For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 12, 2024

So how long would she have held up anyone unlucky enough to be behind her while she does all of this? Hard to see if anyone is waiting behind her. That is why it is best to not write checks in a grocery line. No bags for her grocery purchases? Yes I know that this is a comic and the point was to be funny, but is not funny in real life.

Elly is as dense as the cashier is observant.

There were few clues left around, Elly, happy Mother’s day to Elly and the other moms around.

From Lynn’s Comments:Does anyone write a cheque for groceries anymore?

I’m with @mccollunsky – who cares about the checks…Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there!

Even single women are called mami in South America

This is why I never buy a purse that has only one section. I have a section for everything & know exactly where everything is in it. I never have to dig.

OMG – I HATE people like her in front of me in the queue!!

My DIL sent me a Mother’s Day card. Love that sweet girl. Son is taking me out for coffee later. Life is good.

One might assume.

And for you Americans, “cheque” is how Canadians spell the word check (A bank payment piece of paper.)

(except when it is a check mark, or to check if something is in order.)

words weren’t needed… :J

She didn’t tell him with words … but he got the picture.

DUH!

Did he not bag her groceries?

Ooga Farley

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Elly is a southpaw!

Ah, the good old days of cheque writing at the cash.

The cashier took a big risk presuming she was a mother! Those could have been her own lollipop and toys as momentoes of her youthful years. But he was hedging his bet on the type and quantity of the groceries that said “family”. Happy Mothers Day to all mothers out there!

My wife’s purse is a bottomless pit and easily weighs over 10 kg.

Same with farm/horsefolk. Hay, shavings, baling twine, small blade, hoof pick, one spur maybe, and a tonne of cookie crumbs. Blatant give-away tho is the knee high, broke down, beat up boots we be sporting with our shorts in the middle of summer.

TTTttthhhhhbbbbth!

Ellie, you are no Hercule Poirot.

Reminds me of The Pajama Diaries from May 04 of this year.

I remember those days of writing checks at the grocery store. But, I usually would start the check while waiting in line. Then all I had to do was enter the amount when the cashier was done. Saved time.

Now I use plastic chip card. Sometimes a wireless connection so I just wave the card. So much easier to let your money go that way ;-)

Some stores don’t supply bags. lt’s BYOB’s…

Happy Mammy Day, Elly!

I’d be gnawing my fingernails off if I was stuck behind Elly

People still write cheques?

I used to dread going shopping with my mother. She never owned a credit card. When it was time to pay at the grocery store, she would pull out the check book, find a pen, slowly write out the check, show her driver’s license, pass it to the check-out person, and then we’d go. There would be another ten people backed up behind us. But she’s gone now. It’s been two years, and I wish every day that I could stand in a grocery line with her just one more time.