Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 21, 2022

Hmmm … maybe Arlo saw her modeling and decided that she was made for him?

Yup! She owes me money.

That’s a bit extreme, Arlo. I know $40 is $40, but there must be some less drastic way of getting your money back.

Hard to believe I know, but it can and does happen that way. A cousin of my mother knew she was the one on day one.

Wow, I just got a lovin’ spoonful song zinger. Do you believe in magic. lol. Is that John Sebastian in last panel?

Watch where you point that price gun.

Spoiler alert!

The Lightening Bolt!

Love the storyline title

I’m liking this story line.

Awwwwww….. It was lovely at first sight, at least for him.

I saw my husband in the doorway of the place I was working and thought, “Oh my…I’m going to marry that man!” and the rest is history. Yup, sometimes, it really does happen that way. :)

I can understand that…

About right now, I would marry someone with a full tank of gas.

Oftentimes it’s the ones who AREN’T rich, and built and gorgeous who are the easiest to get along with.

Sometimes you just know.

Well, when I was 17, I went out to a show with a mixed group of friends (Shooting Star, Hang on for your Life Tour), got home late, slurringly announced to my mom that I’d met the girl I was going to marry, and 3 years later, I did.

Had a crush on this girl in high school but thought she had a boyfriend. Years later after a divorce from a rough marriage, I had sworn off marriage and I saw my “crush” on a morning news show representing the library, she had the same last name. Hmmmm, I started checking out where she lived, etc (I knew I would marry this woman). Gave her a call, three years later we were engaged for one year and we’ve been so happy for 20+ years.

Pro tip: Broads don’t like being referred to as chicks.

My story!

That definitely culls her out of the herd….

Another eerie parallel between C & R, and A & J, except a few years earlier. By the time it came to buying art supplies, we were already married.

That’s how it happened to my husband and I….we married within a month from our first date, and were married for 44 years. Sometimes you just know!

How I met my wife: I was driving my car to pick up my dad who had dropped their car off for my mother at her place of work. Kid on a bike is looking at his gas station buddies and rides out in front of me. I ALMOST got stopped gently tapped him and he grabbed his bike and ran off pushing it. Pick up my dad and he says it’s got to be reported to the cops. Go to the station and tell them about it. They say “We know who that is” and tell me where he lives. I go there and am talking to his mother when his older sister walks into the room. Been married to that sister for 50+ years.

My wife-to-be stood me up on our first two blind dates. I proposed to her ten days after the first date she showed up for.

The bookstore had the latest! The Monarch one-line label gun was first produced in 1972.

I’ll be glad when this is over and done with. Doesn’t make sense to me…

Thirty years ago yesterday my wife and I had our first date, at a charity fundraiser. For the first time in 7 years, I saw my ex-wife. I immediately saw that for what it was and said to Gina, “On the synchronicity scale, this is a 10.” I never saw my ex-wife again after that, and Gina and I got married and have been together ever since.

Some believe in destiny, some do not.

Right or wrong, we don’t actually know what it is — if it exists.

Doesn’t stop us from believing.

I can’t wait to find out if he shaves the moustache before or after the wedding!

Jimmy has been following our comments and knows that many of us will love this storyline. We may even have given him the idea.

I suspect the ones that know right off were probably together in a previous life and are just ‘recognizing’ their true love from that past life. Since those marriages seem to last a life time, I’d say true love survives even past death and rebirth.

I’m loving this storyline. I just love a “how me met” tale. Plus my husband and I met my freshman year at college too, though about a decade after Arlo and Janis.

My wife said she knew she was going to Marry me the first time we met. She let me in on it later. of course.

Worth risking $40, I’d say…

Some enchanted evenin, you may see a stranger……who can explain it….yada, yada

Janis is looking pretty good for someone pushing (pulling?) 65.

It happened to me!

A friend of my father’s saw a woman in a nightclub sitting with her husband at a table, told the person he was with he was going to marry her someday, and he did. It broke my heart – I was six and wanted him to wait for me to grow up.

After Janis gets to know Arlo better, they’ll get married indeed.

I love that!

I never had the love at first sight happen for me, we were friends for 7 years before we started dating and then a year after that we were married ( now we are going through this horrible divorce) but I do have a friend who did experience love at first sight with her new husband. She had been married and just had her first baby but her husband was cheating on her, she found out about 3 months before the baby was due but he told her it was over and he loved her so she stayed with him but on the night the baby was born we were with them at the hospital and as soon as the baby was born he left hospital, supposedly to get something to eat because he hadn’t eaten in 20 hours, but when he got back I heard him tell his father he went to see and have dinner with his girlfriend, yes the one he supposedly broke up with. We told our friend what happened and she and baby left him and she moved back in with her parents and filed for divorce. About 4 months later, her divorce wasn’t final yet, she met this guy at a casual gathering of our religious congregation and it was instant love at first sight for both of them so as soon as her divorce was final they started dating and were married 5 months later and a year after that they had a baby and 24 years later they are still happily married.

I watched my future wife get out of her boyfriends pickup truck, at my work. I fell in love at that moment! Her brown eyes flashed at me, and I ain’t NEVER been cute!

Husband and I took a creative writing class together and then another one – as there was only one section of each class. He was dating someone else on the yearbook staff and came to the monthly birthday party. I baked the cakes. When I found out that his birthday party was that month I added his name to the cake. We became friends.

On paper we are about the last people to go together – different religions, different ethnic backgrounds, my family was “girls can do anything” & his was “girls are wives and mothers and stay home”. A shared love of movies and similar taste in music – including big bands and desire to be writers – brought us together. Dated/engaged for 6 years – at our wedding friends were betting on how many DAYS the marriage would last. 43 years later we are still married. Some years he was the major bread winners, some years I was.

Right now he is upstairs in our office working (with mental health counseling clients online) and I am in the kitchen on my laptop – that is about as far apart as we get for the last 15 or so years.

Though one negative about him – he does not like to read comics. (I got my love of same from my dad.)