For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 21, 2024

A lesson to be learned here…don’t farm out your dirty work. You want to break up with your boyfriend, DO IT YOURSELF.

Ah—I remember this from the past, Elizabeth’s mood swings. Probably brought on by hormone fluctuation.

No date for the big Halloween dance, oops. A bad timing error, but maybe fixable yet.

No boyfriend and no girlfriend.

Need we remind you that this is entirely your fault?

Don’t be slamming doors and crashing around my house like that you little snot.

Ellie – “Oh, just a wild guess.”

It’s her fault

Mothers are psychic that way.

Liz might be a teen but there’s still a bit of terrible two’s left in her.

I had two sons, now I have two granddaughters. Girls don’t get into nearly as much trouble as boys, which is nice. But OMG the drama!!

She’s just testing the fine carpentry work in the house

Subtlety personified.

Nothing a little kick boxing wouldn’t fix. Kicking and punching a target can work off a lot of frustration and anger.

Ah, Livabeff… Delightful combination of adolescent histrionics, hormones and self-pity, and the sour scowl she inherited from the Great Mother, wrapped up in one graceless package. Just delightful!

Elizabeth was trying to quietly leave the house yesterday. Now she is as stealthy as a herd of orange elephants.

Dawn and Pawn!

Liz has to realize her mom is pretty good at picking up the “subtle” hints she’s giving off. After all, Elly was a young girl once, too….and who knows, may have experienced something similar.

Just a hunch.

A slammed door is worth 1,000 words.

Liz is forgetting was SHE that asked Candace to carry the break-up message to Anthony. And now Anthony is going to the Halloween Dance with Candace ! It’s called Karma…

Ah yes, that stage in life where Elizabeth is old enough for boys but not too old to throw a tantrum.

In the corporate world, when women behave like Elizabeth, they’re too emotional or hormonal. When men act like that, they’re passionate & assertive. Quite the double standard.

I’m so grateful I’ll never have to go through raising a teenager again.

Wonder if this story line twist will lead to Elizabeth learning a valuable lesson, and accepting the reality of what she put in motion; creating a modern day John and Priscilla, albeit with a revision to the original story.

Good job Liz, I’m sure all of that will make everything better.

Where are you,Edgar? Somebody needs comforting.

Everybody has different ideas of love

Elly loves John

Elizabeth loves Anthony

Michael loves Lawrence

Candace loves Anthony

The Enjos love Farley

Ooga Farley!

Booga Farley!

Googa Farley!

Mooga Farley!

The agony of defeat ! ;-)

It is easier to raise Dawn. Her parents have one easy question for her problems:

Enjos: You doctor yet?

Dawn: No.

Enjos: Why you no doctor yet??

I think it was the sound of the woodwork being slammed.

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Elizabeth can get her mind off Anthony by starting something new…like her schoolwork! :P

There is no point in suffering in silence unless there is someone around to hear you.

we walked into daughter’s house with granddaughter fretting about some teenage issue, and i quipped, “aah! that time of the month, eh?” to which she said, “Mama! how does he know??” my wife was laughing, near peed herself.

Girl, just say it.