For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 02, 2020

oh, you’re a big help already, Fiona, when you want your employer to work by YOUR schedule

A peach. She’s a real peach.

More like the pits to me!

My dear Fiona Don’t let the door hit you were the sun don’t shine on your way out of it!

What a slug… errrrrrrr

(sung) “Hit the road, Aunt. And don’tcha come back no more, no more, no more! Hit the road Aunt, and don’tcha come back no more!”

And yet, if Fiona was an attractive character, there is nothing she is saying that implies she won’t help out. She’s just not a “stay up all night” kind of helper. When we had newborns and grandparents came over to help out, they didn’t come and stay the night. They helped out during the day time.

As proof of Fiona’s independence, she has managed to score a cookie and coffee off Elly without any effort on Elly’s part. Already Fiona has figured out the only things you actually eat in Elly’s house that won’t make you sick with nausea.

Fiona is aces by me.

I repeat, motel. With 10 minute visits daily…….at the motel.

Throw the bum out.

Yeah, she wakes up at noon; doubtless, it may take her an hour or two to get up, get herself motivated to actually stir & get out of bed. Then she’ll have to have someone else fix her breakfast (HA!), feed part of it to that mangy moggy (cat with no pedigree), then complain about having a delicate back (Dr. Smith?) & “need” to go back to bed with instructions to have someone bring her lunch & quite possibly dinner in her room! AND a parting shot would be if she said something like, “I hope that kid doesn’t cry all night and keep me awake.”

Well, that’s a big help! (NOT!)

Amazing job on the art of her Blouse.

Lynn’s Comments:

Aunt Fiona is loosely based on someone I know.

The first panel shows April is scared of her. With that face I would be too.Good to see she stays up all night , if she sleeps till noon.

What do you need with Fiona when you’ve got Michael?

She’s wonderful. It wasn’t until my second time reading all the comics all the way through that she (spoilers) basically took advantage of this family for a week.

P 4: “…uh, John?…either she and the cat goes or me and the kids go….take your pick….you have 3 minutes…”

Humm, just in time for lunch. Who is feeding the cat?

This storyline is so painful to read; I just can’t do it

Is everyone this polite like Elly is? (or as dumb) I would have a heart-to-heart and tell the woman just what is expected of her and why she was here in MY house. I know I would.

Send Farley in at 7:00 AM, to check on her. LOL

Fiona is a person’s worst nightmare come to life.

Send her ass packing….now!

She would have been set straight by now. Of course, first she would be in whatever guest quarters I had arranged or she could go to a hotel. No strange pets in the house, my animals live in my house (3 cats currently), you are only a visitor. My house, my rules. I prefer to stay at hotels when visiting family.

(sigh)

The best way she could help is to just stay out of the way.

Noon? I’ll just put the April Alarm in your room when I get up…

She’s got to go!

Fish and house guests smell after three days. (Mark Twain?)

Fiona has no shame. Don’t we all have relatives like her?

Fiona is someone I would have no problem with “social-distancing”. Six feet, eight feet, ten feet — not enough. And, dear God, if anyone should wear a mask … We have all known people like Fiona and have dealt with them in our own way. She is just another story line in the strip, perplexing as it is. This too shall end.

Aunt Fiona is helpful alright, about as helpful as mammary glands on a male hog.

I have several family members who act even worse. They lie, they steal and they have assaulted me. That’s why they are banned from my property.

Should have done an interview, John.

Oh hell no she got to go Up by noon no no

Biiiiig help.

I’m gonna start skipping past this one until this story line is done. It’s not remotely funny or entertaining.

That’s perfect then. She can take the night shift!