For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 14, 2012

And so the scamming begins.

Then you don’t get any more $2.

This sums up childhood friends pretty well.

Is Gordon’s last name Gekko?

Oh, Mike, work, save your money, and buy your own skates!

psychlady has it right, or get something even cooler and charge Gordon more.

I can’t believe his parents won’t buy him skates. It’s not a big investment. When we were kids (a long long long time ago) everyone had skates and believe me, we were not rich.

This comic explains the mind-set of your typical used-car sales man. :D

He had a future in automobile repairs. It stinks to do that to your best friend though.

Isn’t unregulated free enterprise great?

THAT JERK

Even growing up, I was too cheap to fall for this!

I would never have charged my friends like that. I would have just passed my skates over. I’m the better person! Broke, but the better person.

Report him to the authorities of fair weights and measures.

Liar, cheat, con artist, finger pointer looks like a future politician.

future used car salesman…?

I agree. Michael should continue to work for those roller skates. The boy is now 8 or 9. He’s old enough for some responsibility. I hope Gordon’s parents hear of his scamming deals.

They probably put him up to it.

Well, i would still go to him because he is a better saleman.

You see?!?!?! What did I tell you yesterday?!?!? At 8 years of age, Gordon’s already a scam artist! It’s a wonder he grew up to be an honest(?) businessman . . . because I would have guessed that, based on this little con he’s trying to pull on his (supposedly) good friend, his future home was in a prison somewhere for being a Bernie Madoff wanna-be . . . or worse!!!!!

Mom & Dad gave him his start in business. like young Mr. Romney.