Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 01, 2019

oh, the humanity, huh, Tiffany?

Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. ✨

As reality becomes more and more difficult for Tiff.

Dormitory bathrooms were tough to deal with as I recollect. Even if you have to share a bathroom with a sibling, there is something nice about being able to close a door.

Bets where are you? I bet you have a better idea. Eiffel is out. Tiffany will be better off learning to cope with reality, even Luannverse reality.

Tiffany long term story arch. She’s starting to grow up in a hurry. Job, school, now shared dorm room. Hopefully most of the family fortune is tied up in a trust that Dad taps into for Ann. I’m hoping a year out, Tiffany is putting her time in and lands a well earned internship.

Bernice MUST know how Tiffany will feel about community bathrooms…and yet she perks up for the delivery, bright eyes and broad smile. What is WRONG with you, Bernice??!?

Jeeze! The late Joe Frazier never took such BEATING! No matter what course of action Tiffany takes, Ann WINS.

I’m with Luann1212, on THIS one.

THIS, looks like a job for Bets!

But I fear Greg and Karen may have painted Tiffany in a corner that even Spielberg couldn’t get her out of. :(

Welcome to the real world! C’mon, jump right in; it’ll do ya good!

poor tiffany,the poor little rich girl!!

Something’s wrong… from the outside, the width of the dorm’s wall (notice the door of the next dorm right there nearby) is only 10 feet. But from the inside, it appears to be 18 feet wide. The dorm has only one door, so the second door (as seen from the hall) clearly belongs to a different dorm room. How can Tiff’s proposed new digs be 18’ wide on the inside and 10’ wide on the outside?

Bernice, get tiffany a paper bag, she’s going to have a panic attack in 3….2…..1…..

Waitaminute – Not sure anyone ever had a belt closet that big. Shoes – yes.

Mean mean Ann Eiffel as shown Tiff the real world.

When the super rich finally get to see how the vast majority live, don’t feel sorry for them.

Oh, how the mighty has fallen.

drugs maybe? no doubt they aren’t that hard to get in college i would assume, i’ve never actually gone to college but i’ve heard stories from various people who did do drugs in college. but having said all that i really doubt that is the reason either way it’s a WTF was she thinking?

Well who woulda thought that Tiffany would cut it as a waitress. G &K have made Tiff very interesting lately.

Switching to that room is going to be hard, but if tiffany keeps in mind that the alternative is to live with eiffel, any inconvenience will be nothing!

That “Ah. About that…” with the finger raised and big grin on her face is priceless dialogue. Hilarious, and rounding up for a still more funny punchline. The “sigh” with the black speech bubble is also effective. Good strip today from Evans!

This might just be good for Tiff. Less room to stack up empty pizza boxes. She should not need a big closet, the one in her old room was pretty empty after selling her stuff on Ebay. Now, to see who will be bunking with her.

Hm. Must be a really old dorm. My daughter’s room at Arizona State was a two-person room. It had a small common room, two small bedrooms and a bathroom. My grandson’s room at UNC Charlotte is a four-bed, four-bath apartment. Military dorms that I lived in (until I rated an NCO Dorm) usually one latrine/communal bathroom per bay of ten rooms.

Would this community bathroom look anything like this? https://www.deviantart.com/caligula97030/art/Hard-lesson03-564796857

Roughing it: the Sheraton St Louis version.

Bernice’s room looks nothing like that.

Join the Army, Navy, Marines, or the USAF and you’ll get all the community bathrooms you’d ever want. If you’re in the Army or Marines and in the field they might toss you an “e-tool” and tell you to “cat hole it”.

Bernice wants to be a counselor, right? If I were Bernice, I would hatch a plan with Tiffany. No matter what she has to endure, she MUST NOT show her chagrin. Bernice and Tiffany can talk and laugh about how it will irk ann awful if Tiffany puts on a happy face and doesn’t let ann or anyone else know how bad she feels. Of course, counseling sessions will have to be ongoing because Tiffany will need massive reinforcement.

“But! But! The image I’ve crafted as someone who doesn’t make gross bodily sounds will never survive!”

Finally Bernice knows how to push Tiffany to do things that are difficult but absolutely necessary for her. The “Ann Eiffel button”! Tiffany knows that almost everything is better than living with her. It’s so good to see Bernice be really able to help someone.

It’s the hard of life for us! (Annie)

For some reason, this arc kinda reminds me of “Captains Courageous”…

Ugh. I lived with someone like this my Freshman year. We lived in a quad room. She tried to take over the other three closets and dressers after stuffing her own. She never outgrew this behavior, she’s now divorcing her fourth husband (we are only 40) and doesn’t understand why people keep abandoning her.

You know how you make this hilarious?

If Luann’s parents kicked Luann out for some reason and Tiff and her have to be roomies LOL!!!!!!!!

Maybe she should move back home and wake up her dad on how he is being used by the gold digger.

On her way to G & L’s place…

That wall is bigger on the inside than the outside.

Stop dumping on Bernice. None of you jumped on Bets for talking this way last week. (And yes, karma can be amusing!)

Again, WHY does anyone like her?

It would be intersting to see what would happen if TIFF actually did move back home.

Community bathrooms? That’s gonna be nasty.

Just more proof that my comment yesterday of Tiff’s degree of being spoiled rotten is legit! ;o)

that was about my reaction when I first got to college

Life is tough, Tiff.

I guess I’m one of the few that feel this way but this “comic” strip is taking on all the aspects of a Chi-com “reeducation” camp for Tiffany. Yes, the old Tiffany could be aloof, snarky, petty. But she was also a free spirit and cheerful, not to mention easy on the eyes.

She could make someone’s day. https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2009/11/11 through the 14th.She tries to be helpful to her friends. https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2010/09/27 and https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/03/13.

And in most cases, she gets no respect from her “friends” for what she does do.

So, what are GnK trying to grindingly remake svelte, glamorous, free spirit Tiffany into? Another situationally clueless Luann? Another snarky Bernice? Another uber practical Bets? … What? Just another average, mundane character? Muddling their way through life in Pittsville?

I don’t get the point. I just don’t get it.

See y’all Monday! ♥‿♥

Oh the horror! This one should have been posted yesterday, Halloween.

Although I predicted that Tiffany and her new roommate will hate each other, I hope I’m wrong. Tiffany needs a friend, hopefully one who’s been in the same predicament she’s in and who understands what she’s going through. She’s needed a friend for a long time, and I hope she gets one—a good roommate or a good guy—or both!

Bernice needs to work on striking a balance between giving empathy and dealing with reality. It’s a tightrope, and very difficult to do.

One more reason I never went to college. The problem with the place where I got the electronics degree was everybody was wearing green cloths. But at least they paid us.

I’m sure I’m not the first to say this. Tiffany needs to find herself a “Sugar Daddy” who will take care of her — the way Ann Eiffel did.

Room number is 113. 13, it’s not a good sign, don’t take it Tiff.

A chance to enter the real world is something Tiffany sorely needed. There already are more than enough messes created by spoiled brats with strong senses of personal entitlement and empty “values” which place things like money and celebrity before things and individual which truly matter. Given that she has been showing tender flashes of empathy, a respect for work, and an increasing awareness of the ways that she needs to work harder and grow, I think that Tiffany deserves a chance to join the rest of the world and find fulfilling self-respect rather than empty and repellent self-glorification.

The possibility of seeing such growth and in what ways she succeeds or fails is a story arc that I strongly look forward to following. It has so very many possibilities and is a refuge from certain real world news items.

How about we cut Tiff a break?

She doesn’t have to be rich to be svelte, glamorous, cheerful and a free spirit. Perhaps that’s the lesson at hand here.

Welcome to adult world

Why don’t Tiffany move in with Bernice? They have been friends for over 30 years, every since middle school!

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I find it sad that a lot of folks here are so down on Bernice that they keep seeing in her effort this week…. snarkiness and meanness.

I truly think that Bernice is doing a really nice job at helping Tiffany understand the realities of having to budget finances. Hell, even if Tiffany were to move into the double…. because she can afford it….. she is still WAY BETTER OFF that a whole segment of the population financially.

Bernice is, IMO, just having her see the real differences in terms of college living compared to what Tiffany is used to.

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That said….. communal bathrooms… they are a challenge, I agree. But, one can adapt. For me, when I was in the dorms, the harder aspect for me was dealing with the noise. I tend to be a bit noise sensitive to this day…. so the typical dorm setting….. both with the interior noise from roommates…. AND the general noise from outside the room but from the rest of the dorm complex….. took a LOT of effort and strategizing from me. I used a lot of ear plugs to muffle sound while in the dorm, and I made a lot of plans to study in various locations in the library when I needed more quiet.

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I think, that if Tiffany tires out this smaller living…. she will be able to succeed. Perhaps Bernice should approach it as a variation on the “Tiny House Style” of living that is all the rage for a lot of young folks?

I predicted this a couple days ago. Including Tiffany’s reaction.

To those of you who act like Bernice is enjoying delivering bad news, she is offering an alternative and trying to put a positive spin on it. Tiffany may need help, may have been raised an entitled b***ch, but she has come quite a way.

This is one more possible option to join the real world, and not live in her Barbie playhouse. How horrible for her to face what the majority of people have to. What a terrible turn of events.

I was debating whether to get involved with today’s installment. i like Trilogy’s synopsis, above.

But a question now nagging me is, if Tiffany had a private room, kitchen and bathroom and a suite, a new question arises:

Who the sam hill was doing all her housework?

Surely, not Tiffany.

Not the old Tiffany, at least.

My last year at Auburn was like that at 181 East Glen Street. Right beside a railroad. It was bigger than my beloved Tiffany’s new place, though, about fifteen feet square. A previous dweller had painted a faceless demon on one wall. I finally met someone who knew the artist and found out the demon was faceless because he wasn’t good at faces.

There was a crack in another wall of the concrete block building, probably because of the violent shaking with every passing train.

Good times.

I still think that she should ask Mr. Gray to let her set up a small salon on the premises. She clearly has the skills and a lot of people at the school like her work so she can get a lot of positive reviews immediately.

smh – poor Tiff! Welcome to the real world, darlin’.

OH, THE HUMANITY!

Two words, Tiff: “slit trench”.

Wealth has its advantages, but getting it could be hazardous to your health.

The first Dorm I lived in at college had one Bathroom shared between 4 people in Two Dorm Rooms.

After that semester, I found it worth the extra cost of a Single Dorm room with it’s own bath.

Find some roommates. Find a cheap place off campus; sure it’ll probably be a hovel, but it’ll be a hovel without “dorm rules”. Trust me, those are the times you’ll remember fondly.

Yeesh, even prison cells have their own toilet. Really hoping it turns out Bets lives off campus and just so happens to be looking for a roommate.

Wonder who her new roomie will be….My money’s on that Hair fella. Now wouldn’t that be hilarious??? ;-)

could it be Bernice who will be her roommate?

Just piling up one indignity upon the other, huh, Tiffany?

Grit your teeth, sister! “Sheraton St. Louis” can do this!

I really do feel sorry for Tiffany. This is a big reality check for her. And I do think Berniece is helping more than anyone else has done so far. She is showing Tiffany a glimpse of her new life. And giving her a viable option.