For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 26, 2020

Thank goodness for speaker phone option on mobile phones in this epoque.

Even back in 1991 when this was originally published I would have said, “Hey, Mike! Did you forget you have two ears?”

Thank God for cell phones earbuds

Speakerphone helps prevent mushrooms from growing in your ears.

Speakerphones prevent private conversations too…

Earache my eye.

What year did this co m e out?

oh wow…. I sooooo remember this feeling. But when I was teen it wasn’t just the ear it was the neck from holding the cordless phone between my ear & shoulder.

Well Michael, let’s think about this and see if we can figure out the problem. This may take a while. /s

Man I do not miss those old landline phones

As someone who was a teenager in the 80s, it was my personal observation/experience that teen girls would tend to spend countless hours on the phone. Teen boys, not really.

for me it’s the left ear, and only the left ear. You see, I don’t have a right one.

At least there’s no time for a scam call to fit in there.

I had a similar complaint about my right thumb and then one day I realized how many times a day I hit the space bar.

Theses days the punchline would read “I don’t know why Dad, but my thumbs hurt!”

My hearing aids have Bluetooth.

It is due to Michael’s weird head shape.

Wait until Flo trashes the new apartment and they go after the lease holder. Or she starts running numbers out of the joint…

’50s or early ’60s Dave Berg depicted a housewife on the phone as she did all her daily tasks, head leaning over to hold it to her shoulder, mouth open. Final frame she was dressed to the nines to go out with her husband – head leaning over, mouth open.

funny

He’s a real “Captain Oblivious” isn’t he? :D