The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 07, 2023

The older you are, the shorter you become.

And he doesn’t use CB1 Weight Gainer either.

I resemble that remark!

His hair stopped growing. Doesn’t that count?

That’s life Brutus. Ear and nose hair replaces head hair.

I use to be 5’7", I’m now 5’5"

You are just expanding your horizons.

…and then you started outgrowing

But it’s amazing how long our bodies continue healing. My mother-in-law broke her femur in her mid-nineties, requiring about 90 stitches, and she healed up like a teenager. And when she bent the metal rod they implanted, she healed up another 90 stitches.

I’ve started growing up thru my hair

he went from growing taller and wider to just growing wider. :D

Getting older is mandatory. Maturing is optional.

“I’m growing older but not up My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck Let those winds of time blow over my head I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.” Growing Older But Not Up Jimmy Buffett.

Apparently Gladys’s cooking and the diner food agree with our hero. But beware Brutus – in a few years you’ll not only be growing out you’ll be growing down. I’ve lost well over an inch in height and I was never tall to begin with!

We all do Brutus…we all do………….

Don’t we all, Brutus!

It’s a club so many of us join as we get older, so we are in good company, whether we like it or not. Plus as you get older, our meals are something we look forward to more than earlier in life…..

His hair stopped growing first. Kind of like me…

And then there come point when you start shrinking, just not in areas you want to.

I have heard it phrased, “We stop growing at the ends and start growing in the middle.” Our bones ossify by age 21, so that is when we stop getting taller and start to spread out.

And that’s the in and out of that.

Brutus stopped going out and now he’s growing out…

You got a shout-out in this article on Decades’ Web site: https://www.decades.com/lists/8-comic-strips-everyone-read-in-the-70s

Don’t scare the lad about that growing big ears and nose thing.

You may have to grow old but you don’t have to grow up

Sounds like me.