Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, November 5, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Daughter avoids mom’s calls after exhausting day at work FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE gym-goers who hog the equipment Dear Abby: My mother calls me while texting, but also to the ones all the time. I answer sometimes, but who carry on extended conversations sometimes I don’t because I feel she while straddling the treadmill, sitting wants to know too much about my on equipment others are waiting to life. use, and failing to wipe away the I work full time with the public. perspiration they dripped on the When I get home, I’m tired. I have machines while they were exercising. talked to people all day long, and I Oh! And let’s not overlook those really don’t feel like entertaining her. Jeanne My mother tends to be negative, Phillips who slather on perfume before going to the gym, despite the fact that as one snotty and, most of the time, offen- Advice sweats the odor is magni¿ed — or sive. If there’s a storm or an accident worse, people who “forget” to use on the news, she calls me repeatedly until I call back. Who wants to call someone deodorant. (Have I covered it all?) Dear Abby: I am 13 and the only job back who acts that way? I try to be positive and upbeat. Sometimes I have is baby-sitting. My brother and his she drains my energy. Do you have any girlfriend ask me to baby-sit their two kids, advice for me? — PXW OII ,Q 7Ke PaFL¿F ages 9 and 6. They haven’t paid me for the Northwest last ¿ve times I’ve watched them. They say Dear Put Off: Yes. Explain to your I should do it for free because it’s my niece mother that at the end of the day you don’t and nephew. have the energy to carry on a lengthy conver- Shouldn’t I get paid? What should I do? sation with her. It wouldn’t be rude; it’s the Shouldn’t they pay me for the other times truth. If she calls because she’s worried that before I watch them again? — Working the bad news she hears in the media could be Teen In Iowa about you, tell her that you have her listed as Dear Teen: If you had another way of someone to contact if there is an emergency. earning money, I would say that, yes, you Continue to be positive and upbeat, and stop should watch your niece and nephew occa- hiding from your mother. sionally without charging. However, if your Dear Abby: Would you PLEASE say a brother and his girlfriend agreed to pay in few words to those discourteous individuals the past and have suddenly stopped, they are in the gym who, even at 6 a.m., think it’s all taking advantage of you. If that’s the case, right to sit on a piece of exercise equipment, you have the right to deny your services until texting, while others wait to complete their you receive what they owe. weight-training workouts and get to work? A word of advice: This will happen less — Ted On The East Coast often if you communicate in advance that you Dear Ted: The ¿rst rule of basic etiquette charge for baby-sitting, how much you want ANYwhere is to show consideration for the to be paid and you expect that to happen at people around you. This applies not only to the time of service. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 5, 1915 With 100 workmen on the job the task of completing the terminal and necessary buildings at Pilot Rock Junction is being rushed as rapidly as possible. Of the men at work about half are employed by the Nettleton, Bruce, Esbach company and half by the railroad company itself. The railroad is doing the track laying work direct and the tracks are now all down though not yet ballasted. A.F. Marion, of the O.-W.R. & N. engineering force, is directing this end of the work. The contracting company is now devoting chief energies to constructing the round house and power house. The excavating work for the power house is now underway and very shortly the building will be started. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 5, 1965 A pair of young Milton-Freewater men have been charged with the burning of an abandoned homestead house and barn on Halloween. Melvin L. Phillips, 23, and Rudy Williams, 21, both of Milton-Freewater, are being held at the Umatilla County Jail under $1,500 bail charged with third degree arson. They are accused of burning down a large two story home and barn located about six miles up the Walla Walla River from Milton-Freewater. The property belongs to Mable Harris and is part of the Harris estate. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 5, 1990 Art instructor Bruce Guiwits and “kindred spirit” Gregg Berlie, an English instructor, are teaching some unique classes at Blue Mountain Community College — classes that center on the computer as the creative tool. Berlie, who was brought to campus four years ago to create a computer writing class, started the ball rolling with his computerized version of Writing 121, a college composi- tion course. Last year, Guiwits led off with a computerized art class that has the students jumping squiggles across computer screens — where they crash into a puddle in the corner. “You wouldn’t believe how destruc- tive they can get,” Guiwits said about some of the drawing assignments. “I could probably open a third or fourth section because there is the demand for it,” he said, although he will probably stay with two sections because “there are other things I would like to teach.” Berlie said he has the same problem — too many students and not enough computers. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 309th day of 2015. There are 56 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 5, 1940, Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in of¿ce as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie. On this date: In 1605, the “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parlia- ment. In 1781, the Continental Congress elected John Hanson of Maryland its chairman, giving him the title of “President of the United States in Congress Assembled.” In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony de¿ed the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by a judge and ¿ned $100, but she never paid the penalty.) In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, incum- bent Republican William Howard Taft and Socialist Eugene V. Debs. In 1935, Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.” In 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Demo- cratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace. In 1974, Democrat Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the ¿rst woman to win a gubernatorial of¿ce without succeeding her husband. In 2009, a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Chris Robinson is 77. Actress Elke Sommer is 75. Singer Art Garfunkel is 74. Actor-play- wright Sam Shepard is 72. Singer Peter Noone is 68. TV personality Kris Jenner is 60. Actor Nestor Serrano is 60. Actress-comedian Mo Gaffney is 57. Actor Robert Patrick is 57. Singer Bryan Adams is 56. Actress Tilda Swinton is 55. Actor Michael Gaston is 53. Actress Tatum O’Neal is 52. Actress Andrea McArdle is 52. Rock singer Angelo Moore (Fishbone) is 50. Actress Judy Reyes is 48. Actor Seth Gilliam is 47. Actor Sam Rockwell is 47. Rock musician Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) is 44. Country singer-musician Ryan Adams is 41. Thought for Today: “Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists — with it all things are possible.” — Ida M. Tarbell, American journalist (1857-1944). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE