Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 24, 2020

treasure your memory while you still can

Memories last a life time treasure them while you can.

It’s little conversations like this that define a long-term marriage!

How about loss of short term memory?

How does he talk with a toothbrush fully in his mouth ??

You got it all, Frank. And, she doesn’t even let the gray hair show through.

At least he doesn’t have to take his teeth out to clean ’em.

Moony University?

I would have added a fourth frame: Frank looks crotchety at Nancy and says, “How come YOU’RE not getting old??”

It is those crazy patterns on Frank’s shirts. They are slowly driving him mad.

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As an aside, I wonder how their toilet paper situation is?

Oh, yeah – you da man, Frank.

Your wife still looks like a supermodel. Get over it and be happy.

You only feel old when she looks old.

Your memory does not last forever Frank but I remember a lot of people who had short term memory loss back when I was in college: they were the stoners who were baked everyday and the guys who were trying to imitate Bluto from Animal House and go on a blackout whenever they went out to the bars…. Since Frank does not look like he is Dan Draper from Mad Men (minimum 3 martini lunches) I’d say our boy is getting old but on the bright side his wife is a looker……

Why is he asking? He’s not sure those things mean he’s old?

been there…done that…have a truckload of the t shirts…

Same thing has been going on for me since about I was 10.

You start loosing short term memory early, around 30, but other parts of your brain improve

You’re old enough to KNOW Better, Frank.

Count your Blessings.

Besides, You’d want to “stick around” anyway.

Your “youthful” wife is about a heartbeat away from putting a certain (former?) Fuse customer into a head lock. ;)

Enjoy getting old, Frank. Many are denied the privilege.

I think getting old should be handled by the young; you know, those who think they are invulnerable and immortal. Let us mature ones enjoy our maturity….As if..

Frank is always so self-absorbed. Its always a me me me world for him. I would find that really annoying.

Why should he care about his old age? He’s still got a beautiful wife and she’s still with him.

Yes Frank. They are.

Age is a state of mind. If you succumb to whatever bromide says, “At this age, you will do such and such”, then down you go. Fight back! It could well be basic training for the road ahead….

At least short term memory loss is not a sign of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s actually a pretty normal occurrence. Lots of people of all ages experience forgetting someone’s name or if they’ve told you a story. It’s when you forget how to actually do things like drive properly, or where you live or what year it is that you have real concerns. My heart goes out to everyone who has experienced this in life. It’s very sad.

And don’t forget that some forms of dementia are caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain. A CPAP machine worn at night along with weight loss, if necessary, can work wonders. And be careful your loved ones aren’t taking too many conflicting medications. Sometimes that can bring on scary memory loss symptoms, too. God Bless!

My great grandma is having issues with that.

Another marriage where the spouses are each other’s ‘soft place’. NOT!

Does she not ever get tired of putting him down?

Instead of “hey handsome” or “c’mere tiger”, the two most common things my wife says to me is “you already asked that” or “you already told me that”.

Middle-aged heterosexual white men, husbands and fathers, the ones who do the heavy lifting, run the businesses, make the economy work, bring home the paycheck, support their families, protect their children, maintain their homes and pay the bills, those are the only ones who are fair game for any and all petty insults. Maybe it’s because they are the only ones who can take it without having a screaming, profanity-laced meltdown.

It is good that our eyesight gets worse as we get older. So we can’t see how awful we look.

Add wisp of hair on top.

In terms of memory loss Frank doesn’t have it nearly as bad as Bernice, who has a brother she completely forgot about.

He said the same thing last night—that means he gets points for remembering all four things on the list!

Where’s the toilet paper?

Short-term memory loss is aggravating, and a sign of the brain aging, but it does without more, mean someone is suffering from dementia, or is descending into Alzheimer’s. It is pretty common actually, and can be aided and abetted by early life style choice, like smoking up Peru, or keeping the distillery or beer brewer profitable. -:) Behavior changes, such as being unable to do what came easily cognitively before, like understanding why a bill has to be paid, or not knowing how to get back home after going somewhere are closer signs of mental deterioration, than simply forgetting what one did the day before. Quick how many here can remember what they had for breakfast yesterday, much less this morning? Give old Frank a break, there is nothing wrong with him, but getting ruefully older. Nancy’s teasing is sweet, and loving, and by the way she just doesn’t stop being hot. Sort of what thing Gunther and Bets would be if they were long married.

What were we talking about?

You Old Farts can get off my lawn, too.

Hey, lighten up, Nancy. Frank may be curmudgeonly, but he’s not crotchety—at least, not yet!

While searching older Luann episodes, I saw Tiffany kissing TJ.Hey, a new storyline with TJ and Tiffany in a romantic relationship would explode the fans.

Bring back TJ to the forefront!