There were warning signs (like forgetting apartment and phone numbers). I regret seeing that in hindsight. I have no idea what to do going forward because I'm pretty sure that her daughter only sees me as 'guy who gets Mom wound up.'
How I heard about it isn't much better. Someone who knows my phone number tells me I couldn't have been psychic when she dropped the bomb on me. She could have easily told me earlier but it just slipped her mind.
I'm almost ready to congratulate John for waking his wife up for absolutely no reason because he has a thought in his head he wants to articulate. Turnabout is fair play.
You have changed my perspective. This is not a comic strip about John looking lovingly parental at his children on the night before Christmas, but instead it is a story about John wandering around the house in the middle of the night wondering which person he should wake up and talk to. Unfortunately for Elly, he picks her.
The second to last time we get to compare the colouring of 2024:
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I am sorry to hear about your sister. That sounds really tough.
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There were warning signs (like forgetting apartment and phone numbers). I regret seeing that in hindsight. I have no idea what to do going forward because I'm pretty sure that her daughter only sees me as 'guy who gets Mom wound up.'
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Hopefully her daughter can engage with you to help and avoid the whole "wound up" part.
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I agree with howtheduck, I'm so sorry to hear this. My grandmother had dementia, it's awful.
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I'm almost ready to congratulate John for waking his wife up for absolutely no reason because he has a thought in his head he wants to articulate. Turnabout is fair play.
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You have changed my perspective. This is not a comic strip about John looking lovingly parental at his children on the night before Christmas, but instead it is a story about John wandering around the house in the middle of the night wondering which person he should wake up and talk to. Unfortunately for Elly, he picks her.
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She's retconned everyone's age (except April's).
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Yes, I am trying to remember if there was anything previous to establish John as older than he ends up in 3 years.
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The October 21, 1997 strip had John saying that he would be turning 50 "in a few months," which would have placed his birth year as 1948.
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oh for fuck's sakes. sometimes people have to get divorced and it's better to do that than stay in a rotten marriage
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And sometimes, people never find anyone and aren't looking to begin with.
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and sometimes they're looking and still don't find anyone because they're crazy and lousy looking.
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Considering Lynn and Rod divorced in 2007, I'll bet this strip hits Lynn differently these days.
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