For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 14, 2025

Liar, liar……

It is official, Elly. You are gullible. You should know better – he is rushing you, insisting on a decision in few minutes and was clearly exaggerating about the benefits of the time share. You should recognize that all he is interested in is getting his commission.

“It’s hard not to trust a guy whose mother’s name is Elly!!!” What?

Oh John. Is that really the excuse you are going to use to justify buying the timeshare? Do you think Elly will go along with that bizarre excuse?

Oh, I hope the Patterson’s heard that and now realize what a phony he is! I hope they’ll raise such a ruckus, that the police will be summoned and he’ll be arrested. And if not the Patterson’s, then someone else he swindled. Stay tuned, folks!

They have ten minutes to decide on whether or not to invest several thousand dollars in a scheme that could be questionable?? Forget it!

“Phyllis? Why did you say that name!?”

His mother’s name is actually “embarrassed that my son has turned into a complete scumbag“.

Wow. What a sleaze…

We thought the same thing about the guy who sold us our time share. Nice friendly guy. Ha, they go to school to learn that.

He is lying through his teeth alright. Time to bolt.

They can’t be this gullible, can they?

In a few years they’ll be helping a prince in Sudan cash his 100 million dollar check at their bank

These two can’t be that gullible.

Buy the timeshare and you can never get out.

This trick is as old as the world…

Oh for heaven’s sake! Just say no! $30,000 is a lot of money even for a dentist!

When sales-people come to my door and start with the old “How are you this beautiful day? Oh, I see you have a ”, I look at them with a blank expression and say “State your business.” It sets the tone for the remainder of the conversation – usually a short one.

does he have a white belt

RUN!!!

And is his father’s name Donald?

John’s not a very good dentist if he can’t judge Blair’s character by his teeth!

So much for being convincing.

Put ‘Blair’ to work in Minneapolis after a snow storm……‘cause he is great ’at shoveling’ and not just snow ! ! ! !

Elly Phyllis?

Reminded me of Kurt Russell in Used Cars (funny movie!) where he meets various couples looking at cars

Navajo couple

Hello, Rudy Two Feathers. How are you?

Polish couple

Welcome, Rudy Polanski!

Irish couple

Ah, Rudy O’Halloran. Top o’ the morning to you!

There are entire law firms, dedicated to breaking timeshare leases. In most cases, it’s a total scam.

We need to remember that when this strip was first published timeshares were a new thing and people hadn’t learned to be wary.

He probably sells used cars as a side hustle.

Blair – “And she has diarrhea of the mouth just like me, I mean she’s a sweet talker just like you.”

I thought John and Elly had more common sense than this.

It’s all bullsh*t — please don’t bite!

yep, all he is is a sales person whose lying through his teeth. :p

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Don’t sign anything. A time share means you are tied to a specific destination at a specific time of the year. Not good if you like to travel to different places.

there is no way that they are going to fall for this, but I’m disappointed in them that they almost are.

This is why I didn’t even last a year in car sales. Upon hire the dealership sent me to their corp. HQ to take a class on how to slam folks into a deal. After “graduating” I didn’t do anything they taught me. I then proceeded to break the company record for single day sales at 9 cars and then closed the dealership’s very first fleet sale to an electronics company. I then quit when I decided on which university I wanted to spend my G.I. Bill tuition on. If anything, the experience taught how to negotiate a major purchase and how important it is to treat people with respect.

I can’t believe John is naive enough to call him “a nice, honest guy”!!

Just a perfect con-artist.

Wow! Gullible is not the word. First sentence out of the guy’s mouth and would have made my exit. I thought of all sorts of things one should know before signing: financial security of the property; mortgages on the place; insurance; maintenance, who pays for what in the event of an Act of God, etc.

Don’t buy into it

His Mother’s name is Ma Barker

Ah declare Rufus…look like this call for the shortcut

RUN…….

Boy, is he a bad judge of character

I think it’s relatable, especially when it first ran in the ’90’s. I would guess most of us who even stayed near a hotel by a beach was accosted by someone trying to sell you a time share. We did go to one in the Bahamas in 2010, but it wasn’t so high pressure. The one I went to in Hollywood, FL was crazy. My dad was living there & he told us to go to get the portable tape player (it was around 1982-uh- I’m so old!) so we did, got the player but not the time share. The guy was mad; why would I need a time share here if my dad lives here?!)

ba dum tss

The naivete that the Pattersons have shown this week is pretty alarming. I think this salesman is too transparently sleazy for anyone to fall for him pitch in real life. But I do get that if the Pattersons had taken one look at him and said “Yeah, no,” we wouldn’t have a storyline for this week.

I had hoped that whatever adventure they got up to on this trip would be more interesting than sitting through a time share presentation. But apparently Lyn Johnston had an axe to grind.

Slime is not restricted to just politics.

I don’t remember this story line but all I can say is, Don’t Do It!!! There are people making good money right now extracting people from time share agreements.