Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 10, 2015
February 09, 2015
February 11, 2015
Transcript:
Joanie: Rick, I don't really understand. This is so completely out of the blue. Rick: I know it seems that way, but I've heard it's not that uncommon. Many people just have a kind of trip mechanism. You're going along fine and dandy, perfectly happy to be a single person, when, bam, you click into a different mode! Suddenly you want to be married to a person! Joanie: How romantic. I feel like an innocent bystander. Rick: Me, too. I'm just glad it didn't happen while I was driving.
BE THIS GUY almost 10 years ago
If it happened at McDonald’s, he would’ve asked the girl behind the counter to marry him.
rpmurray almost 10 years ago
Mark was working at McDonald’s?
ladykat almost 10 years ago
That’s basically what happened to us. Been rolling along cozily for 10+ years, looked at each other around our birthdays last year and basically said “yeah, it’s time”
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 10 years ago
Some people aren’t worth wedding.Some are.Those who say they want their freedom or “it’s only a piece of paper” really mean, “It ain’t you, babe, no no no, it ain’t you babe, it ain’t you I’m lookin’ for, babe.”
thirdguy almost 10 years ago
Besides, freedom is highly over rated.
steverinoCT almost 10 years ago
You’re going along, perfectly happy and single, and then Bam! you blow it.
Calvins Brother almost 10 years ago
Then there’s the opposite. CLICK, you want to be single. Happens a lot.
summerdog86 almost 10 years ago
Don’t marry her. She looks old enough to be your mother.
whiteaj almost 10 years ago
Bunch of cynics.
BE THIS GUY almost 10 years ago
It wasn’t legal back then.
vexman almost 10 years ago
you guys, i mean some of you, most bizarre comments. Hope it is just that online persona. This form of proposal is, to some of us, more appealing than conventional, trained expectation behavior. It was real and from the heart. No BS and open for discussion. Our was similar after cohabitation and breakup. If a person feels comfortable enough to not have to fear cracking eggshells, it is a good sign that there is more than fantasy. Don’t be so literal, kids. He meant her, not just anyone, and she knew that. Awkward and sincere is more appealing to some of us than intentional and self centered. Besides, we know the outcome. This is one guy she did not punch in the nose during the course of the strip.
drbeth almost 10 years ago
The “Cathy” comic strip somewhat ripped off this idea with Cathy’s very feminist friend Andrea one day standing at the microwave, the buzzer goes off, and Andrea says “It’s time.” Meaning time to meet someone, marry and procreate, all of which she does in the span of a few months, driving Cathy completely crazy.
pbarnrob almost 10 years ago
Serial monogamy can work, for me 8-1/2years, 10 “shopping”, followed by 30-1/2 (so far and counting, no signs of waning). Three or more, points to not learning from mistakes. See Sex at Dawn for the tribal version, which can also work, it’s just that our institutions frown on it. A stable grouping is required, I suspect.
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Probably good thing it didn’t happen when he was talking to somebody else…..
steverinoCT almost 10 years ago
Hogamus, higamus,Men are polygamous.Higamus, hogamus,Women, monogamous.—disputed