For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 28, 2022

RHAPSODY IN THE RAAAIINNNE……!

know of any late-night car washes (aside from the one Mike’s going to)?

There ain’t no telling who you might meet a movie star or maybe even an indigenous Chief working at the car wash working a t the car wash yah

Anything for more time

A lot can happen at the car wash

When Rhetta says “really?” in response to Mike asking “[Do] you know how to get to talk to each other?” does that mean she never heard how to talk to others? No wonder why cashiers are so quiet.

My second child was conceived going through the car wash. Growing up he was terrified of rain…

Do you think she’ll cling to you in fear as the car goes through the wash, Mike??

I didn’t think any car wash was open that late..

Mike you idiot. You are supposed to make a wrong turn, get out in the country and run out of gas. Then you have all the time you need. When you want to drive back to town, you try the starter, the car starts and you say “Gee I guess we weren’t out of gas, the car just stalled”

The car wash was the BEST place especially if it was when you can sit in the car and go through it.. Total privacy! Just be done kissing by the time the blowers start.

A cheap version of the tunnel of love?

Make sure the windows are up…. ALL the way up.

As Michael and Rhetta sit there in the car in the carwash in Michaels Heart…………….

I’m singing in the rain

Just singing in the rain

What a glorious feelin’

I’m happy again

I’m laughing at clouds

So dark up above

The sun’s in my heart

And I’m ready for love

Let the stormy clouds chase

Everyone from the place

Come on with the rain

I’ve a smile on my face

I walk down the lane

With a happy refrain

Just singin’,

Singin’ in the rain

Dancin’ in the rain

Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah

Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah

I’m happy again!

I’m singin’ and dancin’ in the rain!

I’m dancin’ and singin’ in the rain…

Car washes are like Niagara Falls. It’ll make her think of honeymooners and love and romance. Unless she’s one of those “slowly I turn” types.

She either grew or he shrunk in panel three.

I got them steadily depressin low down mind messin working at the car wash blues. J. Croce

The first ride home is not the place to get outwardly romantic. You are still mostly a stranger – at this stage friendly is good.

Where I live, there are 24 hour car washes. It is convenient for me. The newer ones that are opening aren’t 24 hours which is depressing. Michael needs a Mazda RX-7.

I don’t know that either. I guess I live a sheltered life. So at least he gets to be with her longer now. At least the kid is thinking (for a change).

Get the deluxe wax job.

I’m thinking of that Chuck Berry song, My Ding-a-Ling, where he couldn’t unfasten his safety belt to make out with his girlfriend

Considering Lorne would drop a dime on Michael for looking too poor and uneducated to afford a sports car (thus evidence that he stole it), now Lorne has more ammunition to throw at Michael. He can have Michael arrested for kidnapping Rhetta.

How about the stuffy army officer who invited a woman over to listen to his new album of John Phillip Sousa marches?

In panel 2 it does appear that there is a back seat in John’s car.

And on a lucky day, you can find “Daddy Rich” at the wash…Name the movie….

Now….that is something spur of the moment…a romantic car wash?

Romantic indeed

Hope it is a drive thru so they can talk longer.