Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 29, 2021

Maybe Kim’s new employer needs somebody in marketing.

Disappointing that Kim is just another ‘boomers should get over themselves’ person…

I think we boomers need a reality check, it’s not all about us.

They’ll always have Paris, I suppose.

How about “Both of us buy a lot of round-trip flights from Seattle to Paris”?

I know it all works out later, but right now it appears all Mike will have left is flights of fancy!

Or one of us finds a doppelgänger.

anyone know how long the flight from seattle to paris is? I flew to seattle once and it was pretty much and all day thing.

Tickets to Europe are surprisingly cheap if you do it right.

And then some of us boomers are also hacker geeks.

I don’t like her. Please forgive me.

Somehow, I just knew that would be the answer. Distant relationships are one thing; asymmetric relationships quite another.

Boomers rule, the rest drool.

Narrator Voice: The Boomers do not get over themselves.

If she’s got the better-paying job, I hope she’s willing to pay for some of those tickets. As a geek, she should see the rationality of that.

She said “to” Mike. Not “from”

Yeah, well, if “getting over ourselves” involves becoming as self-centered, cold and careless of others as this chick, I’ll stand pat, thanks.

me thinks this story is meaningless drivel.

Amsterdam

“geek love”

Does that constitute her saying that she loves Mike? Because that can be kind of a significant moment in a relationship.

Incidentally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Love