MTIGWAKI, Northern Ontario — Earlier today Elizabeth Patterson delivered a verbal bitch-slapping to potential paramour Paul, who apparently had misrepresented his availability when Patterson found him shacking up with another woman.
"Even though it didn't work out for us, I want you to know that if you ever need a friend..." Elizabeth started, the ellipsis playing on Paul's expectations of a reconciliation.
But it was not to be. "There are some great people here in Mtigwaki," Elizabeth finished, delivering the coup de grâce and turning her back on Paul, both literally and figuratively.
Although his expression was not visible, Paul was undoubtedly crushed by Elizabeth's rejection. The bitter cold of the Canadian winter only served to reinforce his emotional isolation.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth continued her triumphant march away from Paul's residence, secure in the knowledge that some dude with a helicopter totally digs her.
10 comments:
uhhh...what? I don't get it.
Mission accomplished!
In the randomness department, I bow to this poster. (Thanks to 6-4-2).
Oh, you're ever so welcome. And I confess to really enjoying For Better Or For Worse since I was a teenager, even though the strip is really now about the adult kids.
I honestly laughed out loud when I read your Onion-esque story about Elizabeth Patterson. Curiously, it's the only time that strip has been even peripherally related to laughter.
I hope when you say "it's the only time that strip has been even peripherally related to laughter", that your reference to "that strip" means FBoFW, not SoSG...
I was going to do a whole Griddle series on FBOFW.
Now I will have to do a study on "Family Circus."
Stay tuned for my Drabble retrospective!
"Who did the Family Circus retrospective on the SoSG blog?"
"Not Me."
Nice one, Barfy.
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