Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for June 08, 2014
June 07, 2014
June 09, 2014
Transcript:
Mom: In my day, you got a pen for graduation and that was your pen! Cathy: Your pen? Mom: Your pen for life! No drawers of dried-up ball points! No bulk-buy cartons of replacements! Your pen was your pen! Which you kept by your phone! One phone, made to last a lifetime, which actually lasted a lifetime! No 50-page user guide... no 1-800 hotline... no one ever threw out a phone because "it wasn't worth it to get it fixed"!! Hair dryers lasted decades! Radios were built for life! Toasters... TVs... coffee pots... watches... you got one, and that was that! People felt accomplished, because when we bought something, we were all done buying it! People felt trust, because things worked as they were supposed to... and if they didn't, the nice man at the store would feel just awful, and not sleep a wink until he'd solved the problem!! Cathy: Get any of that, Dad? Dad: No. Tape jam. Dead battery. View finder fell off. Then. Now.
midland1967 over 10 years ago
I still remember that hurt look on your face when you found out Bob was not being faithful to you on Mackinaw Island. Looking back, could have image you married him and spent your life with him. I could never image living in San Diego with my beloved Luz for almost 30 of of 40 years marriage. Another perfect day. My sister says you must go to Mission Bay every day. No, first time in months. I would never live in LA.
midland1967 over 10 years ago
I can’t sleep so I have taken my second anxiety pill. Even when you are retired, you worry about getting old and death. Luz wants to go to Maui. I went all over Asia and I was not a tourist. But whatever makes her happy. We better do it now before some illness hits one of us. Why let your kids spend your money?
dianalward over 10 years ago
Midland1967, I’m not sure why you are baring your heart on this website, but I am enjoying reading about you.
Gretchen's Mom over 10 years ago
One of everything that used to last a lifetime . . . that was back in the day when nice, good-quality things used to be made right here in America. Now all we’re stuck with is the low-quality, poorly made crap shipped in from outside our country instead. Sure, it’s a lot more inexpensive to buy but it’s so poorly made that it isn’t long before it breaks and when it does, it’s a lot cheaper to replace it with something new than it is to have the broken item repaired. :-(
Hi, rgcviper!
Hello and Happy Sunday, fellow “Cathy” fans. Guess everyone’s too busy enjoying the day to hang out here instead, huh?!? Can’t say as I blame you!!!!! ;-)
midland1967 over 10 years ago
My little girl, Lorilee,37, is giving up her successful career to go into writing and dancing. Sounds like when you gave your ad executive job to be a cartoonist. Are Feminists crazy?
rgcviper over 10 years ago
And, the [eye-roll] should cover things once again.
My Internet has been out all weekend, so I’ll try to catch up on “Cathy” soon. I’m sure I have an AACK, or four, to make …
HI, MOM. Happy Sunday, Clan.
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
That was then, this is now, Cathy’s Mom. I don’t think Cathy has the slightest idea what you are talking about. After all, the next best thing is right around the corner, not in the past four decades… ;)
midland1967 over 10 years ago
Lorilee is a NYC playwright. Her two fellow feminist friends and she did a three day dance feminist play. She was so excited about how well received. Of course, what do you expect from a group of feminists? She wants to make it a career. I told her to dream as long as you don’t get married or have kids. She can always come home if she fails. But that will never happen. She has always been a winner.My son wants to be a full time artist. He has his gallery on Facebook. He wants to open a gallery in the Mexican neighborhood in San Diego. All I care is that someone else manages it. He is terrible with money!
midland1967 over 10 years ago
Hello, Mrs. Guisewite,It has been almost half a century since I was at your house.I never thought of Cathy until I saw that video of her, talking about how you were discriminate as a woman. Then, all the stuff came back up about Midland.My father had dreams for me. But I wanted my life. My friends thought I was nuts when I was happy to have a low draft number. But I wanted my life. When he fixed it with Senator Griffin for me to go to Washington DC, I volunteered for Vietnam. Yes, I feared for my life. But I wanted to live my own life.In my bedroom, I have family pictures of my loving wife and my children. Maybe, I don’t have the fame my father wanted me to have.But this is my life, not his.