For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 05, 2023

No barcodes yet?

Elly is still computer phobic after years of working in library. I suppose that’s what happens whenever someone tries to show you how to work the computer and your hair falls over your eyes so you can’t see what they are doing.

“All I hear is the slight buzzing inside my head”.

If so much info is in computers’ memories, why are there still those overstuffed file drawers?

From Lynn’s Comments: Yup. The buck stops at the front desk. There was a reason my dad never wanted me to handle the cash. I was much better at sales!

I worked retail for 5 years. I never learned how to use a cash register.

Todays cash registers are idiot proof. McDonalds made it where you just push the button that looks like a big mac and your done. That is why they hire idiots, the handicapped and the elderly collecting social security, when there are millions of smart MEXICANS out of work walking into the country.

They put a few more keys since you used one of these. And where is the cents key?

IS that a computer? Or a cash register….

Wow! Today’s comic strip is showing its age! I can barely even remember the sound of the clickety clack of the cashier pushing the buttons on the cash register!

Nowadays they just slide the packages over a built in scanner and all you hear is the sound of the electronic beep.

taught my then 85 year old mother-in-law to be a hacker……

Don’t panic, Elly. In a few days, you’ll have the system down pat.

My Honey got a smart phone 2 years ago, She loves to look at instagram & other things. But refuses to send or read a text and the GPS? On no, that’s not gonna happen.

She misses the index cards from the library

Welcome to the wonderful world of computers, Elle…

Mad Magazine’s Don Martin would be proud of the sound effects.

Once you’ve seen 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY,you’re scarred for life

Lynn’s halfhearted attempts at updating the strip through minor changes to dialogue that gives away their original run date should also include redrawing computers like that.

Ellie doesn’t know how to run a computer? I would have thought she used one for the libraries flyers.