Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 17, 2015

Advantages of having a selective bad memory – when the wife asks if I remember a classmate named (x) it first answer is – nope. Lost track of most classmates and do not know or care where most are anyway. Had 750 in the grad class in HS and only really knew about 30 at any level of personal interest.

What is wrong with her?

Looks like Janis is doing more regretting than admitting.

Arlo is right. Consider the issue. Deal with it and get on with life. Regret is destructive.

I could deconstruct the relationship or I could laugh. LOL

Why is he talking to her back all the time?

Ouch.

Oh, that’s just rude and sexist.

Burn #2, Poor Arlo

The road not taken. My HS was all boys, over 5000 them from all over NYC. No HS romance memories. College was a different story – more females than males.

The situation reminds me of Joyce’s story The Dead. Husband Gabriel was shocked by wife Gretta’s strong feelings for a boy who had died years ago.

Regret is the most foolish of human activities. The regret is always over something you have idealized. If you hadn’t done that, the bad thing wouldn’t have happened. But how are you so all-knowing that you can say where that would have led? If you’re honest, you can think of a dozen truly terrible possible outcomes if you had done or not done the thing you regret doing or not doing.

That fourth panel is what really steams me. If Arlo had said that to Janis, people would be screaming about it. A man hits a woman, same thing. He insults her body or her sexual performance, same thing. And all of these are wrong. I’ve got no problem with that.

But when a woman does any of these things to a man, it is supposed to be funny, or at the least, understandable.

Talk about a double standard.

maybe someone can help me out..there is a saying or poem that talks about regret. The only line I remember is something about “the saddest words of…are these: it might have been.” Anyone know the whole quote?

With Janis’ attitude, Arlo may start regretting missed past opportunities.

I hope Arlo has a “headache” tonight.

Dump Janis for Robin, NOW!

Arlo, you could do BETTER!

What time of the month is it…

A very red pill moment, courtesy of Janis

I don’t agree with Janis’ current attitude towards Arlo but it doesn’t have to mean the wrong time of month when a female is snarky. And I’m pretty sure Janis is done with that.

Wow. Second day in a row that Janis has been extra snarky.

Arlo, show her what you can “get done”!

And now we know why Arlo doesn’t get much done.

knew

Janis has been quite curt this week? Ouch !!

@mcapone“It’s a poem about a rich judge who meets a poor-but-beautiful farm girl… a moment passes between them, then they go on their separate ways, both thinking over the years how their lives would have been different had they wed each other instead.”.On an episode of JUSTIFIED a few weeks back, Arlo Givens is telling the joke/tale of a time in which Hillary and Bill got tired of Secret Service being on them all the time, so they snuck out of the White House..Along they way they came across a man pumping gasoline at a service stateion. Hillary mentions he was the first man she ever dated..Bill says, “Just think of who and where you’d be if you had married him instead of me.”.Hillary responds, “I’d be the First Lady and living in the White House..”(in case you didn’t catch it, the implication was that whoever was her husband would have been president.)

Wow, again being mean to Arlo. Harrumph.

He acted like he wanted to know what was bothering her. She told him. He trivialized it and got shot down for doing what most males do — not letting a female work through their problems without hounding them and making them feel stupid because it’s not a problem the male thinks is important. He judged her mood and she judged his performance. Neither of them — their finest hours. Most females work much harder than men do on and off the job because we get most of the detail work on the job and come home to yet another job while the male insists on “free” time as his right.

@comicsssfan Gabriel seems to have been modeled on those men who can live with a woman for decades without really getting to know them. Joyce doesn’t tell us much about what Gretta thought of him.

@Night-Gaunt49“Men, white men are still in charge of over 90% of everything. Women are still raped constantly by men who expect to have the right to do so.”.Written as if it is exclusively and enormously those evil white guys.

ZING!!

Jackson Browne ended the song These Days with the line “Please don’t confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them”. I listen to that song and still wake up at night thinking about things I did and things I didn’t do back in high school over 40 years ago, including relationships with the opposite sex. I don’t think I have any regrets, just ghosts!