A12
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, October 28, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
The staff members don’t
want to date customers
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
his behavior before it is too
Dear Abby: My co-workers
late? (We are both older men.)
and I want to know how to
— Humiliated In Albuquerque
handle customers who ask us
Dear Humiliated: Point out
out. We are an all-female staff
to this person that, more than
at a liquor stor. Our customers
once, he has said or done things
are happy to see us after a long
that made you feel humiliated.
day at work and sometimes mis-
While you’re at it, mention that
interpret our excellent customer
J EANNE
this unpleasant trait is what has
service skills as flirting and ask
P HILLIPS
caused “Tom,” “Dick,” “Harry,”
us out.
ADVICE
“Sleepy” and “Grumpy” to walk
It is sometimes a very uncom-
out of his life. Then tell him you
fortable situation because we are
no longer intend to allow it to
paid to be kind and don’t know
how to say no without causing a loss of happen to you, and if it happens again,
business for our company or possibly you will join the others.
Dear Abby: I am looking for advice
putting ourselves in a dangerous situ-
ation. Can you give us some guidance? about whether I’m violating any ethics
while walking my dogs. I walk my two
— On The Job In Missouri
Dear On The Job: A polite turndown dogs almost every day so the dogs can
to the invitation would be, “Thank you perform their business. I always pick up
for the compliment, but I never date a what they leave behind, as I don’t like
having any dog’s business left on my
customer. It’s against the rules.”
Dear Abby: I have a longtime friend lawn. During these walks, I pass trash
who is an amazing person. He has al- containers on the street that belong to my
most every positive attribute anyone neighbors. Sometimes I place my dog’s
business in their trash containers. Since
could want.
His only flaw is a big one. He lacks my walks are long, it’s not convenient to
empathy and is sometimes very insensi- carry the used bags all the way home. Is
tive. Over the years, on a number of occa- this wrong to do? — Doggy Business
Dear Doggy: What you are doing is
sions, he has said or done things that left
me feeling humiliated. He doesn’t seem a big no-no. Many homeowners feel as
to understand that it isn’t how generous territorial about their trash receptacles
you were to them, people remember how as you do your lawn. If you think I’m ex-
aggerating, let a few of those homeown-
you make them FEEL.
He has few real friends who can tol- ers catch you in the act. Readers, do you
erate him, and some have walked out agree with me? One of my staff members
of his life. I’m on the verge of doing the feels that if the container is on the curb
same thing. How can I get him to change awaiting pickup, there is no harm.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Oct. 28, 1921
No, the smoke curling up from the Blue
Mountains does not come from a forest fire.
It comes from a number of tourists who were
caught on the bad stretch of road between Pend-
leton and La Grande by the present break in the
weather and they are floundering in the mud
with every make of car known to the automotive
industry. The smoke is very blue in appearance
and might be caused by streams of profanity
as the wheels spin in the mud and the car sinks
deeper and deeper. Reports from the moun-
tain state that quite a camp was established last
evening by the travelers who could not turn a
wheel to help themselves out of the mud.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 28, 1971
Construction is expected to begin immedi-
ately on the development of 3,000 acres of Utah
and Idaho Sugar Co. land across the Colum-
bia River from Umatilla. The initial project
calls for delivering Columbia River water to
the southeast corner of the 50,000 acres which
U & I acquired this year from the Prior Land
Co., Yakima, Wash. The U & I development is
being hailed by community leaders as a boost
to the Umatilla economy. The close prox-
imity of the project is expected to mean that
Umatilla area labor and services will be used.
A pumping station will be built on the river
with a penstock capable of pumping 600,000
gallons per minute. Amfac, which has a large
farm development operating immediately west
of Paterson, will be transporting potato crop
into the Hermiston area to be processed at the
Lamb-Weston plant that is due for construction
after the first of the year.
25 Years Ago
Oct. 28, 1996
Pendleton’s largest retail store opened Satur-
day with a nearly full parking lot and stuffed
aisles bulging with all manner of merchan-
dise as eager shoppers got their first peek at
the new Wal-Mart. The 101,000-square-foot
store showed its cornucopia approach to retail,
with a wide variety of departments, an in-house
McDonald’s restaurant and a Tire & Lube
Express. Dozens of blue-smocked employ-
ees darted among the store’s aisles on what
is known as a “soft opening” day. The store,
which plans a grand opening Tuesday with a
ribbon-cutting, was seemingly stocked with
as many employees as it was with wall-to-wall
tires, fishing poles, socks and coffee pots. “I’ve
never seen a store this big before,” said David
Culimore, 16. “Anything you’re looking for,
you could probably get here.”
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Oct. 28, 1886, the
Statue of Liberty, a gift
from the people of France,
was dedicated in New
York Harbor by President
Grover Cleveland.
In 1636, the General
Court of Massachusetts
passed a legislative act
establishing Harvard Col-
lege.
In 1858, Rowland
Hussey Macy opened his
first New York store at
Sixth Avenue and 14th
Street in Manhattan.
In 1914, medical re-
searcher Jonas Salk, who
developed the first suc-
cessful polio vaccine, was
born in New York.
In 1962, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev in-
formed the United States
that he had ordered the
dismantling of missile
bases in Cuba; in return,
the U.S. secretly agreed to
remove nuclear missiles
from U.S. installations in
Turkey.
In 1980, President Jim-
my Carter and Republi-
can presidential nominee
Ronald Reagan faced off
in a nationally broad-
cast, 90-minute debate in
Cleveland.
In 1991, what became
known as “The Perfect
Storm” began forming
hundreds of miles east of
Nova Scotia; lost at sea
during the storm were the
six crew members of the
Andrea Gail, a swordfish-
ing boat from Gloucester,
Massachusetts.
In
1996,
Richard
Jewell,
cleared
of
committing the Olym-
pic park bombing, held
a news conference in
Atlanta in which he
thanked his mother for
standing by him and
lashed out at reporters
and investigators who’d
depicted him as the bomb-
er, who turned out to be
Eric Rudolph.
In 2001, the families
of people killed in the
September 11 terrorist
attack gathered in New
York for a memorial ser-
vice filled with prayer and
song.
In 2002, American
diplomat Laurence Foley
was assassinated in front
of his house in Amman,
Jordan, in the first such
attack on a U.S. diplomat
in decades.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE