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Tuesday, December 29, 2020 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian A9 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Discussing sex life with ex is the final straw for wife 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 mar- one will work hardest to protect your interests and proceed from there. ried for 19 years now. A few years Dear Abby: Due to COVID shut- back, I came to know about my hus- ting schools down, my employer is band’s platonic relationship with his now allowing staff to bring their old girlfriend. She lives in a differ- ent state and is married. kids to work if they don’t have My husband has long chats with alternative child care. I bring my her every day about everything, 8-year-old, and I have seen many J eanne including our sex life. I confronted other kids around. Most of them are P hilliPs him and asked him to end their rela- well behaved and don’t cause any ADVICE tionship because knowing that he problems. However, we have a new wants me to do something in bed employee, “Michelle,” who has because his friend does it bothers started bringing her 4-year-old with her. The me a lot. He promised at the time that he child, I’ll call her Autumn, is in her mother’s wouldn’t talk or chat with her anymore, and office, but she’s so loud, she can be heard all I trusted him. the way across the building! I thought surely A few weeks ago, I discovered that he still Michelle would close her office door and con- chats with her every day, and he changed tain Autumn’s “jolly” voice inside her own her name in his contact list to hide his rela- tionship. I feel cheated on, and I want to end area, but she seems perfectly happy to let her daughter make as much noise as she wants. this marriage. Please help me. I don’t want to I don’t understand this. Other parents make a wrong step. — Betrayed in Florida make sure their kids behave and act appro- Dear Betrayed: A couple’s sex life is priately. What can I do to let Michelle and supposed to be private. Your husband and my supervisor know that while yes, she can his supposedly platonic “friend” have both bring her child with her, it’s still her respon- betrayed the trust of their spouses. That he sibility to make sure the kid isn’t creating a would expect you to do something in bed distraction? — Tired Of The Noise that he knows she is doing is substituting Dear Tired Of The Noise: I do not think your body for hers, and frankly, it strikes me it would be prudent to talk about this with as another form of cheating. Obscuring her Michelle, which is sure to make her defen- name in his contact file illustrates that he has sive. You should, however, inform your no intention of ending their relationship. supervisor that because Michelle’s door is You feel cheated on because you have left open, her daughter’s “jolly” voice is cre- been cheated on. It will continue as long as ating a distraction. If it has been causing a you allow it. Because you’re afraid you will problem for you, the chances are it is doing take a wrong step, start quietly gathering all the same for other employees and reducing the financial information you can and talk productivity. with several lawyers before deciding which DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 29, 1920 George Bennett, who says he is a bucka- roo and has broken broncs for the Round-Up association, is leading a man hunt through Umatilla county today, with officers in his pursuit. He broke away from Deputy Sheriff Parker, of Wenatchee, at Rieth early Sunday morning and has not been overtaken. Ben- nett was arrested several days ago at Burns on a warrant from Wenatchee, charging him with cattle rustling. Deputy Parker was sent to return him to the Washington city and he was taking the prisoner to Umatilla on a night train. When the train stopped at Rieth to change engines, the prisoner asked a favor of the guard and, walking to the vestibule of the coach, swung off the train through the open door. Parker notified local officials and the trail was picked up at Rieth and the man traced to Adams. He is reported to be armed. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 29, 1970 A 40-year-old Hermiston father and his teenage daughter, both students at Blue Mountain Community College, have been locked in a serious “scholastic battle” in the fall term of school. Both are winners and were included on the school’s scholas- tic honor roll with grades of 3.5 and bet- ter. When Harold “Deke” Stensrud and his daughter, Elaine, registered at BMCC in the fall, the competition for grades became evi- BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN dent in the family. The mother, Teresa Sten- srud, says now that both members of her family are winners, she feels it is time to call a halt to the competition. She says she did not have a favorite in the struggle. Stensrud, a wire chief at the Hinkle depot of Union Pacific Railroad, is majoring in electronics. His wife says he is a gifted electrician, car- penter and builder. He attends classes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then reports to his job at 4 p.m. and works until midnight. Elaine, 18, the oldest of the five children, is major- ing in accounting. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 29, 1995 An unexpected snowfall caused a flurry of accidents this morning along Interstate 84 from Boardman to Pendleton. The snow compacted on roads and highways caus- ing fender benders and roll-overs from the slippery conditions. The biggest accident occurred around 9 a.m. when an eastbound gas tanker flipped onto the shoulder of I-84, about nine miles west of Pendleton, spilling about 2,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline. Cars and trucks were sliding off the road left and right because of icy conditions in the Hermiston area, but there were no major injuries. The sun peeked through the clouds and the snow in local areas was gone by mid-morning. But worse weather is on the way. Snow is expected to begin falling again by early evening and will turn into freezing rain, coating roadways in ice by morning. TODAY IN HISTORY On Dec. 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them. In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state. In 1939, “The Hunch- back of Notre Dame,” star- ring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara, was released by RKO Radio Pictures. In 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lock- heed L-1011 Tristar, crashed into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard. In 1975, a bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people (it’s never been determined who was responsible). In 1989, dissident and playwright Vaclav Havel assumed the presidency of Czechoslovakia. In 2006, word reached the United States of the exe- cution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (because of the time difference, it was the morning of Dec. 30 in Iraq when the hanging took place). In a statement, President George W. Bush called Saddam’s execution an important milestone on Iraq’s road to democracy. In 2017, Puerto Rico authorities said nearly half of the power customers in the U.S. territory still lacked electricity, more than three months after Hurricane Maria. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Inga Swenson is 88. Singer Marianne Faithfull is 74. Actor Ted Danson is 73. Actor Patricia Clark- son is 61. Comedian Paula Poundstone is 61. Rock singer-musician Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) is 59. Movie director Lilly Wachowski is 53. Actor Jude Law is 48. Actor Maria Dizzia is 46. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE