The Lockhorns by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner for February 04, 2025

They still have malls? Where are they?

“You are here; so am I.

Maybe millions of people go by.

But they all disappear from view!

And I only have eyes for you!"

The Bar at the Far end of the Mall

Hey, at least you are in a store that has a man bench for us to sit on while we wait!

Wife shopped with me tagging along. I complained I was hungry. She said “go to that sushi bar we saw in the mall while I shop.” I didn’t really look at prices, just the pictures. Sake to wash the bits down. Trying this and that. About one hour passes. Wife arrives and her eyes bug out at my food bill. Ya, I don’t get asked to shop with her any more.

That’s me as a child, sitting on a bench while my mother shopped for clothes nearby. Boooring!

☹️ poor Leroy…

left holding the (her) bag

and footing the (her) bill

I don’t blame him a bit

Move on! You aren’t a tree !

Man does this look familiar. The artist captured the mall bench experience perfectly.

Leroy, careful what you wish for.

The Lockhorns are in a Mall that actually has active stores in it? How unusual in this day, and, age.

See yesterday’s “Real Life Adventures” for additional comments.

I am very blessed. My wife HATES to shop. She makes her way through stores even more efficiently than I do!!!

I was once standing by the door in a store waiting on my wife when the person running the register asked if I needed anything. I just replied that I was waiting on my wife. She smiled and replied that yeah that area does seem to be a husband staging area.

So go walk around. She doesn’t need you and it looks like she’ll be in there for awhile yet.

I’m surprised he’s not looking at the cell phone to while the time by. I do if I’m with the wife or my sister and since I wear a hearing aid with Bluetooth if it’s a video I am watching nobody hears it, they may see the video if they’re behind me but not the audio part. I shut off the Bluetooth to the hearing aid if I’m in the car however, the Bluetooth in the car gets confused when a call comes through – I want to have the conversation through the car’s speakers.

Could be worse. You might be nowhere.

Many malls have a man-cave, i.e. arcade.

Point the way to the bar.

Poor Leroy. Serving trial…in the food court.

I love how those signs be saying you are here every time but they don’t even have a NESW thing

Anywhere else, Leroy? Like maybe a war zone?

Where’s the “husband zone,” as in the bar/brewery right by the mall entrance?

Loretta single-handedly keeps this mall in business

surely, there’s gotta be a hardware store nearby where leroy could injure himself… ☺

Said every husband dragged to a mall.

I like my husband to come with me when I shop. He has very good taste, and gives honest opinions on what I try on. He often points out things he thinks I will like. True, he is one in a million, and I’m incredibly lucky.