The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 05, 2023

Hattie a loss

IF they invite here again.

If the parts were reversed, it would have been a tragedy.

His being born on the 4th of July is bad, but it is even worse being born on Christmas Day. People seem to forget you expect both a birthday card and a Christmas card! My advice, if your friends forget your birthday on that day and are caught up just in the holiday commercialism, it is time to dump them!

Son of the Born Loser, no doubt.

And she’ll forget next year as well.

Wilberforce, it isn’t in Hurricane’s nature to apologize for much of anything.

Spoken like a true Torontonian.

It must be nice though to have fireworks on your Birthday

but I thought you were watching fireworks… having a blast on your birthday dependence. :\

Hattie, you’re supposed to say “Happy Belated Birthday” and apologize for forgetting!

Yep, there is always next year…..to a point!

There’s always next year…. but it’s not guaranteed.

But you better not forget HER birthday!!!

They act like a married couple.

There wasn’t anything in it for her.

A fourth of July Birthday is definitely hard to forget. That’s why the wife and I chose the 4th of July for our marriage date so many years back. No excuse for not remembering. Though, I still put it on my calendar. I take no chances. As for Hattie though, very bad form, which is her trademark…..

Not much more Hattie can say…unless she has access to Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine.

When I read this, It occurred to me that the dialog could equally be enacted by Gladys and Brutus. That led me to wonder if a peek into the future might reveal the marriage of the grown-up Wilberforce and Hattie. Like father, like son?