For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 09, 2023

awww, man!

One under the front wheel?

Sounds like Elly’s been getting suggestions from Johnny Knoxville and his crew.

I remember a game by Ideal called “Mouse Trap”. You, the player, had to construct a “Rube Goldberg” type machine to trap a mouse.

Which one was the fatal blow? I vote for the crunch.

Living in the rural countryside, we get mice and squirrels in the car. They chew wires, make nests and generally are destructive little critters.

I was driving home last spring and as I tried to accelerate, the car just stopped. We could not get it running and had to have it towed. When it arrived at the service centre and they opened the hood, they found the BIGGEST squirrel/mouse nest that they said they had ever seen.

Now, I generally drive the car every two to three days, so I have NO idea how long that nest had been there.

My husband told me that’s what I get for not putting the car in the garage.

Well, the car has been in the garage for weeks now, as I have not gone out by myself due to illness, and do you know what I found yesterday? Mouse poop on the front seat.

My husbands garage theory blown out of the water…..

We had a mouse die in our car one summer, and couldn’t find it, so we took the car to the mechanic. He told us it would cost over $1,000 (this was in the 90s, so it would be a LOT more now) to open the dash because of the airbags. “You live where you can leave the windows open at night. Eventually the smell will go away.” Many moons later, I opened the ash tray for something, and there was the mouse, belly up, in all his funky glory.

I guess Elly forgot to warn him…

She could have just put a snake or cat in the car.

Everyone knows, or ought to, that a displaced house mouse will always go for the front wheel.

and he didn’t get informed… sounds like my family at times too. :}

I’m glad I didn’t have anything in my mouth when I read the last panel!

untill you find it, DON’T park in the garage! When you get in and out he can slip out and back into the house!

Mouse problems can cause problems.

Why is Elly squinting at Michael in the second panel?

Holy crap……….

A commercial for Rice Crispies

Elizabeth could have dodged a bullet without lying to her mother, as she did when she ruined the milk when Elly sent her on an errand. All she had to say was this:

Elly: “Elizabeth, open the cage and let him go!”

Elizabeth: “I opened the cage and he got out. See?”

Elizabeth shows empty trap to Elly

Elly: “Thank you. How hard was that? Now let’s get out of here.”

The best laid plans of mice and women…

How can you lose a mouse in a small enclosed space like a car?

Also,when a human is determined to prove its superior intelligence by declaring war on an animal,why do you always think the animal will win?

So Elly didn’t tell John about any of the mousetraps in her car? Now we know who’s a sore loser about not winning that pillow fight the other night.

Those sound effects! I have a sudden urge to watch reruns of Batman…..

LOLOL — Poor John!

That mouse is going to be very upset with John’s driving. Very upset, indeed!

You may have heard of the man who rigged his shed so that if someone entered it; a gun would fire. This sounds a lot like what Elly is doing. As it turned out, an intruder entered the shed (who later fully admitted his intent to rob it), and was shot by the booby trap. He suffered a major injury and had expensive medical bills. He sued the owner of the shed. Does his case have merit?