Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 11, 2015

I am providing links to some of the strips that were skipped over in this arc:

Joanie asks J.J. to go with her to the doctor.

Joanie and J.J. in the waiting room

Harpooning the great white whale.

When I was young, my dentist used to keep the hypodermic needle hidden, and told me it was a little pincher. One day, I turned around and saw it, and almost fainted. It looked to me like it was a foot long.

Thank you for the links – I wonder why Gary left them out?

Man, this is going on my list of reasons not to have babies.

“But in both cases the people poking you are superbly talented.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I beg to differ. ‘round the corner is a ’vampire store’ that I get blood drawn for my labs. There’s a little Cuban girl that could get blood from a mosquito and never leave a mark. She’s been put on a ‘float’ assignment and so I had to make do with two girls that couldn’t get blood out of a run-over deer. As a consequence,after 2 weeks, my arm is STILL black and blue from bicep to wrist.. NEXT cycle, I’ll call ahead to see where she is !!

This is ALMOST when I resumed reading Doonesbury, so some of these past strips have filled in some blanks ( the whole Rick/Joanie thing I missed ). Unfortunately in the military I simply didn’t have time even to read the newspaper except perhaps the larger stories in the Sunday papers on days they didn’t have us doing anything else.