgirl  almost 3 years ago

    Getting lost is frightening, especially when you’re a teenager.

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    wschott  almost 3 years ago

    Wow! They used to print Google Maps!

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    So nice to have the HOME button now on my GPS!

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    flagmichael  almost 3 years ago

    I got lost on foot once and had an adventure. I was coming home from school after we had moved about 20 miles. I took the bus to downtown Oakland as directed but couldn’t figure out how to catch the second bus. I figured the house wasn’t too far away and I kinda remembered the address. Short story: I backtracked a few miles to the street I thought we lived on, then walked toward the address. Eventually I figured out I wanted 38th avenue instead of street. I walked 15 miles that afternoon. I wasn’t as tired as I was disappointed in myself.

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    The Pro from Dover  almost 3 years ago

    Just a little bit south of Saskatoon

    I’m as lost as can be in Dad’s car

    Thankfully I met a cop, her name was June

    A little bit south of Saskatoon

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    dwdl21  almost 3 years ago

    Umm, just get off at the next exit and come back, silly story line…lol

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Some adventures are better than others, but we seem to pay for all of them dearly.

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    Bob Blumenfeld  almost 3 years ago

    One of the reasons I finally switched from my antique flip phone to an iPhone was the maps app.

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    USN1977  almost 3 years ago

    Someone once asked Daniel Boone if he was ever lost. He replied “Lost? No, I was never lost. But I was once a mite bewildered for five days.”

    Dan was right. Nobody is ever truly lost if they have a sense of how to handle themselves and stay alert.

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    Yardley701  almost 3 years ago

    I guess they did not have cell phones then?

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  almost 3 years ago

    He is not lost he is just on an adventure!

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    yankfan25  almost 3 years ago

    Years ago, when I was “taxi-ing” my kids all over town & countryside, I discovered that they had no idea where geographical things were located, no street names or route numbers, nothing. That was before cell phones, GPS or phone maps. They learned the hard way, just like Michael.

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    Johnnyrico  almost 3 years ago

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    Johnnyrico  almost 3 years ago

    Just pull up Waze or Google Navigation on your phone! …….Oh, wait. This is Milborough. Such things don’t exist there. To be honest though, I do keep a few paper maps in the glove box as a backup… Just in case my phone is dead and it won’t charge…

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    Watchdog  almost 3 years ago

    The new generation?

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    rshive  almost 3 years ago

    Just don’t read the map when you’re driving, Mike.

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    Kawasaki Cat  almost 3 years ago

    Put it in reverse and back track.

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    Foob  almost 3 years ago

    Seriously, Lynn? You expect us to believe that the kid would get lost in the neighborhood he grew up in?

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    R Humble  almost 3 years ago

    A modern kid would use navigation on his phone not an old fashioned paper map.

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    paranormal  almost 3 years ago

    See what happens when you do something you’re not supposed to…

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    dennis.caunce  almost 3 years ago

    I remember these pre-GPS days. Printing out map quest maps… Nostalgia be damned, thank god for technology!

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    Katsuro Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I understand that a good cartoonist doesn’t over-stuff the speech bubbles, but it’s still weird that he thinks “HWY. 16” instead of “Highway 16.”

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    raybarb44  almost 3 years ago

    You may laugh but if, or when the GPS grid goes down, most people will have no idea on how to use a map or even what a map is. This could be us sooner than you think…

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    Susan00100  almost 3 years ago

    Will this arc continue on Monday?

    With Elly yelling and John about letting Michael use his car, and John relieved that the car is in one piece??

    Some priorities those two have!!

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    meowlin  almost 3 years ago

    Nice Sartre reference in the last panel.

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    beach004  almost 3 years ago

    I have SO been there! GPS is my best friend!

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    asrialfeeple  almost 3 years ago

    And this is why we have navigation now.

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    namelocdet  almost 3 years ago

    Now that brings back memories! Thanks to GPS, I can’t even remember the last time I was actually lost somewhere.

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    Ginny Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Poor kid. All that self-confidence he thought he had is not here today.

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    Ukko wilko  almost 3 years ago

    Just don’t wreck the car and you’ll be O.K.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Days before WAZE.

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    Petemejia77  almost 3 years ago

    Been there.

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    SquidGamerGal  about 2 months ago

    Your parents trusted you, kid… And now you have betrayed that trust! MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL!!

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