For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 26, 2013

Looks like Mike’s sweater lost its stripes in the fourth panel.

I’d settle for the rest …

Pure poetry. Maybe that will change some opinions. Somehow I tend to doubt it, though.

We had a couch like that, we called it the ‘vampire couch’, because if you sat down in it, it would suck all your energy away.

Several years ago, at my Mom’s promoting, I replaced my 30-year-old couch. The old one leaked stuffing all over and was frayed and ugly, but oh it was comfortable! I practically lived on that couch. The new one is just a piece of furniture.

I’m all for naps but John is going to miss out on memories. You don’t want the kids’ memories of dad to be, Oh, he was taking a nap.

for once i agree with John !!

I used to agree with John, but I’ve learned that once I get up and start moving, I feel so much better than if I had laid around. Plus, I agree with mrsdonaldson where my kids have such good memories!

The hard working father and provider needs his rest. I appreciate my man and try to see that he gets rest, even if I have more energy at the moment.

Where I live now that all my children are grown, I’m the neighborhood grandma. My 30YO couch has been jumped on and mistreated not only by my kids, but even by some neighbors’ and they love the whimsy with which I’ve decorated. So many little girls say “I wish my house was like this” and I know . . that’s how I decorate. My decor and all the sunlight though my windows, flowers in the garden and birds singing all day make me happy. And I’m in love; I get back to lands of snow and humidity to see him when I can.

send a post card

Just what would you call them, if not stripes?

As for the bike ride… as soon as I read “up” in reference to a hill, I felt just like John! No fun to ride up a hill. If we could see it, we would see they never made it. Try to picture Elly with Liz in a bike carrier, pedaling up a hill!

Dads need rest too, but I hope John doesn’t miss out on the children too much!

Sounds like something that Dagwood would say.

John’s worked hard all week and he deserves his rest. Maybe they can compromise though: let him nap for an hour or so FIRST and THEN go for a bike ride. It’s a whole lot easier to do something as strenuous as pedal a bike UP a hill if you’re well rested and wide awake than if you’re tired and feeling sluggish.

To Susan Newman, Just when I was bemoaning the loss of respect shown towards seniors in this country, I see your homage to your father and am encouraged. Soll sein mit Glick, Shoshana.

Our old couch’s previous owner succumbed to Alzheimer’s and had to leave the furniture behind. We kept the couch in the Florida room. It was ok for human beings, but its chief feature was to serve as a vessel for Kitty Boy, the hyper red half-Persian, who would disappear inside it whenever a man other than my husband came into the house.

Lynn’s Notes: Sofa? In my time in Canada (1970s) and in her native Vancouver, they were called Chesterfields. Is this a translation?