For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 10, 2021

Slow down, Elly! No lunch is worth a car accident! Your tires aren’t even in contact with the road!!

Um… might as well have Elizabeth’s lunch yourself, Elly.

“Oh good! My mom brought some Parmesan cheese for the pizzas! Right mom.”

Good mon would have brought pecorino romano imported cheese.

By the way, when is Pizza Day?

Does the cafeteria accept walk ins, senior style?

Elly’s “today of all days when I have a million things to do” = dropping off her daughter which she does every day and making a stop at the newspaper on the way to the library where she works every day. The only additional item would be dropping her book reviews off at the newspaper, which she also does regularly. Considering the school has been shown on multiple occasions to be within walking distance of the Patterson house, I don’t think this is as much of a hassle as Elly is making it out to be.

Why didn’t Liz tell her Mom this beforehand? It feels like a waste of food

“The best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men . . .”

And it’s even funnier to see her walk right into the school with a package . . . Funny/sad/nostalgic

My mom would have shoved the lunch in the frig and gone about her business as usual.

Well, maybe she will appreciate it… or at least appreciate the effort. Someday. When she’s a Mom.

Typical Mom. And we love it!

Lynn’s Comments:

This reminds me of a story. My friend Mike Peters, who does the wonderful comic strip “Mother Goose and Grimm,” told me that his daughter once left her lunch at home and he decided to take it to the school himself. Knowing she’d be thoroughly embarrassed to see him at the door of her classroom with her lunch in hand…he dressed as Superman. He burst into her class holding out the lunch, cape flying, and shouting, “Superman to the rescue!!” She was speechless…and will tell you today that it was one of the craziest things that had ever happened to her. Needless to say, his daughter never forgot her lunch again!

My mother would never do this. She regarded a forgotten lunch as a lesson. It just went into the fridge, and I’d get it the next day. A soggy sandwich was also part of the lesson.

Now a days, just getting into a locked down school is a real hassle. I’d call the school and they can deliver a message. Charge your school lunch today, or borrow the money from someone. I’ll send the money for it with you tomorrow. I am always looking for ways to get out of extra work to do.

Good thing this is a “toon”. Otherwise not wearing a head covering in windy freezing weather might not go unpunished. Also like the cartoon physics of a van levitating like a maglev train.

It was always controversial when a mom brought a bag of McDonalds to her child for lunch at school, while all the other students ate the school lunch. Now for me, personally when I was in high school back in the 1970s, I remember some great lunches from my school – even now, I still remember those double decker hamburgers.

Michelle Obama is going to like that.

In the United States, many places observe Pi Day on March 14. They give out pie. π Day or Π day

Gee thanks MOM……

CELL PHONES HELP!

Hawaiian?

Appears she forgot to tell mom it is pizza day.

I don’t remember any pizza in any school I went to. Best was eight grade in Wisconsin. At the end of the line had a big container full of sandwitches sometimes peanut butter or honey and they gave you a glass for milk which you went to a dispenser to get all you wanted.

In my school if you rode the bus you could buy a school lunch. If not it was BYOB. I walked further in town than some kids rode the bus. Carried my bag every day. Could buy milk tho…

My youngest is 28 and my life is still like this somewhat. She asks me to do something not realising how far out of my way I have to go to do it and then she doesn’t use what she asked for for a very valid reason.. to her. I need to remind myself to put my needs first.

Grade school. Great big gobs of mystery meat was common. High school less common and if you did not like the menu, go to the snack bar on school grounds right next to the cafeteria for a burger, or across the street for fish and chips.

Thanks Mom! Hug! I hope she said and did that.