Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 19, 2014

Actually, the answer to yesterday’s question was that the grass was white in panel 3. Of course, that was a colorist problem…

“I’m too young to fear change.”

Lagging quarters? Is that like pitching pennies with inflation?

One of the very few times you’ll see a cigarette in a family comic these days.

Varnes: I lagged quarters in my misspent youth! And I’m an old fart. Bought a lot a of cigarettes with my winnings.

I thought it was a family owned and operated restaurant. I didn’t know they hired busboys.

If the cartoonist stays away from a character long enough he can make any changes to their appearance he wants. Maybe he’s staying away from Arlo and Janis so he can make changes. Remember he did make changes to Arlo’s hair a couple weeks ago.

Quarters!!?? In my youth, and leeneuman you can’t be that old, quarters were serious money. We lagged pennies in the 50’s.

So how many years have elapsed since they first made the decision to sell? Meg was only 3 or 4? The timeline has become confusing.

PS. I am also a 57 year old boomer, & I am going for my 3rd degree Dan black belt. I hear 60 is the new 30. I am in the best shape of my life! I have friends who have passed, also, but we are not old, by any means! I hope that Arlo & Janis, if drawn “older”, take a youthful attitude & are active & vibrant. According to stats, your prime earning years are 40-60, so you do not have time to be “old”!

Meg will miss the place, since it is a big part of her life. And this is not the first reference to the busboys being slightly shady.

I’m a Depression baby (‘35), and my cohorts are really peeling off. I seem to be slowing down, but manage to get to the gym three times a week, cook three items for the homeless on Fridays, shepherd the kids in Wisconsin from time to time, etc. One gentleman in my Koinonia group is 91, is still sharp, and drives across town. On December 2, my high school class of ’53 will have a bang-up holiday dinner, probably at the Yacht Club again. Trying to think of the point of this, but I guess that it’s that old folks can ramble on.

…why?…exactly what is your definition of an ideal childhood?…

the busboys? whew, glad it wasn’t the cooks! Although she’d learn a few new words hanging out with the cooks… (former busboy, dishwasher and cook)

Boomers are those who were born when (mostly) men came home from WW2 and started families. There was indeed a great increase in the population then.

Gokie5: At least one other Depression Baby (1933). I don’t know what these children are complaining about.

Baby Boomers were born 1946-1964.

I do not enjoy the new look.

Meg once asked a snide question to Gene….If he’d been hanging out with the dishwashers…..Bus boys are usually presentable to the public….Dishwashers tend to be a little…. um, different lets just say. The machine does all the work, so you don’t have to be a rocket surgeon to be a dishwasher…….

…so being pressed into child labor in a family business is wrong, but doing chores on the family farm is ok?

Boomers ( I am one) can also be divided into about 1946-954 and 1955-1964. The dividing line is the draft. Those in the latter group turned 18 after the draft was ended. They had a very different experience in some important ways

Did ten years in the hospitality biz, from busboy to banquet Mgr. Waitresses, always pretty cool, except for that one. They don’t get along with cooks…Cooks can mess up and don’t have to face the customer…Cooks, ornery and cocky and they don’t like waitresses, except that one…Managers…They come in and change everything around so the can show they are making a difference. A year later things gradually fall back into the familiar pattern because that is the way it works the best because the building was designed that way….

How is watching TV and doing homework being “pressed into child labor?”

Negative boomer’s between 1946 and1964. Sorry to burst your bubble.