Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 04, 2012

Jan wants to use her cell phone to call the new family constantly to make sure everything is alright

Well Gene IS her baby.

“Would it kill them to call?”…….My kids say that their Mother goes “from zero to Jewish in 1.6 seconds”.

I know it’s hard Janis, but you have to give them time to adjust as a new family. How often did you call your parents when you first married Arlo? Don’t turn into “Momma” or “Cathy’s mom!”

Somewhat a little obtuse today!

I know I wish my Mother had never learned about texting when I went to college. My Father complained about how many texts I used while in Madison, and I was able to show him that more than half were from my Mom. LOL

Oh,oh! VERIZON/FIOS is pushing home monitoring aps.

Not yet anyhow.

Thanks for the help understanding today. I thought Arlo was trying to sneeze and Janis was………I didn’t know what.

This is four or five days of moping since the wedding.

I don’t remember her calling all the time when he was still single.

…or perceptive readers…

had to get the right inflection on “ah ah” – then it was funny

I call my 91 yr old mother once a week (she lives 250 miles away) and I casually let my adult children know. I realize how lucky I am to have a mother that old I can call and who can respond. I think they’ll figure it out about the same time I did…and hopefully pass it on to their kids. But, of course, we (their mother and I) do still call them occasionally.

finale: As the author of How to Be a Jewish Mother wrote: “One does not have to be Jewish, or even female.”

Janis,

Mothers and mother-in-laws are not welcomed on any tyoe of honeymoons. Not in person, by phone.or by text.

It’s funny – if you look at panel 3 it’s really obvious what’s going on. Her eyes are looking at the phone, her hand is reaching for it… But we’re so used to strip chars outright telling us what’s happening or aggressively pantomiming it (since strips are printed so small) that we just don’t look for the details. I didn’t get it at first either, had to consciously look at the art in each panel.

doublepaw, that’s what I thought, too….the ah…ah..led me to believe it was a sneeze…..Maybe Ah ha! would have worked better…..

Quite the contrary. The previous strips were for the parents fo the couple, this one is for the couple themselves.