For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 03, 2023

i do. so’s the wife. after watching her ineptitude at parenting, and usually leaving him bewildered, i’d say his divorcing her was a Good Thing in the end.

Lying on the couch, putting your feet on the coffee table, leaving your paper on the floor, and leaving the mug on the armrest is clearly not living. John should rename the room the couch potatoing room.

All the couches and recliners now come with cup holders for just that purpose.

John, you have to settle being banished to the basement if you insist on putting the paper on the floor and balancing a cup of coffee on the armrest. That was how the old basement couch got to beaten up – which is why Elly doesn’t want you to do it to her new couch. She won’t let you to nap on it either. Your hair oil will stain it. However, she will let you do it downstairs where the old one, the same one you napped on, sat on with the paper and coffee when it was upstairs. It’s been beaten up to your liking. Men never grasp the concept of the receiving room – which a living room is. A room for guests and an introduction to the house, like a tidy doctor’s office lobby. It is not a room to live in. Just sit nicely, chat, leave your drinks on the coffee table or an end table. No food – that’s what the kitchen is for – and the basement. Everything matches as a set. It is all for show. Now, I have a living room in my house. I decorated it with a nice real leather couch, two end tables and a cubby shelf unit with 16 bins to store stuff to stay out of sight. Two nice lamps on those end tables. Some nice wall and flat surface decors. PLUS I have a foyer. I put my antique buffet in there. All the living happens in the TV room. It’s messy, mismatched and all. Where I put the Christmas tree – not the living room where most people would. I wanna look at it while it is there when I am watching tv or watch my grandkids play.

What she wants is a ‘Showing-off’ room… ‘Living’ is to be kept out of sight.

I’m reminded of a Dave Berg comic in the late MAD Magazine.

In it, a mother was yelling at her young son for being in the living room (he was just sitting there doing nothing). She barked, “What do you think the living room is for?”

The boy replied, “Er, for people to live in?”

The b!tch then snapped, “Just goes to show how ignorant you are! The living room is NOT for living, and it’s NOT for people!”

When the boy then asked what was it for, she replied, “Company!”

Take a picture and place it on the mantle. And tell guests that this what the place looked like before the family moved in.

Elly would get on great with Dan from Amanda The Great this morning.

The Living Room isn’t for people to “live” in. It’s for company…. That’s what I’ve been told, anyway…

An example of a woman’s idea of a punchline joke. Like usual it doesn’t make any sense. But I suppose there are hundreds of women rolling on the floor in fits of laughter right now.

Friend’s livingroom furniture was all wrapped in plastic and you weren’t allowed in it unless you were the Bishop or something.

You can in mine. Come on over John, we’ll watch the game and mess up the couch.

and why not? :\

Hospitals have a dying room.

Coasters and covers over the arms of the couch, Elly. As long as he takes his shoes off before he puts his feet on the coffee table, there’s no harm done.

The Living Room is for living. If you need a pristine room to be your “clean mecca,” the place to entertain guests, and house your family mathoms, that’s a Parlor.

A living room is for living, quiet, peaceful, restful living. Our living room has no television in it. There is a Bose Wave Radio for music, but the television is in the Family/rec room where it belongs. The living room is where we entertain guests, sit and read quietly, listen to the radio and gather for family events. It also explains why you will often find a living room in close proximity to a formal dining room, for they often share the same general purpose.

You can always go grandma mode and wrap everything in Saran Wrap

Forgot the most important thing; the big screen TV

Then it’s not living.

Elly is using John’s money for the furniture. John has the right to do what he wants to it.

Sure hope Elly is saving something for a rainy day. Trouble ahead.

From a fortune cookie: “Wouldn’t it be ironic to die in the living room?”

Unlike Elly, I bet Gordon is completely happy with his place where the bedroom, living room, parlo(u)r, drawing room, dining room, and kitchen are all one room filled with found/salvaged stained and beat up furniture.

guess that’s life

It true. Men are from Mars and women from Venus.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight here…this is the War Room :)

HUH? Living like having one. The parlor is the one just for show.

then in where can he do it, El?

Yeah. That’s for the Man Cave in your new basement that you just had to rebuild….

Ottomans are for putting your feet up. Not the coffee table. Keep your dirty shoes and stinky socks off the coffee table! You wouldn’t let the kids do that, why should you?

What John needs is a man cave.

doesn’t really matter what John wants…the wife will get her way

We had a big discussion about this one Thanksgiving. Some of my female cousins didn’t even want recliners in their living rooms. I said “Hey, my COUCH reclines. I want to be comfortable when I watch television, not stylish.” The men loved me.