For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 22, 2017

oh, knock it off, you jealous jerks!

Ugh. Boys. Martha is getting the first tastes of what boys are all about and how gross they are. When I was a teenager, I was very nervous around guys because they were crude, leering, predatory-like, etc. I only liked one boy because he was gentle and polite. He had a good upbringing and was of well bred stock. The type most girls found boring and went for the bad boys. But this guy drew girls like a moth to the flame. He had his pick of girls but it was never me until college. By college, I realized he was not my type but we remained friends. Thank God guys eventually outgrow this phase otherwise I’d probably never married my husband and had my sons. I hope my sons were not that crude when they were teenagers. My older is now married with a toddler.

It’s the old story: Kids with long pants taunt kids with shorts. Can’t we all just get “a long”?

Wow, Gordon really got fat quickly. He looked more normal before this. And I see Bryan does the weird early “Johnston Explanation Pose” with the hands splayed out like that.

They’re just jealous.

Just ignore them, Michael and Martha.

There ARE better things to do than stuff your gut with marshmallows!

C’mon, guys. Don’t make fun of Martha.

MP? So that must mean John is JP, Elly is EP, Lizzie is LP, and Phil is PP!

Big deal! He found someone better to hang out with than those jerks!

His French is really good… correct gender and everything!

I’d probably say to those jerks, “Eat your hearts out!”

The truly sad part is kids like that get older but most never grow up.

Just look at the current “leader of the free world” and you see a real life example of the problem.

No comment…Just thanks to JoyceAnn for the moments we had together they meant a lot….All boys are not such snickering buffoons, ladiesFind a good one.. even if he had a switchblade in his back pocket