Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 29, 2014

The former or the latter?

“now we both feel safe. If I fall, I have something soft to land on.”

Has she been watching the commercial where the male senior citizen falls off the ladder and his wife and daughter immediately decide he needs life insurance?

Love need not be logical…

Don’t look up, Janis!

What that first step, it’s a loo loo!

Ever notice the label… “This is not a step.” on the ladder?.THEN WHY IN HECK DOES IT LOOK LIKE ONE?!?!?!?!?

I thought Arlo’s legs suddenly got longer. Then I realized his shoes are colored like his pants in the last panel.

my husband gets up on a ladder sometimes but he gets up higher than just one step. he has a really tall ladder and gets up more than half way and it scares me.

I wear a parachute when I climb a ladder.

Soon after we moved into our subdivision, an older fellow was up on a ladder in his garage after moving in a couple of days earlier, and fell a considerable distance to the cement, injuring his head, among other things. Afterward, you’d see his wife pushing him around in a wheelchair that she had to tie him to. There was a huge battle with the VA – it was in the paper – till they finally let him stay at Bay Pines. It gave me considerable pause about my husband’s getting up on a ladder, but didn’t stop him from doing his mountain goat thing on the roof. He’s slowed down just a bit, now that he’s almost 80.

Almost don’t need a ladder…..

While I was out grocery shopping my retired husband decided to clean the gutters. Five minutes after I came home he fell and broke his leg in two places. He was in a wheelchair and walker for 3 months. I gave the ladder to our son so this wouldn’t happen again.

That would have been much funnier had the ladder not been shown in the first pane.

Neighbor in his late 60’s fell off his ladder while hanging Christmas lights. And to everybody’s stunned disbelief, died. Turns out men are more likely to die in a fall from a ladder than a woman—maybe it’s that top step? Dunno.

Not meMany warnings are obvious after the fact but I did too many stupid things in my earlier youth to want to thin out kindred souls just because they haven’t learned yet.

And you wouldn’t want me thinned out of the gene pool, right?

My dad was changing a lightbulb and standing on that first step, and when he stepped off, he slipped and broke his leg. Surgery, rehab, weeks in a wheelchair; now he walks with a cane. Arlo is just being a jerk, as usual.

I couldn’t figure out what the heck “this is not a step” is supposed to mean. It’s nothing I’ve ever noticed on a ladder. Finally realized it ought to be “Don’t stand on the top step.” Now that makes a lot of sense, and I wouldn’t do it anyway … too teetery and top heavy.

My dad was fuly into Alzheimers and still wanted to fix things. Mom found him at the top of a 20’ ladder, changing a flood lamp. He got down okay, too. Another time, she found that he had nailed placemats to the dining room table, “so they wouldn’t move around.”

That would require the application of a little of the Bard, to wit, “Let’s kill all the lawyers!”

The main reason many dislike lawyers is because the first one they met was the one the ex spouse hired.

Sarcasm lost on Janis

Arlo is facing the wrong direction for his wife’s intention.

It’s actually kinda sweet that she cares that much.