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East Oregonian
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COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom stays close to married
son through a tracking app
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I have been married
himself. I do not think you should
to my husband for five years. We live
take your mother-in-law on by your-
self. Enlist the help of a licensed
in the same town as my in-laws, and
marriage and family therapist for
for the most part, we get along great.
suggestions about how to create
However, my mother-in-law does
some separation, because that pro-
something that makes me uneasy.
cess may be somewhat complicated.
She uses an app to track my hus-
band. She pressured him into install-
Dear Abby: My relationship with
ing it right before our wedding and
my
boyfriend has been wonder-
Jeanne
ful,
except
for one issue. He wants
has tracked him ever since.
Phillips
us to have a three-way with another
She’ll often text or call him to ask
Advice
woman. Even after I let him know
why he’s going to the store, or what
I’m not bisexual, he has suggested it
he was doing when he was late to
work, etc. Once he tried to remove the app, multiple times. Some of my previous part-
but she quickly noticed and confronted him. ners have suggested this as well, and it has
Abby, I have never seen her so angry! My left me feeling as though I will never be
husband caved and reinstalled it. Since then, enough. I consider it cheating, although they
he says it doesn’t really bother him that she might disagree because I would be involved.
I find this extremely hurtful. I love my
tracks him.
Part of me feels that if he wants to let his boyfriend and don’t want to end the relation-
mother track him, that’s his business. But ship, but I’m afraid I must because I don’t
another part of me feels this is an invasion want to be with someone I can never satisfy
of my privacy as well, since we are together (he has mentioned he plans to propose).
What do you think? I wish he had never
much of the time. It also worries me that he’s
so quick to cave to his mother’s demands, asked me to do this because it feels horrible.
and that he isn’t bothered by such an obvi- If any male readers have insight, I’d love to
ous invasion of privacy.
hear from them as well. — Not Enough
Am I wrong to be upset about this? What
Dear Not Enough: What your boyfriend
can I do to get my mother-in-law to give us has suggested is a common male fantasy. I
can only wonder if he would react the same
some privacy? — Uneasy In Kansas
Dear Uneasy: You’re not wrong. Your way you have if you suggested a threesome
husband should revoke the location per- with him and another man.
mission on the app on his phone or delete
Because this isn’t your cup of tea, you
are right to have refused. What concerns me
it altogether.
What his mother is doing is sick. She is what you think is going to happen if the
is using the tracker as a substitute for the two of you should marry, because this issue
umbilical cord that should have been sev- will not go away once the “I do’s” are over.
ered when her son was born. It’s a huge inva- As you requested, I will let male readers
sion of your and your husband’s privacy.
weigh in on this one, but personally, I think
He is so used to caving in to his mother the time has come to resume your search for
that he doesn’t have the strength to assert Mr. Right.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 28, 1918
Fording the Columbia river with a team
of horses and wagon and taking seven chil-
dren to school in said wagon are some
the supplementary duties of one Umatilla
county “school ma’am.” She is Miss Birdie
Bailey, teacher of the Badger school six
miles from Holdman. Miss Bailey stays on
an island in the Columbia and to reach her
school it is necessary to cross the river. For
her services she receives $210 a month, but
$100 goes for board and room and for feed
for the horses. Miss Bailey was in Pendle-
ton recently getting books from the county
library and declares that her life is full of
excitement, as a runaway by her trusty team
was one of the recent features of a morning
trip to school.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 28, 1968
A federal weather research program is
bringing another job to Pendleton, along with
the possibility of reports of “flying saucers.”
Glen Lee, chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau
facility at Pendleton Airport, said the two-
year program will involve launching of heli-
um-filled balloons that will lift radio trans-
mitters as high as 100,000 feet. The radios
will transmit data on temperature, humidity
and air pressure. The balloons will be six to
eight feet in diameter and will be easily seen
by area residents as they rise into the upper
atmosphere, Lee said. Such balloons have
often been reported as “flying saucers.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 28, 1993
Neighborhood residents, law enforce-
ment officers and schools will be notified
next week when a 29-year-old predatory sex
offender is released from prison. It will be
the first such disclosure in Umatilla County
under the state’s new sex-offender notifica-
tion law, which was passed by the Oregon
Legislature earlier this year. The name of
the offender, who was released from prison
Monday after serving more than 10 years,
will not be released until Nov. 29. But, along
with his name, area residents will learn his
address, a physical description, the type
of car he drives, any conditions or restric-
tions of his post-prison supervision, his pri-
mary and secondary targets, the way he
normally approaches victims and a current
photograph.
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
On Nov. 28, 1943, Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt,
British Prime Minister Win-
ston Churchill and Soviet
leader Josef Stalin began
conferring in Tehran during
World War II.
In 1520, Portuguese nav-
igator Ferdinand Magellan
reached the Pacific Ocean
after passing through the
South American strait that
now bears his name.
In 1861, the Confeder-
ate Congress admitted Mis-
souri as the 12th state of the
Confederacy after Missou-
ri’s disputed secession from
the Union.
In 1905, Sinn Fein) was
founded in Dublin.
In 1909, Sergei Rach-
maninoff’s Piano Concerto
No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 had
its world premiere in New
York, with Rachmaninoff at
the piano.
In 1942, fire engulfed the
Cocoanut Grove nightclub
in Boston, killing 492 peo-
ple in the deadliest nightclub
blaze ever. (The cause of the
rapidly spreading fire, which
began in the basement, is in
dispute; one theory is that a
busboy accidentally ignited
an artificial palm tree while
using a lighted match to fix a
light bulb.)
In 1961, Ernie Davis of
Syracuse University became
the first African-American
to be named winner of the
Heisman Trophy.
In 1964, the United
States launched the space
probe Mariner 4 on a
course toward Mars, which
it flew past in July 1965,
sending back pictures of
the red planet.
In 1975, President Ford
nominated Federal Judge
John Paul Stevens to the U-S
Supreme Court seat vacated
by William O. Douglas.
In 1979, an Air New Zea-
land DC-10 en route to the
South Pole crashed into a
mountain in Antarctica, kill-
ing all 257 people aboard.
In 2001, Enron Corp.,
once the world’s largest
energy trader, collapsed
after would-be rescuer Dyn-
egy Inc. backed out of an
$8.4 billion takeover deal.
(Enron filed for bankruptcy
protection four days later.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Recording executive Berry
Gordy Jr. is 89. Former Sen.
Gary Hart, D-Colo., is 82.
U.S. Commerce Secretary
Wilbur Ross is 81.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE