Edge City by Terry and Patty LaBan for June 14, 2022

You shot your mouth off, Len. You’re on your own.

Len is not “woke” and will be all the way asleep if that bottle connects.

If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

The 2 women chasing him need the kick, too get that upset because somebody does not like a movie.

This time I agree with Len.

Some men are slow to learn that the hole in their foot is often self inflicted.

Len suffers from foot in the mouth disease!

At the very least, he might learn to keep his mouth shut. Being extremely rude, never mind whether he liked the movie or not.

Sometimes one has the learn the hard way, Abby.

That said, I am sort of annoyed at how the comic is spinning this all in such a way to vindicate Abby, because she wasn’t right about the matter either, and Len was right to be annoyed with her about it. Just because he’s not great at having tact sometimes doesn’t mean having him shut up and not say anything that’s not preapproved first is the solution either.

Particularly as the incident that started all of this really was just an honest-to-gosh mistake from not knowing the whole picture, and this incident here started just from Len voicing his honest opinion about something, and the others being unable to take the criticism caused it to escalate from there. Really, there’s some blame to be shared all around here.

There’s also the point that I think Abby’s overlooking—that Len might be so bad at having the needed tact precisely BECAUSE she hasn’t been letting him have the chance to learn for himself what that entails by constantly trying to stop him without instructing him.

Abby: “Hey, Len, you’re on your own!”