For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 10, 2019

The other boys are so babe hungry.

I was right – they did come and heckle him. Yeah, they sure changed their tunes quickly.

You have to understand that in Milborough, the fictional city where this story takes place, there are strict laws about the places that women are allowed to eat. It turns out that one of the places is at the local hot dog stand. Now that Michael’s friends know that, they want to work at a hot dog stand. If they lived in a normal town, they would not be so impressed that girls eat fast food. They might have even gone to a fast food place and might have seen that girls ate there as often as boys did. But they don’t live in a normal town. They live in a town where the opportunity to work in a food place that serves women is rare and something to be envied. Now they know that Michael is super lucky and has a great job, even though they were acting like jerks and pointing and laughing at him before, because they thought he worked in a place where women did not buy food. They know better now.

I figured Michael would soon like this job. this was so many years ago I forgot this story.

Please wake me when Walt the Weasel is arrested for his chicanery. :(

Ah, Puberty. Not quite a man but still a boy.

There’s usually at least one good thing with every job.

They ridicule him until they see it’s a great way to pick up chicks

I guess Lawrence is not aware of his identity yet.

Lynn’s Comments:

My summer job was always in my parents’ jewellery store. My main duty was to dust and wipe fingerprints off the glass counters. I was quite envious of a friend of mine who got a job serving ice cream at one of the malls. She had a cute uniform and was always talking to kids our age. It was a very busy, social place. Later, when I told her how much I wished I’d had her job, she said that after standing all day digging hard ice cream out of the freezer, her back ached, her feet hurt and her arms had never ached so badly in her life! …The grass is always greener on the other side!

Source: fborfw.com/strip_fix

Isn’t that Lawrence who said that, and isn’t he going to reveal he’s gay?

ONLY if it’s all beef!

THAT didn’t take long!!!!

It’s a chick magnet!

Saw it coming Yesterday!!

I told some of my students, “Don’t tease that person. They might be your boss someday, assuming they hire you.”

Do not recall anyone laughing at me when I was at work mostly because they were all working someplace.

Phrasing.

Every job is measured by the perks offered.

As long as it doesn’t turn into the film “Sleepers”! Yikes!

In panel 2, it looks like she has a bikini top. In Panel 3, it looks like she has a tube top.

I was waiting for this, it had to happen, nice day always means nice girls…lol

They should be working together, such as starting a band where Michael is a construction worker, Brian is an Indian chief, Gordon is a sailor, and Lawrence is a motorbike rider. The name could be something like “The Townsfolk”, “The City Dwellers”, something like that.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Anybody else out there reminded of Butterbean and Susie’s old song I Want a Hotdog for My Roll?