For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 07, 2014

Hey, Elly, buying some trinkets and stuff makes business trips fun! ;)

Elly, get youself something, too!

I’ve got to be the strangest woman in the world … I hate shopping and talking on the phone!

I positively loathe talking on the phone…as for shopping, I work in retail…trust me the absolute last thing I want to do when I get out of work is go shopping!

My wife doesn’t like shopping either as far as the phone is concerned—she hates it unless it is one of our daughters(we have 3, only children we have)then she can talk ‘til the cows come home’. Personally, I don’t like to talk on the much at all, I’m more a ‘face to face’ conversationalist.

I forgot what city she is in, but is the shopping really so much better? Other than NYC, I never go shopping when I go on trips because I know where the good stores are in my town, not in other towns.

I loathe shopping.

Love shopping, hate talking on the phone. But I love email and would probably love texting if I had a smartphone. Too bad there were no details about her visits with family but if we’d seen all of that the trip that was supposed to last only a week would’ve lasted 6 months. (at least in comics land)

I can remember scouring great cities for ‘cool’ stuff (e.g. sneakers) for my teenage daughter. I think San Francisco was a ‘Convers’ weekend. Luckily I got back since.

and good for business in the town she’s in

I, too, hate phones, mindless shopping and I don’t fly. Born a century too late.

My guy friends shops more than I do, he’s a nerd who just dresses nice

My favorite store is The Internet. It’s a mega-chain, located wherever I go. Thing is, prices are just all over the place. But the selection…!

What is in the window in the fourth panel? Is Elly going to hold an umbrella while wearing a leotard? Must be some new way to wow her husband after the kids go bed!

piloti: Winnipeg is the home office of the Governor and company of venturers trading into Hudson’s Bay – established 2nd May 1670 – as they keep telling anyone and everyone.

Has anyone noticed that her needs are on the bottom of the “to do” list? Everyone else needs have been met!

In an advice colum several years ago:Grandma was very upset because her grandson had been out of the country for several years, and wasn’t thoughtfulenough to bring her back a souvenir.(Grandson had just returned from a tour in Iraq!)

(She got plenty of flak from mothers whose sons didn’t come back)