For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 05, 2020

John. You are a FATHER, not a buddy. Act like one!

men will be men

atta boy dad ! alas. Mike would never buy a bike.

John is sensible enough to know that since Michael will never have enough money to buy a motorcycle, why crush his dream of getting one?

My three sons and I, age 10, 13 and 15 had each a mountain bike and we had great times riding trails in a provincial park.

That is so John! Elly should have known that was going to happen!

Yeah, that was my house. :D

What’s so strange about a father and son talking cars or bikes or any motorized vehicle?

Motorcycles are very practical. They cost almost nothing to fuel up, take up hardly any space, are inexpensive to register. Just be sure you have a helmet & protective clothing. Even in the summer, my husband & I always wore jeans, jackets, helmets, gloves, and boots.

Nothing wrong with a bike just as long as you take a safety class and remember and use what you get taught. All the gear, all the year (Road rash is nowhere near as sexy as they tell you and brain surgery is real expensive). And yes, everyone on the road really is a moron or homicidal, and usually both. Learn and prepare, then enjoy. Just think of it this way – Give yourself all the breaks you can or you’ll suffer all the breaks you get.

Elly figured he’d lay down another NEIN!! NEIN!! NEIN!!

Hospitals call them donor cycles for a reason.

Wise man. A flat know is an invitation for an argument. A conversation is an opportunity to embed a desire for ‘nothing but the best’ which will take years of baby sitting to afford.

Sign in a motorcycle sales room: “Buy your son a motorcycle for his last birthday”

Crotch rocket or bagger?

I was about 12 when the neighbor up the street, who’d been a hippodrome racer in the late ‘30s, and a motorcycle courier in the British Army during WWII, started teaching his son and me how to drive motorcycles. ( He always said that anyone could ride a motorcycle but it took training and skill to drive one. ) I learned on one of his old British Triumphs.

By the time I was ready to get my driver’s license, I was pretty proficient with a motorcycle. My Dad never objected to my owning one – that battle was one waged with my mother. All my Dad ever required regarding my owning a car or a motorcycle was that I pay for everything from purchase to insurance, gas, and repairs.

I did, too. I worked my tail off to get and keep my vehicles.

John likely sees this as one of two ways:

1.) Michael is going through a “born to be wild” phase.

2.) If Michael is serious about this, he needs to save more money, by that time he will have also realized he needs protective gear, motorcycle school, and insurance. At that point he will be older and hopefully more mature.

Looking at Elly in the last panel, it seem that this take place moments after Thanos snapped his fingers.

When I worked in the operating room and we had a bad motorcycle accident, we spent the whole case bad mouthing motorcycles, but we could have an even worse car accident, do the surgery and get in our cars and drive home. Motorcycles have a bad rap for no good reason. Ever see someone burn to death in a motorcycle accident? NO but I’ve seen it in cars, mainly because of the seat belt holding them in the car. All that said, Hubby and I had many thousand safe and fun miles on ours.

SPOILER ALERT:

We have 13 years before we have this same argument with Elizabeth.

I’ve owned a motorcycle since 1967. I was 14. My older son didn’t want to mess with them so I didn’t push. My younger son wanted to ride so I taught him. He has been riding for 10 years with out a problem.

Motorcycle Michael!

So what motorcycles are really about is males vs.females.The anti-crowd can look up an old prizefighter named Lew Jenkins(147 lb.champ 1940-41),who was famous for recklessly riding motorcycles.He once fought with a broken neck.

Any thought I ever had of riding a motorized bike ended when someone showed me the scars on his belly caused by losing control and going through a barb-wire fence! He survived mainly because it was old and rusty – plans were to replace it with new barb-wire the next week! And when in the Army, one man got out early, after going around a corner, and caught foot between foot-rest and curb! (Hard to march left – left – left——)But cars can be dangerous too- near me was a one lane bridge over a canal. It was night, one driver blinded by the light of the other and not familiar to the road hit the banister, with part of it impaling his wife.

If Mom says no, ask Dad!

I don’t recall any students riding motorcycles when I was in school, and I lived where nearly every junior and senior had a car. That was just a few years before this strip initially ran.

Elly needs to make an appointment with the opthamologist. She is squinting like a mole in the first and second panels, then she has hypothyroidism in the fourth panel.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

We used mopeds to get around in the last plant I worked at.

Way to go, Dad…

It’s this sort of thing, a lot more extreme, that messed up my daughter.