Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 03, 2016

I do not believe that this conversation has anything to do with Gunther’s mother, or Luanne and Quill.

I believe that Gunther ran the conversation with Bernice through in his mind a dozen times in his mind before he set foot in the coffee shop. Rather than living in the moment and letting the conversation take its natural course.

I believe that Gunther saw Bernice as an actor in a play that he was scriptwriting rather than as a independent human being with the right to her own motivations.

Then, when the conversation did not go according the direction that he assumed that it would he started to panic and threw Tiffany under the metaphorical bus. This was bad, but he is probably not even 20 years of age yet. Young adults make these sort of mistakes.

His main problem is that he was not talking with Bernice. And, now he realizes that his fantasy relationship has no basis in shared feelings. He is hurt and immature.

But, again, he is young and still has a lot of growing up to do. His trip to Peru helped, but he is not there yet. First step is to stop living his life in his mind and start living it in the real world. And to start treating other people as people instead of categorizing them as mental equals and mental inferiors.

His rash comments about Tiffany will, no doubt, come back to bite him in the butt sometime soon.